CVE-2009-4487

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-4487
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-01-13 20:30:00 UTC
Updated2021-11-10 15:51:00 UTC
Descriptionnginx 0.7.64 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application F5 Nginx 0.7.64 All All All
Application Nginx Nginx All All All All
Application Nginx Nginx 0.7.64 All All All
Application Nginx Nginx All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.ush.it/team/ush/hack_httpd_escape/adv.txt MISC www.ush.it Exploit
nginx Terminal Escape Sequence in Logs Command Injection Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900179 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for nginx 1.16.1
  • 903563 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for nginx (3598)
  • 905774 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for nginx (3598-1)
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