CVE-2003-0460 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2003-0460?

CVE-2003-0460 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Http Server, published on 25 Jul 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The rotatelogs program on Apache before 1.3.28, for Windows and OS/2 systems, does not properly ignore certain control characters that are received over the pipe, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0460?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Http Server.

How do I fix CVE-2003-0460?

No fix has been published for CVE-2003-0460 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2003-0460 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-0460 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-qh2g-9c2g-cvcr.