CVE-2005-0453 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2005-0453?

CVE-2005-0453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Feb 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The buffer_urldecode function in Lighttpd 1.3.7 and earlier does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for CGI and FastCGI scripts via a URL with a %00 (null) character after the file extension.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-0453?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Lighttpd Lighttpd.

How do I fix CVE-2005-0453?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-0453 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2005-0453 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-0453 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2019-11072 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2007-3949 Security feature bypass in n/a High 8.3
• CVE-2007-1870 Null dereference in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2022-30780 Denial of service in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2025-12642 HTTP Header Smuggling via Trailer Merge Medium 6.9

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-574f-8c2v-j6gg.