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CVE-2017-15710

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 17.85%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-03-26 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-15710
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
17.85%
Apache

Original Filing — NVD Description

In Apache httpd 2.0.23 to 2.0.65, 2.2.0 to 2.2.34, and 2.4.0 to 2.4.29, mod_authnz_ldap, if configured with AuthLDAPCharsetConfig, uses the Accept-Language header value to lookup the right charset encoding when verifying the user's credentials. If the header value is not present in the charset conversion table, a fallback mechanism is used to truncate it to a two characters value to allow a quick retry (for example, 'en-US' is truncated to 'en'). A header value of less than two characters forces an out of bound write of one NUL byte to a memory location that is not part of the string. In the worst case, quite unlikely, the process would crash which could be used as a Denial of Service attack. In the more likely case, this memory is already reserved for future use and the issue has no effect at all.