Vulnerability in Lighttpd
CVE-2010-0295
lighttpd before 1.4.26, and 1.5.x, allocates a buffer for each read operation that occurs for a request, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by breaking a request into small pieces that are sent at a slow rate.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.121 (96.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.121 · newest: 0.121 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Lighttpd — versions 1.4.17, 1.4.24, 1.4.20
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- blogs.sun.com/security/entry/cve_2010_0295_vulnerability_in
- download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/security/lighttpd-1.4.x_fix_slow_request_dos.pat… (Patch)
- download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/security/lighttpd-1.5_fix_slow_request_dos.patch (Patch)
- download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/security/lighttpd_sa_2010_01.txt (Patch)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041264.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041296.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041307.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory)
- redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2147
- redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/repository/revisions/2710