Remote Code Disclosure Vulnerability in Lighttpd 1.3.7 and Earlier

CVE-2005-0453 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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