CVE-2007-4727
EPSS 18.7%Published: 9/12/2007Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Buffer overflow in the fcgi_env_add function in mod_proxy_backend_fastcgi.c in the mod_fastcgi extension in lighttpd before 1.4.18 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary CGI variables and execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with a long content length, as demonstrated by overwriting the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable, aka a "header overflow."
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/lighttpdfrom 0, < 1.4.18-1