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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2002-1593

mod_dav in Apache before 2.0.42 does not properly handle versioning hooks, which may allow remote attackers to kill a child process via a null dereference and cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) in a preforked multi-processing module.

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 7.04%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (7.04%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

mod_dav in Apache before 2.0.42 does not properly handle versioning hooks, which may allow remote attackers to kill a child process via a null dereference and cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) in a preforked multi-processing module.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
7.04% probability · 94th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
apache/http server
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.