CVE-2024-40898: Apache HTTP Server: SSRF with mod_rewrite in server/vhost context on Windows

[Eric Covener <covener () apache org>]

Severity: important

Affected versions:

- Apache HTTP Server 2.4.0 through 2.4.61

Description:

SSRF in Apache HTTP Server on Windows with mod_rewrite in server/vhost context, allows to potentially leak NTML hashes 
to a malicious server via SSRF and malicious requests.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.62 which fixes this issue.

Credit:

Smi1e (DBAPPSecurity Ltd.) (finder)

References:

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
https://httpd.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40898

Timeline:

2024-07-12: reported