CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1238

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-11-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-11-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Peter Sandvik's Simple Web Server 0.5.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass access restrictions for files via an HTTP request with a sequence of multiple / (slash) characters such as http://www.example.com///file/.

Affected configurations

• peter sandvik simple web server (<= 0.5.1)

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (3)

  • CWE-161 Improper Neutralization of Multiple Leading Special Elements weakness
  • CWE-41 Improper Resolution of Path Equivalence weakness
  • CWE-50 Path Equivalence: '//multiple/leading/slash' weakness

References