Vulnerability CVE-2004-1946


Published: 2004-04-19   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Format string vulnerability in the PRINT_ERROR function in common.c for Cherokee Web Server 0.4.16 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -C command line argument. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue could be exploited remotely, or if Cherokee is running at escalated privileges. Therefore it might not be a vulnerability.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Cherokee -> Cherokee httpd 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/15924
http://www.nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-03.txt
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=108249818308672&w=2

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