Improper Data Handling Affecting apache/httpd package, versions [,2.4.25)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.86% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APACHEHTTPD-3007421
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jul 2017

CVE-2016-8743  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-19  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apache/httpd to version 2.4.25 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Data Handling. Apache HTTP Server, in all releases prior to 2.2.32 and 2.4.25, was liberal in the whitespace accepted from requests and sent in response lines and headers. Accepting these different behaviors represented a security concern when httpd participates in any chain of proxies or interacts with back-end application servers, either through mod_proxy or using conventional CGI mechanisms, and may result in request smuggling, response splitting and cache pollution.

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