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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 1, 2024· Updated Mar 25, 2025

Apache HTTP Server weakness with encoded question marks in backreferences

CVE-2024-38474

Description

Substitution encoding issue in mod_rewrite in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier allows attacker to execute scripts in directories permitted by the configuration but not directly reachable by any URL or source disclosure of scripts meant to only to be executed as CGI.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.60, which fixes this issue.

Some RewriteRules that capture and substitute unsafely will now fail unless rewrite flag "UnsafeAllow3F" is specified.

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