CVE-2020-25691

Summary

CVECVE-2020-25691
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-04-01 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-31 19:19:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in darkhttpd. Invalid error handling allows remote attackers to cause denial-of-service by accessing a file with a large modification date. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-755

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Darkhttpd Project Darkhttpd All All All All
Application Unix4lyfe Darkhttpd All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1893725 – (CVE-2020-25691) CVE-2020-25691 darkhttpd: sending an HTTP GET to a file with large modification date can cause a DoS MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 502558 Alpine Linux Security Update for darkhttpd
  • 503891 Alpine Linux Security Update for darkhttpd
  • 690977 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for darkhttpd (9c399521-5f80-11ed-8ac4-b42e991fc52e)

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