CVE-2016-4979

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4979
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4979.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4979
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-07-06T14:59:04Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:27Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The Apache HTTP Server 2.4.18 through 2.4.20, when modhttp2 and modssl are enabled, does not properly recognize the "SSLVerifyClient require" directive for HTTP/2 request authorization, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging the ability to send multiple requests over a single connection and aborting a renegotiation.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/httpd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/httpd
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Database specific

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}