CVE-2001-0462: Spencer Christensen Perl Web Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Perl web server 0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the URL.

Affected products

• Spencer Christensen Perl Web Server: version 0.0.1 only; version 0.0.2 only; version 0.0.3 only; version 0.0.4 only; version 0.0.9 only; version 0.1 only; …

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