CVE-2002-1385: Open Webmail

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

openwebmail_init in Open WebMail 1.81 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via .. (dot dot) sequences in a login name, such as the name provided in the sessionid parameter for openwebmail-abook.pl, which is used to find a configuration file that specifies additional code to be executed.

Affected products

• Open Webmail Open Webmail: version 1.7 only; version 1.8 only; version 1.71 only; version 1.81 only

Published 2002-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.