CVE-2013-6438

httpd: mod_dav denial of service via crafted DAV WRITE request

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · October 3, 2013

Updated · May 15, 2026

Description

The dav_xml_get_cdata function in main/util.c in the mod_dav module in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.4.8 does not properly remove whitespace characters from CDATA sections, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted DAV WRITE request.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer