Apache HTTPD: IP address spoofing when proxying using mod_remoteip and mod_rewrite (CVE-2020-11985)
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
08/07/2020
08/10/2020
08/10/2020
01/13/2022
Description
For configurations using proxying with mod_remoteip and certain mod_rewrite rules, an attacker could spoof their IP address for logging and PHP scripts. Note this issue was fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.24 but was retrospectively allocated a low severity CVE in 2020.
Solution(s)
- apache-httpd-upgrade-2_4_25
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