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CVE-2007-6404 (GCVE-0-2007-6404)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-12-17 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:02
VLAI
Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in Sergey Lyubka Simple HTTPD (shttpd) 1.38 and earlier on Windows allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in the URI.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484761/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3457 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://osvdb.org/44013 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4700 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26768 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thre… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/shttpd-adv.txt x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2007-12-07 00:00
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