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| Vulnerability ID | VCID-68d6-q8af-83b7 |
| Aliases |
CVE-2004-0942
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| Summary | An issue was discovered where the field length limit was not enforced for certain malicious requests. This could allow a remote attacker who is able to send large amounts of data to a server the ability to cause Apache children to consume proportional amounts of memory, leading to a denial of service. |
| Status | Published |
| Exploitability | 2.0 |
| Weighted Severity | 6.2 |
| Risk | 10.0 |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| There are no known CWE. |
| Reference id | Reference type | URL |
|---|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2004-0942.json | ||
| https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2004-0942 | ||
| https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0942 | ||
| 1617326 | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1617326 | |
| CVE-2004-0942 | https://httpd.apache.org/security/json/CVE-2004-0942.json | |
| OSVDB-11391;CVE-2004-0942 | Exploit | https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/multiple/dos/855.pl |
| RHSA-2004:562 | https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:562 | |
| USN-23-1 | https://usn.ubuntu.com/23-1/ |
| Data source | Exploit-DB |
|---|---|
| Date added | March 3, 2005 |
| Description | Apache 2.0.52 - GET Denial of Service |
| Ransomware campaign use | Known |
| Source publication date | March 4, 2005 |
| Exploit type | dos |
| Platform | multiple |
| Source update date | July 11, 2017 |
| Percentile | 0.98485 |
| EPSS Score | 0.6741 |
| Published At | July 31, 2025, 12:55 p.m. |
| Date | Actor | Action | Source | VulnerableCode Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31T08:28:42.724739+00:00 | Apache HTTPD Importer | Import | https://httpd.apache.org/security/json/CVE-2004-0942.json | 37.0.0 |