CVE-2007-5825

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in the ws_addarg function in webserver.c in mt-dappd in Firefly Media Server 0.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a stats method action to /xml-rpc with format string specifiers in the (1) username or (2) password portion of base64-encoded data on the "Authorization: Basic" HTTP header line.

Affected products

Firefly Media Server: 0.2.4

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200110
http://secunia.com/advisories/28269
http://secunia.com/advisories/30661
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=98211&release_id=548679
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1597
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-18.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483209/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483214/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26310
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38243
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200110
http://secunia.com/advisories/28269

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