CVE-1999-1177

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1999-12-31 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1177, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

Directory traversal vulnerability in nph-publish before 1.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the pathname for an upload operation.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1177

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N