CVE-2021-34798: vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server
NULL pointer dereference in httpd core
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15Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 65%
What the vendors declare (VEX)
Official vendor statements in CSAF/VEX format: whether their product is affected, already fixed, or ruled out — and why. These are the vendor's assertions, not Vexday's judgment.
Red HatVEX document ↗
Affected
2 products (13 components)
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
workaround: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example.
Fixed
12 products (333 components)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) · Red Hat JBoss Core Services on RHEL 8 · Red Hat JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 Server · Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) · Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL Workstation(v. 7) · and others 7
Not affected
1 product (12 components) — because the vulnerable code is not present in the product
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Malformed requests may cause the server to dereference a NULL pointer. This issue affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.48 and earlier.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache HTTP ServerRelated CVEs — Apache HTTP Server
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2021-40438CRITICALmod_proxy SSRFEPSS 100.0%KEVCVE-2021-41773HIGHPath traversal and file disclosure vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49EPSS 100.0%KEVCVE-2021-42013CRITICALPath Traversal and Remote Code Execution in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49 and 2.4.50 (incomplete fix of CVE-2021-41773)EPSS 100.0%KEVCVE-2024-38475CRITICALApache HTTP Server weakness in mod_rewrite when first segment of substitution matches filesystem path.EPSS 100.0%KEVCVE-2021-44790—Possible buffer overflow when parsing multipart content in mod_lua of Apache HTTP Server 2.4.51 and earlierEPSS 96.8%CVE-2017-9798—CVE-2017-9798EPSS 94.7%
References
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-685781.pdfhttps://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10379https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3925e167d5eb1c75def3750c155d753064e1d34a143028bb32910432%40%3Cusers.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61fdbfc26ab170f4e6492ef3bd5197c20b862ce156e9d5a54d4b899c%40%3Cusers.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r82838efc5fa6fc4c73986399c9b71573589f78b31846aff5bd9b1697%40%3Cusers.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r82c077663f9759c7df5a6656f925b3ee4f55fcd33c889ba7cd687029%40%3Cusers.httpd.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00001.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SPBR6WUYBJNACHKE65SPL7TJOHX7RHWD/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZNCYSR3BXT36FFF4XTCPL3HDQK4VP45R/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-20https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211008-0004/