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CVE-2003-0899
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
Buffer overflow in defang in libhttpd.c for thttpd 2.21 to 2.23b1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via requests that contain '<' or '>' characters, which trigger the overflow when the characters are expanded to "<" and ">" sequences..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 6.4/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- Partial
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:acme_labs:thttpd:2.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:acme_labs:thttpd:2.21b:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:acme_labs:thttpd:2.23b1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:acme_labs:thttpd:2.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8906
- http://www.texonet.com/advisories/TEXONET-20030908.txt
- http://www.osvdb.org/2729
- http://secunia.com/advisories/10092
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106729188224252&w=2
- https://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-396
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13530