Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 13, 2004· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2004-1678
CVE-2004-1678
Description
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.
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References
4- secunia.com/advisories/12512nvdExploitPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/11160nvdExploitVendor Advisory
- marc.infonvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19712nvd
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