CVE-2002-2144: Free Peers Bearshare

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in BearShare 4.0.5 and 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to read files outside of the web root by hex-encoding the "/" (forward slash) or "." (dot) characters.

Affected products

• Free Peers Bearshare: version 4.0.5 only; version 4.0.6 only

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