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CVE-2002-1850 — HIGH severity vulnerability (mod_cgi in Apache 2.0.39 and 2.0.40 allows local users and p)

mod_cgi in Apache 2.0.39 and 2.0.40 allows local users and possibly remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and memory consumption) by causing a CGI script to send a large amount of data to stderr, which results in a read/write deadlock between httpd and the CGI script.

CVE IDCVE-2002-1850
SeverityHIGH
CVSS score7.5
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWECWE-667
StatusModified
Published2002-12-31
Last modified2026-04-16
Descriptionmod_cgi in Apache 2.0.39 and 2.0.40 allows local users and possibly remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang and memory consumption) by causing a CGI script to send a large amount of data to stderr, which results in a read/write deadlock between httpd and the CGI script.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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