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CVE-2007-6420

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the balancer-manager in mod_proxy_balancer for Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Apache — Http ServerCanonical — Ubuntu Linux

CWEs

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      "comment": "Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9.  http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html",
      "lastModified": "2008-07-02T00:00:00",
      "organization": "Apache"
    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org"
}