High severity · published Dec 31, 2002
CVE-2002-1850
mod_cgi in Apache 2.0.39 and 2.0.40 allows local users and possibly remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and memory consumption) by causing a CGI script to send a…
7.5
CVSS
17.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
mod_cgi in Apache 2.0.39 and 2.0.40 allows local users and possibly remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and memory consumption) by causing a CGI script to send a large amount of data to stderr, which results in a read/write deadlock between httpd and the CGI script.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)17.4% · higher than 97% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HS
HTTP Server · Apache
2.0.39; 2.0.40 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1850
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1850
Broken Link
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd-2.0/modules/generators/mod_cgi.c?r1=1.148.2.7&r2=1.148.2.8
Issue Tracking
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10515
Issue Tracking
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22030
Mailing List
http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=103291952019514&w=2
Exploit
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2002/Sep/0253.html
Broken Link
http://securitytracker.com/id?1007823
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