VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-0453

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.72%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-02-16
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

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