CVE-1999-1412 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-1999-1412?

CVE-1999-1412 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Http Server, published on 12 Sep 2001. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A possible interaction between Apple MacOS X release 1.0 and Apache HTTP server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of HTTP GET requests to CGI programs, which generates a large number of processes.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1412?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apache Http Server, Apple Macos.

How do I fix CVE-1999-1412?

No fix published yet.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-1999-1412 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-1999-1412 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f45g-hj72-h8m6, MINI-cgxv-pf4v-3gh8.