CVE-1999-1456

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1999-12-31 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1456, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

thttpd HTTP server 2.03 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a GET request with more than one leading / (slash) character in the filename.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1456

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N