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CVE-2007-3949

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-07-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

mod_access.c in lighttpd 1.4.15 ignores trailing / (slash) characters in the URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass url.access-deny settings.

Affected products

• lighttpd: through 1.4.15

References

• http://osvdb.org/38311
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26130
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26158
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26505
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26593
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200708-11.xml
• http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/changeset/1871
• http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1230
• http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1362
• http://www.lighttpd.net/2007/7/24/1-4-16-let-s-ship-it
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/474131/100/0/threaded

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