RHSA-2020:3958 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: httpd security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · September 30, 2020
Updated · November 2, 2026
Topic
An update for httpd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The httpd packages provide the Apache HTTP Server, a powerful, efficient, and extensible web server.
Security Fix(es):
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httpd: Improper handling of headers in mod_session can allow a remote user to modify session data for CGI applications (CVE-2018-1283)
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httpd: Out of bounds read in mod_cache_socache can allow a remote attacker to cause DoS (CVE-2018-1303)
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httpd: mod_rewrite configurations vulnerable to open redirect (CVE-2020-1927)
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httpd: <FilesMatch> bypass with a trailing newline in the file name (CVE-2017-15715)
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httpd: mod_rewrite potential open redirect (CVE-2019-10098)
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httpd: mod_proxy_ftp use of uninitialized value (CVE-2020-1934)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.