CVE-2002-0307: Avengers News System

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in ans.pl in Avenger's News System (ANS) 2.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files or execute any Perl program on the system via a .. (dot dot) in the p parameter, which reads the target file and attempts to execute the line using Perl's eval function.

Affected products

• Avengers News System Avengers News System: version 2.01 only; version 2.11 only

Published 2002-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.