CVE-2002-0708: Surfcontrol Superscout Web Filter

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Web Reports Server for SurfControl SuperScout WebFilter allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an HTTP request containing ... (triple dot) sequences.

Affected products

  • Surfcontrol Superscout Web Filter: version 3.0 only; version 3.0.3 only
  • Surfcontrol Web Filter: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2002-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.