CVE-2002-1837: Ids

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The getAlbumToDisplay function in idsShared.pm for Image Display System (IDS) 0.81 allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary directories via ".." sequences in the album parameter, which generates different error messages depending on whether the directory exists or not.

Affected products

• Ids Ids: version 0.8.1 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.