Published: 20/11/2013 Updated: 26/02/2021

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.6 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 4.9

VMScore: 676

Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

lighttpd prior to 1.4.33 does not check the return value of the (1) setuid, (2) setgid, or (3) setgroups functions, which might cause lighttpd to run as root if it is restarted and allows remote malicious users to gain privileges, as demonstrated by multiple calls to the clone function that cause setuid to fail when the user process limit is reached.

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Debian Bug report logs - #729453 lighttpd: multiple security issues Package: lighttpd; Maintainer for lighttpd is Debian QA Group <packages@qadebianorg>; Source for lighttpd is src:lighttpd (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debianorg> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 04:15:01 UTC Severity: seriou ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the lighttpd web server It was discovered that SSL connections with client certificates stopped working after the DSA-2795-1 update of lighttpd An upstream patch has now been applied that provides an appropriate identifier for client certificate verification CVE-2013-4508 It was discovered tha ...

Use-after-free vulnerability in lighttpd before 1433 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via unspecified vectors that trigger FAMMonitorDirectory failures lighttpd before 1434, when SNI is enabled, configures weak SSL ciphers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hijack sessions by inse ...

CWE-264 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/12/4 http://download.lighttpd.net/lighttpd/security/lighttpd_sa_2013_02.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/55682 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00049.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141576815022399&w=2 https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2795 https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10310 http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN37417423/index.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729453 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2795

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