Information Exposure Affecting lighttpd package, versions [,1.4.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.04% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIGHTTPD-2383263
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Mar 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Mar 2008

CVE-2008-1270  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lighttpd to version 1.4.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure mod_userdir in lighttpd 1.4.18 and earlier, when userdir.path is not set, uses a default of $HOME, which might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files, as demonstrated by accessing the ~nobody directory.

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