CVE-2009-2699

high Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
8.7%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 7% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: October 13, 2009 (6057 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

Description

The Solaris pollset feature in the Event Port backend in poll/unix/port.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library before 1.3.9, as used in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.2.14 and other products, does not properly handle errors, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via unspecified HTTP requests, related to the prefork and event MPMs.

CWE

CWE-667

Affected Products

apache http serverapache portable runtime

References

🔗 marc.info 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.apache.org 🔗 www.mandriva.com 🔗 www.oracle.com