CVE-2000-0039

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2000-0039 · Published 29/12/1999 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2000-0039 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting search intranet (altavista).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.9%, higher than 93.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
search intranet altavista	`= 2.0b= 2.3a`	No fix yet

AltaVista search engine allows remote attackers to read files above the document root via a .. (dot dot) in the query.cgi CGI program.

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