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Apache HTTPD: CVE-2025-65082: Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 5, 2025
Added
Dec 8, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server through environment variables set via the Apache configuration unexpectedly superseding variables calculated by the server for CGI programs.

This issue affects Apache HTTP Server from 2.4.0 through 2.4.65.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.66 which fixes the issue.

Solution

apache-httpd-upgrade-latest
Title
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