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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2002-0661 in the critical feed json

Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache 2.0 through 2.0.39 on Windows, OS2, and Netware allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files…

published 2002-08-10 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0655

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
69.7%
EPSS 69.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in Apache 2.0 through 2.0.39 on Windows, OS2, and Netware allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and execute commands via .. (dot dot) sequences containing \ (backslash) characters.

Patch / fix

  • apache2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0.40

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2002-0661

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21697)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

69.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21697 Apache 2.0 - Encoded Backslash Directory Traversal remote, 2002-08-09

CVSS scores

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

Classification

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.