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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 55.6%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 55.6%, 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
55.61% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-476
Affected
apache/http server · netapp/cloud backup
Source
security@apache.org
EPSS trend
0%40%80%21 September 2026: 76.65%22 September 2026: 55.61%27 October 2026: 55.61%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 76.6% on 21 September 2026 to 55.6% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.