CVE-2011-2900: shttpd

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-2900 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in shttpd. EPSS estimates a 13.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 05-08-2011
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) put_dir function in mongoose.c in Mongoose 3.0, (2) put_dir function in yasslEWS.c in yaSSL Embedded Web Server (yasslEWS) 0.2, and (3) _shttpd_put_dir function in io_dir.c in Simple HTTPD (shttpd) 1.42 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP PUT request, as exploited in the wild in 2011.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.