vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-38473: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 1, 2024
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

Encoding problem in mod_proxy in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier allows request URLs with incorrect encoding to be sent to backend services, potentially bypassing authentication via crafted requests.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.60, which fixes this issue.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-apache2
Title
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