CVE-2017-12171
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-26 17:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:28
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
A regression was found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 version of httpd 2.2.15-60, causing comments in the "Allow" and "Deny" configuration lines to be parsed incorrectly. A web administrator could unintentionally allow any client to access a restricted HTTP resource.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101516Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039633Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2972Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12171Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Red Hathttpd
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