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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2010-0408

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

The "ap_proxy_ajp_request" function in "mod_proxy_ajp.c" in "mod_proxy_ajp" in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x prior to 2.2.15 does not properly handle certain situations in which a client sends no request body, which allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service (Backend Server Outage) via a crafted request, related to use of a 500 error code instead of the appropriate 400 error code.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • NONE
  • LOW

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published