VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-38475

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-38475

Severity

9

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)

Published

07/01/2024

Created

01/21/2025

Added

01/20/2025

Modified

02/04/2025

Description

Improper escaping of output in mod_rewrite in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier allows an attacker to map URLs to filesystem locations that are permitted to be served by the server but are not intentionally/directly reachable by any URL, resulting in code execution or source code disclosure. Substitutions in server context that use a backreferences or variables as the first segment of the substitution are affected.  Some unsafe RewiteRules will be broken by this change and the rewrite flag "UnsafePrefixStat" can be used to opt back in once ensuring the substitution is appropriately constrained.

Solution(s)

• vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-38475
• CVE - 2024-38475