VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-3169

critical
Published 2017-06-20 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

In Apache httpd 2.2.x before 2.2.33 and 2.4.x before 2.4.26, mod_ssl may dereference a NULL pointer when third-party modules call ap_hook_process_connection() during an HTTP request to an HTTPS port.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.4.25-4
debian debianbullseyefixed2.4.25-4
debian debianforkyfixed2.4.25-4
debian debiansidfixed2.4.25-4
debian debiantrixiefixed2.4.25-4
arch archfixed2.4.26-1
suse slesaffected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachehttp_server2.2.0
apache apachehttp_server2.2.2
apache apachehttp_server2.2.3
apache apachehttp_server2.2.11
apache apachehttp_server2.2.12
apache apachehttp_server2.2.13
apache apachehttp_server2.2.14
apache apachehttp_server2.2.15
apache apachehttp_server2.2.16
apache apachehttp_server2.2.17
apache apachehttp_server2.2.18
apache apachehttp_server2.2.19
apache apachehttp_server2.2.20
apache apachehttp_server2.2.21
apache apachehttp_server2.2.22
apache apachehttp_server2.2.23
apache apachehttp_server2.2.24
apache apachehttp_server2.2.25
apache apachehttp_server2.2.26
apache apachehttp_server2.2.27
apache apachehttp_server2.2.29
apache apachehttp_server2.2.30
apache apachehttp_server2.2.31
apache apachehttp_server2.2.32
apache apachehttp_server2.4.1
apache apachehttp_server2.4.2
apache apachehttp_server2.4.10
apache apachehttp_server2.4.12
apache apachehttp_server2.4.16
apache apachehttp_server2.4.17
apache apachehttp_server2.4.18
apache apachehttp_server2.4.20
apache apachehttp_server2.4.23
apache apachehttp_server2.4.25

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.