CVE-2001-0368: Free Peers Bearshare

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in BearShare 2.2.2 and earlier allows a remote attacker to read certain files via a URL containing a series of . characters, a variation of the .. (dot dot) attack.

Affected products

• Free Peers Bearshare: up to and including 2.2.2; version 2.2 only; version 2.2.1 only

Published 2001-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.