CVE-2010-0295: Lighttpd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 12.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lighttpd before 1.4.26, and 1.5.x, allocates a buffer for each read operation that occurs for a request, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by breaking a request into small pieces that are sent at a slow rate.

Affected products

• Lighttpd Lighttpd: up to and including 1.4.25; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; …

Published 2010-02-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.