SB2021021119 - Denial of service in Apache Subversion
Published: February 11, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021021119
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-17525)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference when the Subversion is configured to use in-repository authz rules with the AuthzSVNReposRelativeAccessFile option. A remote non-authenticated attacker can send specially crafted request to a non-existing URL, trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the mod_authz_svn module and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.