CVE-2020-11985 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Severity

53%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

23%

IP address spoofing when proxying using mod_remoteip and mod_rewrite For configurations using proxying with mod_remoteip and certain mod_rewrite rules, an attacker could spoof their IP address for logging and PHP scripts. Note this issue was fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.24 but was retrospectively allocated a low severity CVE in 2020.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 4 years ago

2020-08-07 16:15:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-09-03 18:15:00

Affected Software

Apache Software Foundation Apache HTTP Server

References

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

GLSA-202008-04

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-202008-04

Third Party Advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200827-0002/

FEDORA-2020-189a1e6c3e

FEDORA-2020-0d3d3f5072

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