National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2001-0042
Orirignal release date: 2001-02-16
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    PHP 3.x (PHP3) on Apache 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a modified .. (dot dot) attack containing "%5c" (encoded backslash) sequences.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 3.3 (Low)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: access
    Impact Type: conf

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Apache (Apache Group)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2001-0042