vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-11985: Apache: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 7, 2020
Added
Aug 10, 2020
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

IP address spoofing when proxying using mod_remoteip and mod_rewrite 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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-servers-apache
Title
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