Apache HTTP Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Threat Alert
April 12, 2019
1 Vulnerability Overview
Recently, Apache released a security advisory, announcing remediation of a privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211). Apache HTTP Server running MPM event, worker or, prefork could allow a less-privileged child thread or process (including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter) to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the parent process (usually root) by manipulating the scoreboard. (more…)