CVE-2018-14429

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-14429 · Published 14/08/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-14429 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting man-cgi (man-cgi project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.7%, higher than 89.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.16 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
man-cgi man-cgi_project	`< 1.16`	`1.16`

man-cgi before 1.16 allows Local File Inclusion via absolute path traversal, as demonstrated by a cgi-bin/man-cgi?/etc/passwd URI.

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