CVE-2018-16716: Nih Ncbi Toolbox

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A path traversal vulnerability exists in viewcgi.c in the 2.0.7 through 2.2.26 legacy versions of the NCBI ToolBox, which may result in reading of arbitrary files (i.e., significant information disclosure) or file deletion via the nph-viewgif.cgi query string.

Affected products

• Nih Ncbi Toolbox: from 2.0.7, up to and including 2.2.26

Published 2019-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.