CVE-2001-1342

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 30.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2001-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Apache before 1.3.20 on Windows and OS/2 systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (GPF) via an HTTP request for a URI that contains a large number of / (slash) or other characters, which causes certain functions to dereference a null pointer.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: 1.3.12, 1.3.14, 1.3.15, 1.3.16, 1.3.17, 1.3.18 (+1)

References

http://bugs.apache.org/index.cgi/full/7522
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99054258728748&w=2
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/176144
http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/01-05-25
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/6527.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2740
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5419c9ba0951ef73a655362403d12bb8d10fab38274deb3f005816f5%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5f9c22f9c28adbd9f00556059edc7b03a5d5bb71d4bb80257c0d34e4%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb9c9f42dafa25d2f669dac2a536a03f2575bc5ec1be6f480618aee10%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf2f0f3611f937cf6cfb3b4fe4a67f69885855126110e1e3f2fb2728e%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E

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