CVE-2007-5984 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Justin Hagstrom AutoIndex PHP Script versions prior to 2.2.4. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by injecting a null byte (%00) into the 'dir' parameter of index.php, leading to excessive CPU and memory consumption due to a recursive calculation error. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.8, indicating easy exploitation over the network with a complete impact on availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:justin_hagstrom:autoindex_php_script:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:justin_hagstrom:autoindex_php_script:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:justin_hagstrom:autoindex_php_script:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:justin_hagstrom:autoindex_php_script:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:justin_hagstrom:autoindex_php_script:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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