CVE Catalog

CVE-2002-1850

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

mod_cgi in Apache 2.0.39 and 2.0.40 allows local users and possibly remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and memory consumption) by causing a CGI script to send a large amount of data to stderr, resulting in a read/write deadlock between httpd and the CGI script.

Risk Assessment

The organization may experience downtime of web services and increased resource consumption, which can affect application availability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of Apache to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor logs for potential attack attempts.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

mod_cgi in Apache 2.0.39 and 2.0.40 allows local users and possibly remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and memory consumption) by causing a CGI script to send a large amount of data to stderr, which results in a read/write deadlock between httpd and the CGI script.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS