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HistoryFeb 19, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Internet Bug Bounty: moderate: mod_deflate denial of service

2014-02-1900:00:00
gianko
hackerone.com
$500
95

0.459 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.4%

A resource consumption flaw was found in mod_deflate. If request body decompression was configured (using the “DEFLATE” input filter), a remote attacker could cause the server to consume significant memory and/or CPU resources. The use of request body decompression is not a common configuration.

Acknowledgements: This issue was reported by Giancarlo Pellegrino and Davide Balzarotti

Resolved in Apache httpd 2.4.10-dev: http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html