CVE-2001-0615

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2001-0615 · Published 14/08/2001 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2001-0615 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting freestyle chat (faust informatics).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.7%, higher than 89.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
freestyle chat faust_informatics	`≤ 4.1`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Faust Informatics Freestyle Chat server prior to 4.1 SR3 allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files via a specially crafted URL which includes variations of a '..' (dot dot) attack such as '...' or '....'.

References

archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0241.html · Exploit
osvdb.org/1841
securityfocus.com/bid/2776 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6601

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