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

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