CVE-2002-1042: Netscape Enterprise Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in search engine for iPlanet web server 6.0 SP2 and 4.1 SP9, and Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6, when running on Windows platforms, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ..\ (dot-dot backslash) sequences in the NS-query-pat parameter.

Affected products

• Netscape Enterprise Server: version 3.6 only
• Sun Iplanet Web Server: version 4.1 only
• Sun One Application Server: version 6.0 only
• Sun One Web Server: version 6.0 only

Published 2002-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.