Title : Lighttpd "mod_cgi" Remote Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0763 CVE ID : CVE-2008-1111
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-03-05
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Lighttpd, which could be exploited by remote attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by an error in mod_cgi when the application is unable to fork, which could be exploited by remote attackers to display the source code of arbitrary files instead of an expected HTML response.
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