What is CVE-2018-14429?

CVE-2018-14429 is a high-severity vulnerability in Man-Cgi Project, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-08-14.

How severe is CVE-2018-14429?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Man-Cgi Project

CVE-2018-14429

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

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2018-08-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.037 (89.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.037 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Man-Cgi Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/542208/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
packetstormsecurity.com/files/148855/man-cgi-Local-File-Inclusion.html (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-14429?: CVE-2018-14429 is a high-severity vulnerability in Man-Cgi Project, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-08-14.
How severe is CVE-2018-14429?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.