CVE-2013-6438

medium Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
30.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: March 18, 2014 (4441 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

Description

The dav_xml_get_cdata function in main/util.c in the mod_dav module in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.4.8 does not properly remove whitespace characters from CDATA sections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted DAV WRITE request.

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

apache http serveroracle http servercanonical ubuntu linux

References

🔗 advisories.mageia.org 🔗 archives.neohapsis.com 🔗 kb.juniper.net 🔗 lists.apple.com 🔗 marc.info