CVE-1999-1177

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-1999-1177 · Published 31/12/1999 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-1999-1177 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting nph-publish (lincoln d. stein).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.9%, higher than 86.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
nph-publish lincoln_d._stein	`≤ 1.2`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in nph-publish before 1.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the pathname for an upload operation.

References

www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/tools/CGI_scripts/server_publish/nph-publish · Patch
w3.org/Security/Faq/wwwsf4.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/2055

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