CVE-1999-1177 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in nph-publish before 1.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the pathname for an upload operation.

Reference

http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/wwwsf4.html http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/tools/CGI_scripts/server_publish/nph-publish https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2055