CVE-2017-12171

Published: 26 July 2018

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.

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	caused by rhel 6.9 specific patch

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
apache2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	artful	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	trusty	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	zesty	Ignored (end of life)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Bugs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1493056

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