Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mod_md  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
97.32% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-MODMD-1893372
  • published1 Nov 2021
  • disclosed29 Sept 2021

Introduced: 29 Sep 2021

CVE-2021-41773  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mod_md package and not the mod_md package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw was found in a change made to path normalization in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49. An attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the directories configured by Alias-like directives. If files outside of these directories are not protected by the usual default configuration "require all denied", these requests can succeed. If CGI scripts are also enabled for these aliased pathes, this could allow for remote code execution. This issue is known to be exploited in the wild. This issue only affects Apache 2.4.49 and not earlier versions. The fix in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.50 was found to be incomplete, see CVE-2021-42013.

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