CVE-2006-0814

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

response.c in Lighttpd 1.4.10 and possibly previous versions, when run on Windows, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary source code via requests that contain trailing (1) "." (dot) and (2) space characters, which are ignored by Windows, as demonstrated by PHP files.

Affected products

lighttpd: 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3 (+43)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/18886
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-9/advisory/
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/523
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015703
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/1005
http://www.osvdb.org/23542
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426446/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16893
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0782
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24976
http://secunia.com/advisories/18886
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-9/advisory/

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