A vulnerability has been identified in Lighttpd, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by an error when loading "mod_userdir" (not loaded by default) while "userdir.path" is not configured, which could cause userdir requests to be sent to "$HOME", allowing the reading of arbitrary files from the system.
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Vulnerability reported by the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-03-17 : Initial release
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