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CVE-2004-1946

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2004-04-19 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in the PRINT_ERROR function in common.c for Cherokee Web Server 0.4.16 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -C command line argument. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue could be exploited remotely, or if Cherokee is running at escalated privileges. Therefore it might not be a vulnerability.

Affected Platforms

Cherokee Cherokee Httpd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References