PT-2014-6247 · Bozotic · Bozohttpd

Published 2014-07-24 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2014-5015

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions bozotic HTTP server (aka bozohttpd) versions before 20140708

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass the HTTP authentication scheme and access restrictions. This is achieved by exploiting the path truncation when checking .htpasswd restrictions, enabling access to otherwise restricted areas via a long path.

Recommendations For versions before 20140708, update to version 20140708 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-5015

DLA-490-1

Affected Products

Bozohttpd

References · 13

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5015 · Security Note
• ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2014-007.txt.asc · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5015 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5015 · Security Note
• http://eterna.com.au/bozohttpd · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5015 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2014-007.txt.asc · Note
• http://osvdb.org/109283 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94751 · Note
• http://eterna.com.au/bozohttpd/CHANGES · Note
• https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=140572157701095&w=2 · Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/180 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/68752 · Note