Summary
Apache HTTP Server, with MPM event, worker or prefork, code executing in less-privileged child processes or threads (including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter) could execute code with the privileges of the parent process (usually root) by manipulating the scoreboard.
- Vendor
- Apache
- Product
- HTTP Server
- Added to KEV
- Nov 3, 2021
- Remediation due
- May 3, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- EPSS
- 65.0% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References