Vulnerability in Netwin Netauth

CVE-2000-0782

netauth.cgi program in Netwin Netauth 4.2e and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) attack.

Published 2000-10-20 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.077 (94.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.077 · newest: 0.077 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Netwin Netauth

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5090 (vdb-entry)
netwinsite.com/netauth/updates.htm
www.securityfocus.com/bid/1587 (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike (mailing-list)