Title : Lighttpd Extension Handling Remote Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0782 CVE ID : CVE-2006-0814
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-03-01
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Lighttpd, which can be exploited by remote attackers to disclose sensitive information. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "response.c" file when processing a specially crafted filename extension containing dot and space characters, which could be exploited by remote attackers to display the source code of arbitrary scripts (e.g. PHP) instead of an expected HTML response.
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