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CVE-2014-2324

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 29.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in (1) mod_evhost and (2) mod_simple_vhost in lighttpd before 1.4.35 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the host name, related to request_check_hostname.

Affected products

• Contec Sv-Cpt-Mc310 Firmware: before 6.5 — fixed in 6.5
• Debian Linux: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
• lighttpd: before 1.4.35 — fixed in 1.4.35
• Opensuse: 11.4, 12.3, 13.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension: 11-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Contec Sv-Cpt-Mc310 Firmware 6.5; lighttpd 1.4.35. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/security/lighttpd_sa_2014_01.txt
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN37417423/index.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00023.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00006.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141576815022399&w=2
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/561
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/564
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57404
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57514
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2877
• http://www.lighttpd.net/2014/3/12/1.4.35/

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