7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
67.5%
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.
Author | Note |
---|---|
ratliff | Notes from Debian “The fix is not fully backwards compatible so upstream have created a new option to control this behaviour. Affects: 2.2.0 to 2.4.23.” |
mdeslaur | This fix no longer allows underscores in host names. Debian added a patch to restore the behaviour: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851357 http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/201702.mbox/<20170202125319.GA15948%40redhat.com> The new configuration option doesn’t entirely preserve backwards compatibility: https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60783 |
httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2016-8743
lists.apache.org/thread.html/139862b41c0dfd5e6e00ad89c00119f9faf0dd41a2f927da9c9a4076@%3Cannounce.httpd.apache.org%3E
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8743
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8743
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3279-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3373-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8743
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
67.5%