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CVE-2012-5640

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

thttpd has a local DoS vulnerability via specially-crafted .htpasswd files

Affected products

• thttpd: all versions

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/15/1
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5640
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5640
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5640
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/15/1
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5640
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5640
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5640

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