Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting apache/httpd package, versions [2.4.1,2.4.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APACHEHTTPD-3007406
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-11985  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apache/httpd to version 2.4.24 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. IP address spoofing when proxying using mod_remoteip and mod_rewrite For configurations using proxying with mod_remoteip and certain mod_rewrite rules, an attacker could spoof their IP address for logging and PHP scripts. Note this issue was fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.24 but was retrospectively allocated a low severity CVE in 2020.

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