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CVE-2000-0359: Acme Labs Thttpd: Command injection

CVE-2000-0359 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Acme Labs Thttpd. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Buffer overflow in Trivial HTTP (THTTPd) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a long If-Modified-Since header.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
• Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
• Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
• Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
• Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
• Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

• Acme Labs Thttpd: 1.90a; 1.95; 2.0; 2.0.1; 2.0.2; 2.0.3; 2.0.4

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/1626.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_30.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1248