CVE-2007-1863

medium Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
28.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: June 27, 2007 (6896 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

Description

cache_util.c in the mod_cache module in Apache HTTP Server (httpd), when caching is enabled and a threaded Multi-Processing Module (MPM) is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child processing handler crash) via a request with the (1) s-maxage, (2) max-age, (3) min-fresh, or (4) max-stale Cache-Control headers without a value.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

apple mac os x serverapache http server

References

🔗 bugs.gentoo.org 🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 h20000.www2.hp.com 🔗 httpd.apache.org 🔗 httpd.apache.org