Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting apache/httpd package, versions [2.4.30,2.4.66-rc1-candidate)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APACHEHTTPD-14236452
  • published9 Dec 2025
  • disclosed5 Dec 2025
  • creditAisle Research

Introduced: 5 Dec 2025

NewCVE-2025-55753  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apache/httpd to version 2.4.66-rc1-candidate or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound causing improper handling of retry intervals in mod_md. An attacker can cause excessive requests to external ACME services by forcing failures that may reset the backoff counter for renewal attempts to 0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1