National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2000-0590)

National Cyber-Alert System Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2000-0590
Orirignal release date: 2000-07-04 Source: US-CERT/NIST ### Overview Poll It 2.0 CGI script allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by specifying the file name in the data_dir parameter. ### Impact CVSS Severity: 8 (High) Range: remote Authentication: design Impact Type: conf,sec_prot other="1" ### Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools External Source: Security Focus Name: BID 1431 Hyperlink: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1431 External Source: ISS X-Force Name: http-cgi-pollit-variable-overwrite(4878) Hyperlink: http://xforce.iss.net/static/4878.php External Source: Bugtraq Name: Vulnerability in Poll_It cgi v2.0 Hyperlink: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0076.html ### Vulnerable Software and Vendor Poll It (CGI-World) Technical Details CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-0590