CVE-2007-6405

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Sergey Lyubka Simple HTTPD (shttpd) 1.38 and earlier on Windows allows remote attackers to download arbitrary CGI programs or scripts via a URI with an appended (1) '+' character, (2) '.' character, (3) %2e sequence (hex-encoded dot), or (4) hex-encoded character greater than 0x7f. NOTE: the %20 vector is already covered by CVE-2007-3407.

Affected products

Shttpd: 1.34, 1.35, 1.38

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/shttpd-adv.txt
http://osvdb.org/44119
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3457
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20071203130540.6e482c20.aluigi%40autistici.org&forum_name=shttpd-general
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484761/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26768
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4700
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/shttpd-adv.txt
http://osvdb.org/44119
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3457
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20071203130540.6e482c20.aluigi%40autistici.org&forum_name=shttpd-general
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484761/100/0/threaded

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