THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-12171
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2017-12171

Enterprise Linux vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
8.1%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Enterprise Linux
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-284 — Improper Access Control
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2018-07-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 8.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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