CVE-2012-2687

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 22.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the make_variant_list function in mod_negotiation.c in the mod_negotiation module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x before 2.4.3, when the MultiViews option is enabled, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted filename that is not properly handled during construction of a variant list.

Affected products

Apache HTTP Server: 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.6 (+19)

References

http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00012.html
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201208.mbox/%3C0BFFEA9B-801B-4BAA-9534-56F640268E30%40apache.org%3E
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=136612293908376&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1591.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1592.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1594.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0130.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50894

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