{"id":"CVE-2018-14429","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-14429","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:26:56.941Z","title":"man-cgi before 1.16 allows Local File Inclusion via absolute path traversal, as demonstrated by a cgi-bin/man-cgi?/etc/passwd URI.","description":"man-cgi before 1.16 allows Local File Inclusion via absolute path traversal, as demonstrated by a cgi-bin/man-cgi?/etc/passwd URI.","published":"2018-08-14T18:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:40:59.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["man-cgi project/man-cgi"],"epss":{"score":0.037,"percentile":0.89676,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.70%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148855/man-cgi-Local-File-Inclusion.html","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/542208/100/0/threaded","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148855/man-cgi-Local-File-Inclusion.html","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/542208/100/0/threaded","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14429","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}