CVE-2004-0174

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-05-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-667

Description

Apache 1.4.x before 1.3.30, and 2.0.x before 2.0.49, when using multiple listening sockets on certain platforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked new connections) via a "short-lived connection on a rarely-accessed listening socket."

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: through 2.0.49

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107973894328806&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108066914830552&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108369640424244&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108437852004207&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108731648532365&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/11170
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-22.xml
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101555-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57628-1
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_1.3
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/132110
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:046

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