CVE-2007-5654 (GCVE-0-2007-5654)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-10-23 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:39
VLAI
Summary
LiteSpeed Web Server before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to trigger use of an arbitrary MIME type for a file via a "%00." sequence followed by a new extension, as demonstrated by reading PHP source code via requests for .php%00.txt files, aka "Mime Type Injection."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.litespeedtech.com/latest/litespeed-web… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/27302 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://osvdb.org/41867 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26163 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4556 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
Date Public
2007-10-22 00:00
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