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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2000-0705 json

ntop running in web mode allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) attack.

published 2000-10-13 26 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2000-0701

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.0%
EPSS 8.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

ntop running in web mode allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) attack.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2000-0705 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20143)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

7.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20143 Luca Deri ntop 1.2 a7-9 - Unauthorized File Retrieval remote, 2000-08-02
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1550 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0459.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.