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CVE-2002-0307

Directory traversal vulnerability in ans.pl in Avenger's News System (ANS) 2.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files or execute any Perl program on the system via a .. (dot dot) in the p parameter, which reads the target file and attempts to execute the line using Perl's eval function.

Published: May 31, 2002 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (2)

Vendor Product Version
avengers_news_system avengers_news_system 2.01
avengers_news_system avengers_news_system 2.11

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-749h-j9gq-g5p6

Directory traversal vulnerability in ans.pl in Avenger's News System (ANS) 2.11 and earlier...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 7.5 / 10
EPSS Score 2.26%

Top 19% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 30.7 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub