Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2020-11985 |
CWE-ID | CWE-20 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Apache HTTP Server Server applications / Web servers |
Vendor | Apache Foundation |
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU35776
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1:
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11985
CWE-ID:
CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can spoof the user's IP address when proxying using mod_remoteip and mod_rewrite, as a result the fake IP address will be displayed in logs and will be passed to PHP scripts.
Depending on web application functionality this vulnerability can be used to bypass authorization checks based on IP addresses.
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Vulnerable software versionsApache HTTP Server: 2.4.1 - 2.4.23
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
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Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?