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>> Lighttpd Extension Handling Remote Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability
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Title : Lighttpd Extension Handling Remote Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0550
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0760
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-02-13
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A vulnerability has been identified in Lighttpd, which can be exploited by remote attackers to disclose sensitive information. This flaw is due to an input validation error when processing specially crafted HTTP requests containing uppercase file extensions (e.g. ".PHP" or ".Php"), which could be exploited by remote attackers to display the source code of arbitrary scripts instead of an expected HTML response.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Schmidt Ryan
ChangeLog
2006-02-13 : Initial release
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