CVE-2005-2728
The byte-range filter in Apache 2.0 before 2.0.54 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTTP header with a large Range field.
02 Description
The byte-range filter in Apache 2.0 before 2.0.54 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTTP header with a large Range field.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 10.97% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-08-29 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 22:45Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-08-29
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4f37e4715728cd600466f6d07cba6f8d1d4ec848b2a7e49b27c571f777787d73
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com16705http://secunia.com/advisories/16705
- www.securityfocus.com14660http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14660
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:608http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-608.html
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10017https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10017
- secunia.com16743http://secunia.com/advisories/16743
- secunia.com16753http://secunia.com/advisories/16753
- support.avaya.comhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-081.htm
- lists.trustix.orgTSLSA-2005-0059http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html
- www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2005:051http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_51_apache2.html
- secunia.com17831http://secunia.com/advisories/17831
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-177-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-177-1
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200508-15http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200508-15.xml
- www.securityfocus.comSSRT051251http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428138/100/0/threaded
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comapache-byterange-dos(22006)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22006
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:1246https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1246
- secunia.com16754http://secunia.com/advisories/16754
- secunia.com18333http://secunia.com/advisories/18333
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2005:161http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:161
- patches.sgi.com20060101-01-Uftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U
- securityreason.com604http://securityreason.com/securityalert/604
- secunia.com17923http://secunia.com/advisories/17923
- issues.apache.orghttp://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29962
- secunia.com16789http://secunia.com/advisories/16789
- secunia.com16714http://secunia.com/advisories/16714
- secunia.com16769http://secunia.com/advisories/16769
- secunia.com17036http://secunia.com/advisories/17036
- secunia.com17288http://secunia.com/advisories/17288
- secunia.com16956http://secunia.com/advisories/16956
- secunia.com19072http://secunia.com/advisories/19072
- secunia.com18517http://secunia.com/advisories/18517
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:760https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A760
- secunia.com16746http://secunia.com/advisories/16746
- www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2005:052http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_52_apache2.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-805http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-805
- secunia.com17600http://secunia.com/advisories/17600
- secunia.com16559http://secunia.com/advisories/16559/
- secunia.com18161http://secunia.com/advisories/18161
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:1727https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1727
- sunsolve.sun.com102198http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102198-1
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-0789http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0789
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20190815 svn commit: r1048742 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20190815 svn commit: r1048743 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20200401 svn commit: r1058586 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20200401 svn commit: r1058587 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073139 [1/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1888194 [4/13] - /httpd/site/trunk/content/security/json/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r652fc951306cdeca5a276e2021a34878a76695a9f3cfb6490b4a6840%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073140 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/cvejsontohtml.py security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073143 [2/3] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9e8622254184645bc963a1d47c5d47f6d5a36d6f080d8d2c43b2b142%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073139 [4/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/reb542d2038e9c331506e0cbff881b47e40fbe2bd93ff00979e60cdf7%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073149 [5/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/ security/json/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rafd145ba6cd0a4ced113a5823cdaff45aeb36eb09855b216401c66d6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073149 [1/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/ security/json/https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[httpd-cvs] 20210606 svn commit: r1075470 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/CVE-2020-13938.json security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5001ecf3d6b2bdd0b732e527654248abb264f08390045d30709a92f6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- apache2 Fixed in 2.0.54-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- apache2 Fixed in 2.0.54-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- apache2 Fixed in 2.0.54-5
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.