CVE-2000-0039

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1999-12-29 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-0039, 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

AltaVista search engine allows remote attackers to read files above the document root via a .. (dot dot) in the query.cgi CGI program.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-0039

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