CVE-2018-25103 (GCVE-0-2018-25103)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-17 18:02 – Updated: 2025-09-15 20:05
VLAI?
Summary
There exists use-after-free vulnerabilities in lighttpd <= 1.4.50 request parsing which might read from invalid pointers to memory used in the same request, not from other requests.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
References
Credits
Thanks to VDOO Embedded Security part of JFROG for reporting the vulnerability in the If-Modified-Since header with line folding, and thanks to Marcus Wengelin for reporting the vulnerability in the Range header with a specially crafted pair of Range headers.
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Nomenclature
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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