CVE-2000-0039: Altavista Search Intranet

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

AltaVista search engine allows remote attackers to read files above the document root via a .. (dot dot) in the query.cgi CGI program.

Affected products

• Altavista Search Intranet: version 2.0b only; version 2.3a only

Published 1999-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.