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CVE-2007-4727

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2007-09-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the fcgi_env_add function in mod_proxy_backend_fastcgi.c in the mod_fastcgi extension in lighttpd before 1.4.18 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary CGI variables and execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with a long content length, as demonstrated by overwriting the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable, aka a "header overflow."

Affected Platforms

Lighttpd Lighttpd

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References