CVE-2002-1437: Novell Netware

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the web handler for Perl 5.003 on Novell NetWare 5.1 and NetWare 6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an HTTP request containing "..%5c" (URL-encoded dot-dot backslash) sequences.

Affected products

• Novell Netware: version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only

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