Title: Cherokee HTTPD Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Cherokee is a compact web server which provides fast delivery of web content. It is freely available and distributed under the GPL. It runs on Linux and other Unix systems.
Cherokee web server is prone to an issue which may allow a remote attacker to gain interactive access to the host running it.
Cherokee does not filter shell metacharacters from web requests. It is therefore possible for a remote attacker to submit a malicious web request containing arbitrary commands which will be executed on the shell with the privileges of the webserver process.
Furthermore, another issue is known to exist in Cherokee which increases the impact of this vulnerability to include a potential for remote root compromise.
BugTraq ID 3771, "Cherokee HTTPD Insecure Privilege Release Vulnerability" describes a problem in which Cherokee web server fails to drop root privileges after binding to port 80, causing any commands that are executed by a remote attacker to have much greater consequences.
Affected Products:
- Cherokee Cherokee HTTPD 0.1.0
- Cherokee Cherokee HTTPD 0.1.5
- Cherokee Cherokee HTTPD 0.1.6
- Cherokee Cherokee HTTPD 0.2.0
- Cherokee Cherokee HTTPD 0.2.5
- Cherokee Cherokee HTTPD 0.2.6
References:
- Cherokee: Cherokee Homepage
- VulnWatch: [VulnWatch] Remote Root Hole in Cherokee Webserver
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