Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package httpd (opens in a new tab)
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Exploit Maturity
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EPSS
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90.04% (100th percentile)
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- published28 Apr 2025
- disclosed7 Aug 2020
Introduced: 7 Aug 2020
CVE-2020-11984 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream httpd package and not the httpd package as distributed by RHEL.
Apache HTTP server 2.4.32 to 2.4.44 mod_proxy_uwsgi info disclosure and possible RCE
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866563
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11984
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03ee478b3dda3e381fd6189366fa7af97c980d2f602846eef935277d@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r06f0d87ebb6d59ed8379633f36f72f5b1f79cadfda72ede0830b42cf@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r09bb998baee74a2c316446bd1a41ae7f8d7049d09d9ff991471e8775@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2c6083f6a2027914a0f5b54e2a1f4fa98c03f8693b58460911818255@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r34753590ae8e3f2b6af689af4fe84269b592f5fda9f3244fd9abbce8@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3c5c3104813c1c5508b55564b66546933079250a46ce50eee90b2e36@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5debe8f82728a00a4a68bc904dd6c35423bdfc8d601cfb4579f38bf1@%3Cdev.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r623de9b2b2433a87f3f3a15900419fc9c00c77b26936dfea4060f672@%3Cdev.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r76142b8c5119df2178be7c2dba88fde552eedeec37ea993dfce68d1d@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc998b18880df98bafaade071346690c2bc1444adaa1a1ea464b93f0a@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf71eb428714374a6f9ad68952e23611ec7807b029fd6a1b4f5f732d9@%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A2RN46PRBJE7E7OPD4YZX5SVWV5QKGV5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HYVYE2ZERFXDV6RMKK3I5SDSDQLPSEIQ/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00068.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00071.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159009/Apache2-mod_proxy_uwsgi-Incorrect-Request-Handling.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/08/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/08/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/08/8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/08/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/10/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/17/2
- https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03ee478b3dda3e381fd6189366fa7af97c980d2f602846eef935277d%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r06f0d87ebb6d59ed8379633f36f72f5b1f79cadfda72ede0830b42cf%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r09bb998baee74a2c316446bd1a41ae7f8d7049d09d9ff991471e8775%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2c6083f6a2027914a0f5b54e2a1f4fa98c03f8693b58460911818255%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r34753590ae8e3f2b6af689af4fe84269b592f5fda9f3244fd9abbce8%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3c5c3104813c1c5508b55564b66546933079250a46ce50eee90b2e36%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5debe8f82728a00a4a68bc904dd6c35423bdfc8d601cfb4579f38bf1%40%3Cdev.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r623de9b2b2433a87f3f3a15900419fc9c00c77b26936dfea4060f672%40%3Cdev.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r76142b8c5119df2178be7c2dba88fde552eedeec37ea993dfce68d1d%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc998b18880df98bafaade071346690c2bc1444adaa1a1ea464b93f0a%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf71eb428714374a6f9ad68952e23611ec7807b029fd6a1b4f5f732d9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00001.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A2RN46PRBJE7E7OPD4YZX5SVWV5QKGV5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HYVYE2ZERFXDV6RMKK3I5SDSDQLPSEIQ/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-04
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200814-0005/
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