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🛡️ CVE-2024-38474 — apache

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache HTTP Server weakness with encoded question marks in backreferences

Substitution encoding issue in mod_rewrite in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier allows attacker to execute scripts in

directories permitted by the configuration but not directly reachable by any URL or source disclosure of scripts meant to only to be executed as CGI.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.60, which fixes this issue.

Some RewriteRules that capture and substitute unsafely will now fail unless rewrite flag "UnsafeAllow3F" is specified.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Affected software

CVE-2024-38474 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • apache
  • clustered-data-ontap
  • http-server (from 2.4.0 up to 2.4.60)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 July 2024 and last revised on 20 May 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

httpd.apache.org (Web)
security.netapp.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Other advisories for this package

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CVE-2024-38474 on other distributions

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Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-05-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
apache — —
clustered-data-ontap — —
http-server 2.4.0 2.4.60

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