CVE-2008-0408 (GCVE-0-2008-0408)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-01-28 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:46
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Summary
HTTP File Server (HFS) before 2.2c allows remote attackers to append arbitrary text to the log file by using the base64 representation of this text during HTTP Basic Authentication.
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