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low 2.6

CVE-2012-5972 json

SpecView Directory Traversal

published 2013-01-17 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-5846

cvss
2.6
version 2.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.0%
EPSS 5.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the web server in SpecView 2.5 build 853 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ... (dot dot dot) in a URI.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-13-011-02 updated cvss 2.6

SpecView Directory Traversal

  • SpecView <=2.5_Build_853
    affected: mitigation “SpecView recommends users download and install the update from their web site which mitigates the vulnerability.”

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-19455)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

5.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-19455 specview 2.5 build 853 - Directory Traversal webapps, 2012-06-29
  • aluigi.altervista.org http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/specview_1-adv.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 2.0 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • SpecView SpecView

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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