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CVE-2017-9798

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-416 Use After Free
Publication date:
18/09/2017
Last modified:
20/04/2025

Description

Apache httpd allows remote attackers to read secret data from process memory if the Limit directive can be set in a user's .htaccess file, or if httpd.conf has certain misconfigurations, aka Optionsbleed. This affects the Apache HTTP Server through 2.2.34 and 2.4.x through 2.4.27. The attacker sends an unauthenticated OPTIONS HTTP request when attempting to read secret data. This is a use-after-free issue and thus secret data is not always sent, and the specific data depends on many factors including configuration. Exploitation with .htaccess can be blocked with a patch to the ap_limit_section function in server/core.c.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.2.34 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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