CVE-2007-5984

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-11-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

classes/Url.php in Justin Hagstrom AutoIndex PHP Script before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a %00 sequence in the dir parameter to index.php, which triggers an erroneous "recursive calculation."

Affected products

Justin Hagstrom Autoindex Php Script: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+9)

References

http://autoindex.sourceforge.net/change_log.html
http://osvdb.org/45282
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3360
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483592/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26410
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38437
http://autoindex.sourceforge.net/change_log.html
http://osvdb.org/45282
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3360
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483592/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26410
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38437

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