CVE-2006-4248: Acme Labs Thttpd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

thttpd on Debian GNU/Linux, and possibly other distributions, allows local users to create or touch arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the start_thttpd temporary file.

Affected products

Published 2006-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.