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CVE-2005-0453

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2005-02-16 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The buffer_urldecode function in Lighttpd 1.3.7 and earlier does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for CGI and FastCGI scripts via a URL with a %00 (null) character after the file extension.

Affected Platforms

Lighttpd Lighttpd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References