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CVE-2005-0453

Published

19 years ago

Last Modified

15 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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The buffer_urldecode function in Lighttpd 1.3.7 and earlier does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for CGI and FastCGI scripts via a URL with a %00 (null) character after the file extension..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity: Medium
Base Score: 5/10
Exploit Score: 10/10
Access Vector: Network
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication Required: None
Impact Score: 2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Availability Impact: None
Integrity Impact: None

Products Affected

CPE	Affected	Vulnerable	Excluding	Edit
cpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:1.3.7:::::::*	Yes	-	-

References

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/14297