CVE-2007-6405: Shttpd

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sergey Lyubka Simple HTTPD (shttpd) 1.38 and earlier on Windows allows remote attackers to download arbitrary CGI programs or scripts via a URI with an appended (1) '+' character, (2) '.' character, (3) %2e sequence (hex-encoded dot), or (4) hex-encoded character greater than 0x7f. NOTE: the %20 vector is already covered by CVE-2007-3407.

Affected products

• Shttpd Shttpd: version 1.34 only; version 1.35 only; version 1.38 only

Published 2007-12-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.