CVE-2001-1242

HIGH 7.5CVE-2001-1242 · Published 17/07/2001 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2001-1242 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting un-cgi (steve grimm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.0%, higher than 87.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
un-cgi steve_grimm	`= 1.0= 1.1= 1.2= 1.3= 1.4= 1.5= 1.6= 1.6.1= 1.6.2= 1.7= 1.8= 1.9`	No fix yet

Directory traversal vulnerability in Un-CGI 1.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) in an HTML form.

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