Vulnerability in Lighttpd
CVE-2005-0453
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (76.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 76.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Lighttpd — versions 1.3.7
References
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xml (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/14297 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)