CVE-2007-0664

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

thttpd before 2.25b-r6 in Gentoo Linux is started from the system root directory (/) by the Gentoo baselayout 1.12.6 package, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Affected products

Acme Labs Thttpd: through 2.24

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142047
http://osvdb.org/31965
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175949/m-privacy-TightGate-Pro-Code-Execution-Insecure-Permissions.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Nov/13
http://secunia.com/advisories/24018
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-28.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22349
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142047
http://osvdb.org/31965
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175949/m-privacy-TightGate-Pro-Code-Execution-Insecure-Permissions.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Nov/13
http://secunia.com/advisories/24018

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