CVE-2002-0307

Directory traversal vulnerability in ans.pl in Avenger's News System (ANS) 2.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files or execute any Perl program on the system via a .. (dot dot) in the p parameter, which reads the target file and attempts to execute the line using Perl's eval function.

Published: 2002-05-31 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2002-0307 is rated Moderate Risk (56/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.26%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2002-0307

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 4.51% 2.26% -2.25%
2 2025-11-23 5.55% 4.51% -1.04%
3 2025-03-30 5.55%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2002-0307

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2002-0307

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2002-0307

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
avengers_news_system avengers_news_system 2.01 cpe:2.3:a:avengers_news_system:avengers_news_system:2.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
avengers_news_system avengers_news_system 2.11 cpe:2.3:a:avengers_news_system:avengers_news_system:2.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2002-0307

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