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Red Hat: CVE-2025-55753: mod_md: Apache HTTP Server: mod_md (ACME), unintended retry intervals (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 5, 2025
Added
Dec 23, 2025
Modified
Jan 7, 2026

Description

An integer overflow in the case of failed ACME certificate renewal leads, after a number of failures (~30 days in default configurations), to the backoff timer becoming 0. Attempts to renew the certificate then are repeated without delays until it succeeds.

This issue affects Apache HTTP Server: from 2.4.30 before 2.4.66.

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

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