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CVE-2007-1869
lighttpd 1.4.12 and 1.4.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (cpu and resource consumption) by disconnecting while…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
lighttpd 1.4.12 and 1.4.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (cpu and resource consumption) by disconnecting while lighttpd is parsing CRLF sequences, which triggers an infinite loop and file descriptor consumption.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
14
- 25613 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-200705-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- ADV-2007-1399 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 24947 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2007:007 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- lighttpd-rnrn-dos(33671) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 24995 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1218 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1303 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 23515 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.lighttpd.net/assets/2007/4/13/lighttpd_sa2007_01.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20070420 FLEA-2007-0011-1: lighttpd (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 25166 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 24886 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-1863 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-1869)Record last updated .