Format String Vulnerability in Cherokee Web Server 0.4.16 and Earlier

CVE-2004-1946 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Format string vulnerability in the PRINT_ERROR function in common.c for Cherokee Web Server 0.4.16 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -C command line argument. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue could be exploited remotely, or if Cherokee is running at escalated privileges. Therefore it might not be a vulnerability.

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