CVE-2003-0156: Cross Referencer Lxr

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Cross-Referencing Linux (LXR) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in the v parameter.

Affected products

• Cross Referencer Lxr: version 0.3 only; version 0.8 only; version 0.9 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only

Published 2003-03-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.