Apache HTTP Server, in all releases prior to 2.2.32 and 2.4.25, was liberal in the whitespace accepted from requests and sent in response lines and headers. Accepting these different behaviors represented a security concern when httpd participates in any chain of proxies or interacts with back-end application servers, either through mod_proxy or using conventional CGI mechanisms, and may result in request smuggling, response splitting and cache pollution.
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4fe84db67fe9dc906c6185e58bbd9913f4356dd555a5c3db490694e5%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfcb6c7b9e7ca727a7eeeb5f13f89488a03981cfa0e7c3125f18fa239%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
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History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published: 2017-07-27T21:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T17:03:31.158Z

Reserved: 2016-10-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-8743

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-07-27T21:29:00.287

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:36:29.180

Link: CVE-2016-8743

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-12-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-8743 - Bugzilla