CVE-2004-1973

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

DiGi Web Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP GET request that contains a large number of / (slash) characters, which consumes resources when DiGi converts the slashes to \ (backslash) characters.

Affected products

Digi Www Server: compieuw, compieuw-beta1, compieuw-beta2

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108311170018203&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/11490
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Apr/1009957.html
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=234261
http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/DiGiWwwServerC1-adv.txt
http://www.osvdb.org/5702
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10228
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15987
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108311170018203&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/11490
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Apr/1009957.html
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=234261

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