Path Traversal Affecting lighttpd package, versions [1.0.2,1.4.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.75% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIGHTTPD-2383264
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Mar 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Mar 2006

CVE-2006-0814  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lighttpd to version 1.4.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Path Traversal response.c in Lighttpd 1.4.10 and possibly previous versions, when run on Windows, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary source code via requests that contain trailing (1) "." (dot) and (2) space characters, which are ignored by Windows, as demonstrated by PHP files.

CVSS Base Scores

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