CVE-2014-0231

Public on 2014-07-20
Modified on 2014-09-19
Description
A denial of service flaw was found in the way httpd's mod_cgid module executed CGI scripts that did not read data from the standard input. A remote attacker could submit a specially crafted request that would cause the httpd child process to hang indefinitely.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 httpd 2014-07-31 ALAS-2014-388 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 httpd24 2014-07-31 ALAS-2014-389 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P