Path Traversal in Specview

CVE-2012-5972

Directory traversal vulnerability in the web server in SpecView 2.5 build 853 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ... (dot dot dot) in a URI.

Published 2013-01-17 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 2.6 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.050 (92.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-08.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.050 · newest: 0.050 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Specview — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-23 — Relative Path Traversal
CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

aluigi.altervista.org/adv/specview_1-adv.txt (Exploit)
www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-13-011-02
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (US Government Resource)