Apache HTTP Server 2.4.53 and earlier may crash or disclose information due to a read beyond bounds in ap_strcmp_match() when provided with an extremely large input buffer. While no code distributed with the server can be coerced into such a call, third-party modules or lua scripts that use ap_strcmp_match() may hypothetically be affected.
CVE-2022-28615
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-06-10. NVD baseline CVSS 9.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.1
- EG Score
- 9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 58EG Risk 58/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity91% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation6.3% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 6.3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 93rd
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.1 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 6.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
June 9, 2022
Last Modified
December 18, 2025
Advisory Details (6)
Auto-updated Aug 1, 2026[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: httpd-2.4.54-3.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YPY2BLEVJWFH34AX77ZJPLD2OOBYR6ND/[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: httpd-2.4.54-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7QUGG2QZWHTITMABFLVXA4DNYUOTPWYQ/Apache HTTP Server 2.4 vulnerabilities - The Apache HTTP Server Project
https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.htmloss-security - CVE-2022-28615: Apache HTTP Server: Read beyond bounds in ap_strcmp_match()
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/06/08/9Apache HTTPD: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-20) — Gentoo security
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-20Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-28615(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2022:8841Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.51 SP1 security update
- RHSA-2022:8840Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.51 SP1 security update
- RHSA-2022:6753Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: httpd24-httpd security and bug fix update
Patch Availability(7)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | apache2-bin (2.4.18-2ubuntu3.17+esm7) @ xenial | 2026-10-23 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | apache2-bin (2.4.52-1ubuntu4.1) @ jammy | 2026-10-23 | ubuntu |
| redhat | patch | 2022-12-08 | redhat |
| redhat | jbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.51-37.el7jbcs | 2022-12-08 | redhat |
| redhat | httpd-0:2.4.53-7.el9 | 2022-11-15 | redhat |
| redhat | httpd:2.4-8070020220725152258.3b9f49c4 | 2022-11-08 | redhat |
| redhat | httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-23.el7.5 | 2022-09-29 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(16 across 16 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
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Alpine:v3.14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.15(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.16(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.17(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.18(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.19(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.20(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.21(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.22(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.23(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.24(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | 2.4.48-3.1 ... 2.4.53-2~bpo10+1 (28 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache2 | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(4)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 28× in last 7d / 64× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 99 of 233 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 134 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-10-23 07:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 07:53 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-23 07:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-22 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-22 07:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 07:19 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-22 07:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-21 06:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 06:46 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 06:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-20 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-20 06:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 06:13 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-20 06:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-19 05:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 05:39 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 05:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-18 05:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 05:05 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 05:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-17 04:29 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-17 04:29 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 04:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-16 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-16 03:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 03:52 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-16 03:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-15 00:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 00:50 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-15 00:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-13 21:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-13 21:18 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 21:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-13 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
- 2026-10-12 18:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 18:42 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4hj9-gjv4-4363 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
- 2026-10-12 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
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- 2026-09-30 15:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-30 15:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 6.3% · 93rd percentile
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- 2026-09-24 20:16 UTCOSV refresh
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