CVE-2005-3097

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2005-3097 · Published 28/09/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-3097 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting contribute.cgi (avi alkalay).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 70.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
contribute.cgi avi_alkalay	`= 16_jun_2002`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Avi Alkalay contribute.cgi (aka contribute.pl), dated 16 Jun 2002, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via ".." sequences in the contribdir variable.

References

cirt.net/advisories/alkalay.shtml · Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org/19522 · Exploit

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