Our response to
Apache HTTP Server vulnerability CVE-2021-26691:
Overview
This document addresses concerns about ePO and the
Apache HTTP Server vulnerability documented in
CVE-2021-26691.
For details, see
CVE-2021-26691.
Description CVE-2021-26691
In Apache HTTP Server versions
2.4.0–2.4.46, a specially crafted Session Header sent by an origin server could cause a heap overflow.
Research and Conclusions
The ePO Engineering team has reviewed this CVE and determined it to be
not applicable to ePO:
- ePO doesn't handle any user session management in Apache.
- ePO doesn't load the vulnerable mod_session module, which is needed for this function.