CVE-2024-38473: Apache HTTP Server proxy encoding problem

[Eric Covener <covener () apache org>]

Severity: moderate

Affected versions:

- Apache HTTP Server 2.4.0 through 2.4.59

Description:

Encoding problem in mod_proxy in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier allows request URLs with incorrect encoding to 
be sent to backend services, potentially bypassing authentication via crafted requests.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.60, which fixes this issue.

Credit:

Orange Tsai (@orange_8361) from DEVCORE (finder)

References:

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
https://httpd.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38473

Timeline:

2024-04-01: reported