CVE-2013-4559

Severity

76%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

165%

lighttpd before 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 attackers to gain privileges, as demonstrated by multiple calls to the clone function that cause setuid to fail when the user process limit is reached.

lighttpd before 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 attackers to gain privileges, as demonstrated by multiple calls to the clone function that cause setuid to fail when the user process limit is reached.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-11-20 14:12:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-08 03:03:00

Affected Software

lighttpd 1.4.3

1.4.3

lighttpd 1.4.4

1.4.4

lighttpd 1.4.5

1.4.5

lighttpd 1.4.6

1.4.6

lighttpd 1.4.7

1.4.7

lighttpd 1.4.8

1.4.8

lighttpd 1.4.9

1.4.9

lighttpd 1.4.10

1.4.10

lighttpd 1.4.11

1.4.11

lighttpd 1.4.12

1.4.12

lighttpd 1.4.13

1.4.13

lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.14

1.4.14

lighttpd 1.4.15

1.4.15

lighttpd 1.4.16

1.4.16

lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.17

1.4.17

lighttpd 1.4.18

1.4.18

lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.19

1.4.19

lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.20

1.4.20

lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.21

1.4.21

lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.22

1.4.22

lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.23

1.4.23

lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.24

1.4.24

lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.25

1.4.25

lighttpd lighttpd 1.4.26

1.4.26

Lighttpd 1.4.27

1.4.27

lighttpd 1.4.28

1.4.28

lighttpd 1.4.29

1.4.29

lighttpd 1.4.30

1.4.30

lighttpd 1.4.31

1.4.31

Debian GNU/Linux 6.0

6.0

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Debian Linux 7.1

7.1

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