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CVE-2014-0226

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 85.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-07-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the mod_status module in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.4.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow), or possibly obtain sensitive credential information or execute arbitrary code, via a crafted request that triggers improper scoreboard handling within the status_handler function in modules/generators/mod_status.c and the lua_ap_scoreboard_worker function in modules/lua/lua_request.c.

Affected products

• Apache HTTP Server: from 2.2.0 before 2.2.29; from 2.4.1 before 2.4.10 — fixed in 2.2.29, 2.4.10
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• Oracle Corporation Enterprise Manager Ops Center: 11.1.3, 12.1.4
• Oracle Corporation Oracle HTTP Server: 10.1.3.5.0, 11.1.1.7.0, 12.1.2.0, 12.1.3.0
• Oracle Corporation Secure Global Desktop: 4.63, 4.71, 5.0, 5.1
• Red Hat JBoss EAP: 6.0.0, 6.4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache HTTP Server 2.2.29, 2.4.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0304.html
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0305.html
• http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143403519711434&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143748090628601&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144493176821532&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1019.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1020.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1021.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jul/114

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