SUSE CVE-2008-1270

moduserdir in lighttpd 1.4.18 and earlier, when userdir.path is not set, uses a default of $HOME, which might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files, as demonstrated by accessing the nobody directory...

lighttpd: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background lighttpd is a lightweight high-performance web server. Description Julien Cayzax discovered that an insecure default setting exists in moduserdir in lighttpd. When userdir.path is not set the default value used is $HOME. It should be noted that the "nobody" user's $HOME is "/"...