CVE-2018-11803
subversion: malicious SVN clients can crash mod_dav_svn
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
Review impact separately from score.
Published · January 18, 2019
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
Subversion's mod_dav_svn Apache HTTPD module versions 1.11.0 and 1.10.0 to 1.10.3 will crash after dereferencing an uninitialized pointer if the client omits the root path in a recursive directory listing operation.
Statement
This issue did not affect the versions of subversion as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.
This issue does not affect any Ansible Tower supported versions: 3.2, 3.3 or 3.4, as their system jobs don't use mod_dav_svn module.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference