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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-8011

By specially crafting HTTP requests, the mod_md challenge handler would dereference a NULL pointer and cause the child process to segfault.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 56.0%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 56.0%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

By specially crafting HTTP requests, the mod_md challenge handler would dereference a NULL pointer and cause the child process to segfault. This could be used to DoS the server. Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.34 (Affected 2.4.33).

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
56.04% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-476
Affected
apache/http server · netapp/cloud backup
Source
security@apache.org

References

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