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CVE-2017-15710
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 17.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-03-26 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-787
Description
In Apache httpd 2.0.23 to 2.0.65, 2.2.0 to 2.2.34, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.29, mod_authnz_ldap, if configured with AuthLDAPCharsetConfig, uses the Accept-Language header value to lookup the right charset encoding when verifying the user's credentials. If the header value is not present in the charset conversion table, a fallback mechanism is used to truncate it to a two characters value to allow a quick retry (for example, 'en-US' is truncated to 'en'). A header value of less than two characters forces an out of bound write of one NUL byte to a memory location that is not part of the string. In the worst case, quite unlikely, the process would crash which could be used as a Denial of Service attack. In the more likely case, this memory is already reserved for future use and the issue has no effect at all.
Affected products
- Apache HTTP Server: 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.6, 2.4.7 (+13)
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
- Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
- Clustered Data ONTAP: all versions
- NetApp Santricity Cloud Connector: all versions
- NetApp Storage Automation Store: all versions
- NetApp StorageGRID: all versions
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/03/24/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103512
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040569
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0366
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0367
- https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/56c2e7cc9deb1c12a843d0dc251ea7fd3e7e80293cde02fcd65286ba%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/84a3714f0878781f6ed84473d1a503d2cc382277e100450209231830%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r04e89e873d54116a0635ef2f7061c15acc5ed27ef7500997beb65d6f%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r06f0d87ebb6d59ed8379633f36f72f5b1f79cadfda72ede0830b42cf%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6521a7f62276340eabdb3339b2aa9a38c5f59d978497a1f794af53be%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
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