CVE-2009-4489: Cherokee-Project Cherokee

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 9.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

header.c in Cherokee before 0.99.32 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite files, via an HTTP request containing an escape sequence for a terminal emulator.

Affected products

• Cherokee-Project Cherokee: up to and including 0.99.31

Published 2010-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.