peter bassill · operator
$ cve CVE-2004-1678 JSON

CVE-2004-1678 EXPLOIT

5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 7.2% (pctl 94)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in pdesk.cgi in PerlDesk allows remote attackers to read portions of arbitrary files and possibly execute arbitrary Perl modules via ".." sequences terminated by a %00 (null) character in the lang parameter, which can leak portions of the requested files if a compilation error message occurs.

Scoring

CVSS5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS7.18% — more likely to be exploited than 94% of all CVEs
On CISA KEVno
Public exploityes
Published2004-09-13
Last modified2026-06-16

Affected (1)

VendorProduct
logicnowperldesk

Public exploits

References

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