CVE-2007-6420

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the balancer-manager in mod_proxy_balancer for Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: 2.2.0, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6 (+1)
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.10, 8.04

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123376588623823&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31026
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
http://secunia.com/advisories/33797
http://secunia.com/advisories/34219
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-06.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3523
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0966.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486169/100/0/threaded

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