CVE-2002-0842

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in certain third party modifications to mod_dav for logging bad gateway messages (e.g. Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.2) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a destination URI that forces a "502 Bad Gateway" response, which causes the format string specifiers to be returned from dav_lookup_uri() in mod_dav.c, which is then used in a call to ap_log_rerror().

Affected products

Oracle Application Server: 9.0.2

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0076.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104549708626309&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104549708626309&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104549708626309&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104549708626309&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104559446010858&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104560577227981&w=2
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/2003alert52.pdf
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-05.html
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-046.shtml
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11330.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/849993

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