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CVE-2018-14429 (GCVE-0-2018-14429)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-14 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:29
VLAI
Summary
man-cgi before 1.16 allows Local File Inclusion via absolute path traversal, as demonstrated by a cgi-bin/man-cgi?/etc/passwd URI.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-08-08 00:00
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