CVE-2007-6750

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 70.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-12-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The Apache HTTP Server 1.x and 2.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via partial HTTP requests, as demonstrated by Slowloris, related to the lack of the mod_reqtimeout module in versions before 2.2.15.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: through 2.2.14; 1.0, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.5, 1.1, 1.1.1 (+110)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-01/0229.html
http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136612293908376&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21865
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038144
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72345
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05111017
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158380
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19481
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-01/0229.html

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