FreeBSD : lighttpd -- script source disclosure vulnerability (bdad9ada-8a52-11d9-9e53-000a95bc6fae)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19104

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The lighttpd website reports :

In lighttpd 1.3.7 and below it is possible to fetch the source files which should be handled by CGI or FastCGI applications.

The vulnerability is in the handling of urlencoded trailing NUL bytes.
Installations that do not use CGI or FastCGI are not affected.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171

http://www.nessus.org/u?3a881122

http://www.nessus.org/u?fecd5be8

http://www.nessus.org/u?40340c2d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19104

File Name: freebsd_pkg_bdad9ada8a5211d99e53000a95bc6fae.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:lighttpd, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0453

BID: 12567