MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2011-0419

Portable Runtime vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
30.4%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
Stack consumption vulnerability in the fnmatch implementation in apr_fnmatch.c in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library before 1.4.3 and the Apache HTTP Server before 2.2.18, and in fnmatch.c in libc in NetBSD 5.1, OpenBSD 4.8, FreeBSD, Apple Mac OS X 10.6, Oracle Solaris 10, and Android, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via *? sequences in the first argument, as demonstrated by attacks against mod_autoindex in httpd.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Portable Runtime
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2011-05-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 30.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2011-0419

  • Confirm whether Apache Portable Runtime is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-0419.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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