CVE-2017-12171

medium

Description

A regression was found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 version of httpd 2.2.15-60, causing comments in the "Allow" and "Deny" configuration lines to be parsed incorrectly. A web administrator could unintentionally allow any client to access a restricted HTTP resource.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101516

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039633

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2972

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12171

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-07-26

Updated: 2019-10-09

Type: CWE-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Impact Score: 4.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Impact Score: 2.5

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM