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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-1270 to the following vulnerability: mod_userdir in lighttpd 1.4.18 and earlier, when userdir.path is not set, uses a default of $HOME, which might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files, as demonstrated by accessing the ~nobody directory. References: http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/1587 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212930 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2344
Fedora Project does not consider this a security vulnerability. This needs user voluntarily do a senseless and unlike configuration change with a well-documented and expectable effect. We will not issue a security update for this, but will follow upstream change of behavior of directive in question with future versions.