CVE-2005-0453

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-02-16 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

lighttpd: 1.3.7

References

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171
http://secunia.com/advisories/14297
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xml
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171
http://secunia.com/advisories/14297
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xml

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