CVE-2005-2008

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2005-2008 · Published 17/06/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-2008 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting webserver (yaws).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 73.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
webserver yaws	`= 1.50= 1.51= 1.52= 1.53= 1.54= 1.55`	No fix yet

Description

Yaws Webserver 1.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain the source code for yaws scripts via a request to a yaw script with a trailing %00 (null).

References

marc.info
secunia.com/advisories/15740 · Patch
osvdb.org/17375 · Vendor Advisory
yaws.hyber.org/yaws-1.55_to_1.56.patch · Patch

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