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CVE-2012-4001

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-09-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The mod_pagespeed module before 0.10.22.6 for the Apache HTTP Server does not properly verify its host name, which allows remote attackers to trigger HTTP requests to arbitrary hosts via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by requests to intranet servers.

Affected products

• Google Mod Pagespeed: through 0.10.22.4; 0.10.19.1

References

• https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/mod_pagespeed/CVE-2012-4001
• https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/mod_pagespeed/announce-0.10.22.6
• https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/mod_pagespeed/CVE-2012-4001
• https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/mod_pagespeed/announce-0.10.22.6

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