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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-1999-1437 json

ePerl 2.2.12 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly execute certain commands by specifying a full pathname of the tar…

published 1998-07-07 28 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-1418

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

ePerl 2.2.12 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly execute certain commands by specifying a full pathname of the target file as an argument to bar.phtml.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-19120)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

2.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-19120 Ralf S. Engelschall ePerl 2.2.12 - Handling of ISINDEX Query remote, 1998-07-06

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.