CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16716

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2019-05-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-05-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-22

Description

A path traversal vulnerability exists in viewcgi.c in the 2.0.7 through 2.2.26 legacy versions of the NCBI ToolBox, which may result in reading of arbitrary files (i.e., significant information disclosure) or file deletion via the nph-viewgif.cgi query string.

Affected configurations

• nih ncbi toolbox (>= 2.0.7 <= 2.2.26)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References