CVE-2004-1678: Logicnow Perldesk

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in pdesk.cgi in PerlDesk allows remote attackers to read portions of arbitrary files and possibly execute arbitrary Perl modules via ".." sequences terminated by a %00 (null) character in the lang parameter, which can leak portions of the requested files if a compilation error message occurs.

Affected products

• Logicnow Perldesk: any version

Published 2004-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.