CVE-2009-4494

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 13, 2010
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Dec 30, 2009

Description

AOLserver 4.5.1 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

37712vdb-entry
http://www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt
20100110 Nginx, Varnish, Cherokee, thttpd, mini-httpd, WEBrick, Orion, AOLserver, Yaws and Boa log escape sequence injectionmailing-list

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