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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-07-03 07:17

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

Apache HTTP Server proxy encoding problem

Details

Encoding problem in mod_proxy in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier allows request URLs with incorrect encoding to be sent to backend services, potentially bypassing authentication via crafted requests. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.60, which fixes this issue.

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  "published": "2024-07-03T07:17:33.455Z",
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CVE-2024-38473 (GCVE-0-2024-38473)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-01 18:14 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:53

Title

Apache HTTP Server proxy encoding problem

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Assigner

apache

References

URL

Tags

	https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities…	vendor-advisory
	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024071…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Apache Software Foundation	Apache HTTP Server	Affected: 2.4.0 , ≤ 2.4.59 (semver)

Credits

Orange Tsai (@orange_8361) from DEVCORE

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Sightings

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2024-38473 (GCVE-0-2024-38473)

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