CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-1742

3.7 LOW Published 2007-04-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-04-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.7 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

suexec in Apache HTTP Server (httpd) 2.2.3 uses a partial comparison for verifying whether the current directory is within the document root, which might allow local users to perform unauthorized operations on incorrect directories, as demonstrated using "html_backup" and "htmleditor" under an "html" directory. NOTE: the researcher, who is reliable, claims that the vendor disputes the issue because "the attacks described rely on an insecure server configuration" in which the user "has write access to the document root."

Affected configurations

• apache http server 2.2.3

References