CVE-2001-0925

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 75.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2001-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The default installation of Apache before 1.3.19 allows remote attackers to list directories instead of the multiview index.html file via an HTTP request for a path that contains many / (slash) characters, which causes the path to be mishandled by (1) mod_negotiation, (2) mod_dir, or (3) mod_autoindex.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: 1.3.11, 1.3.12, 1.3.14, 1.3.17
Debian Linux: 2.2

References

http://www.apacheweek.com/features/security-13
http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-067
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-077.php3
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-1452.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/168497
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/178066
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/193081
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2503
http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1&start=2002-01-27&end=2002-02-02&mid=199857&threads=1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6921
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5419c9ba0951ef73a655362403d12bb8d10fab38274deb3f005816f5%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

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