CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1417

7.5 HIGH Published 1998-08-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-08-23
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Format string vulnerability in AnswerBook2 (AB2) web server dwhttpd 3.1a4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary commands via encoded % characters in an HTTP request, which is improperly logged.

Affected configurations

• inso answerbook2

References