CVE-2017-12171

Public on 2017-11-02
Modified on 2017-11-03
Description
A regression was found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 version of httpd, causing comments in the "Allow" and "Deny" configuration lines to be parsed incorrectly. A web administrator could unintentionally allow any client to access a restricted HTTP resource.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 httpd 2017-11-02 ALAS-2017-921 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N