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CVE-2004-1678

Directory traversal vulnerability in pdesk.cgi in PerlDesk allows remote attackers to read portions of arbitrary files and possibly execute arbitrary Perl modules via ".." sequences terminated by a %00 (null) character in the lang parameter, which can leak portions of the requested files if a compilation error message occurs.

Published: Sep 13, 2004 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

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Affected Products (1)

Vendor Product Version
logicnow perldesk *

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-hq49-5fpc-c85q

Directory traversal vulnerability in pdesk.cgi in PerlDesk allows remote attackers to read...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 5.0 / 10
EPSS Score 7.18%

Top 6% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 22.2 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub