CVE-2008-4359

2008-10-0300:00:00

ubuntu.com

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

Access Complexity

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.01 Low

EPSS

Percentile

83.8%

JSON

lighttpd before 1.4.20 compares URIs to patterns in the (1) url.redirect
and (2) url.rewrite configuration settings before performing URL decoding,
which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions,
and obtain sensitive information or possibly modify data.

Bugs

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/lighttpd/+bug/279490>

Notes

Author	Note
jdstrand	according to http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/show/1720, the upstream patch has been reverted due to too many regressions. As such, future versions will need to be checked to ensure it is fixed