CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1946

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2004-04-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-04-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• cherokee cherokee httpd 0.4.16

References