CVE-2002-1417: Novell Netware

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 16.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Novell NetBasic Scripting Server (NSN) for Netware 5.1 and 6, and Novell Small Business Suite 5.1 and 6, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a URL containing a "..%5c" sequence (modified dot-dot), which is mapped to the directory separator.

Affected products

• Novell Netware: version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only
• Novell Small Business Suite: version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2003-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.