CVE-2018-16716

A path traversal vulnerability exists in viewcgi.c in the 2.0.7 through 2.2.26 legacy versions of the NCBI ToolBox, which may result in reading of arbitrary files (i.e., significant information disclosure) or file deletion via the nph-viewgif.cgi query string.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.1 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2019-05-02

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Ncbi Toolbox (Nih)

References

• https://github.com/grymer/CVE/blob/master/CVE-2018-16716.md