CVE-2026-73636

HIGHPre-NVD 8.18.1—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-01. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 8.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
Trending — Patch released this week
8.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 8.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Authentication bypass by capture-replay in mod_auth_digest in Apache Software Foundation Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x on all platforms allows a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker to replay captured digest authentication credentials via crafted requests that trigger garbage collection of the client's shared memory entry when AuthDigestNonceLifetime is set to 0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.69, which fixes this issue.

CVSS v3
8.1
EG Score
8.1HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
37
EG Risk 37/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity81% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
28th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

October 1, 2026

Last Modified

October 1, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Oct 1, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. Patch available.
generic Patch Available🔴 Active Exploitation

Apache HTTP Server 2.4 vulnerabilities - The Apache HTTP Server Project

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-73636(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhathttpd-main-2.4.69-1.hum12026-10-02redhat

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.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 22× in last 7d / 22× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. 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. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 09:47 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-04 09:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-03 21:42 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-03 21:42 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-03 21:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-10-03 09:37 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-03 09:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-02 21:30 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-02 21:30 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-02 21:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-02 09:25 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-02 09:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-10-01 21:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-01 20:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-10-01 20:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEG score recompute▲ 8.10
  18. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 8.1 · severity → HIGH
  20. 2026-10-01 17:27 UTCNVD update
  21. 2026-10-01 16:28 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-01 16:25 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-73636?
CVE-2026-73636 is a high vulnerability published on October 1, 2026. Authentication bypass by capture-replay in modauthdigest in Apache Software Foundation Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x on all platforms allows a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacker to replay captured digest authentication credentials via crafted requests that trigger garbage collection of the client's…
When was CVE-2026-73636 disclosed?
CVE-2026-73636 was first published on October 1, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-73636 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-73636 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (28th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-73636?
CVE-2026-73636 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.1 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-73636?
A fix for CVE-2026-73636 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-73636 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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