PT-2004-2843 · Cherokee · Cherokee Web Server

Published 2004-04-19 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2004-1946

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cherokee Web Server versions 0.4.16 and earlier

Description A format string issue in the PRINT ERROR function in common.c allows local users to potentially execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the command line argument. The extent of exploitation, including remote exploitability and privilege escalation, is unclear.

Recommendations For Cherokee Web Server versions 0.4.16 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-1946

Affected Products

Cherokee Web Server

References · 5

• 🔥 http://nosystem.com.ar/advisories/advisory-03.txt · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-1946 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108249818308672&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15924 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1946 · Note