CVE-2007-5654

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 41.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-10-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

LiteSpeed Web Server before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to trigger use of an arbitrary MIME type for a file via a "%00." sequence followed by a new extension, as demonstrated by reading PHP source code via requests for .php%00.txt files, aka "Mime Type Injection."

Affected products

LiteSpeed Technologies Litespeed Web Server: through 3.2.3

References

http://osvdb.org/41867
http://secunia.com/advisories/27302
http://www.litespeedtech.com/latest/litespeed-web-server-3.2.4-released.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26163
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37380
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4556
http://osvdb.org/41867
http://secunia.com/advisories/27302
http://www.litespeedtech.com/latest/litespeed-web-server-3.2.4-released.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26163
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37380
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4556

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