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CVE-2007-6514

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—💥 Exploit

Apache HTTP Server, when running on Linux with a document root on a Windows share mounted using smbfs, allows remote attackers to obtain unprocessed content such as source files for .php programs via a trailing "\" (backslash), which is not handled by the intended AddType directive.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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💥 Public exploits

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Affected technologies (1)

Apache — Http Server

CWEs

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