CVE-2005-0453

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/14297Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/14297Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 16, 2005
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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