CVE-2005-0453

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.017 · 77 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.72% (77th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USLLM-inferred

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
lighttpd lighttpd= 1.3.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:lighttpd:lighttpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2005-02-16modified 2026-06-16

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171 enisa_euvd
http://secunia.com/advisories/14297 enisa_euvd
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xml enisa_euvd
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lighttpd/1171PatchVendor Advisorynvd
http://secunia.com/advisories/14297PatchVendor Advisorynvd
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-21.xmlPatchVendor Advisorynvd

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