CVE-2004-1946: Cherokee Httpd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in the PRINT_ERROR function in common.c for Cherokee Web Server 0.4.16 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -C command line argument. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue could be exploited remotely, or if Cherokee is running at escalated privileges. Therefore it might not be a vulnerability.

Affected products

• Cherokee Cherokee Httpd: version 0.4.16 only

Published 2004-04-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.