CVE-2005-4421

HIGH 7.5CVE-2005-4421 · Published 20/12/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-4421 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting dev-editor (dev-editor).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 75.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dev-editor dev-editor	`= 2.0= 2.1= 2.1a= 2.2a= 2.3= 2.3.1= 2.3.2= 3.0`	No fix yet

Dev-Editor 3.0 allows remote attackers to access any directory outside the web root whose name is a substring of the web root directory name.

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