CVE-2007-1869: Lighttpd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lighttpd 1.4.12 and 1.4.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (cpu and resource consumption) by disconnecting while lighttpd is parsing CRLF sequences, which triggers an infinite loop and file descriptor consumption.

Affected products

• Lighttpd Lighttpd: version 1.4.12 only; version 1.4.13 only

Published 2007-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.