CVE-2007-1742
Published Apr 13, 2007
Last updated a year ago
Overview
- 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."
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 3.7
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 1.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Vendor comments
- Red HatThese attacks are reliant on an insecure configuration of the server - that the user the server runs as has write access to the document root. The suexec security model is not intented to protect against privilege escalation in such a configuration
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "F519633F-AB68-495A-B85E-FD41F9F752CA"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]