RHSA-2021:3754HighCVSS 9.0

Red Hat Security Advisory: httpd24-httpd security update

Published
October 11, 2021
Last Modified
August 8, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2021-40438 — httpd: mod_proxy: SSRF via a crafted request uri-path containing "unix:"

🎯 Affected products38

  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.src as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-debuginfo-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-debuginfo-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-debuginfo-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-debuginfo-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-devel-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-devel-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-devel-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-devel-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-manual-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-manual-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.noarch as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-tools-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-tools-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-tools-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-httpd-tools-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • httpd24-mod_ldap-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-mod_ldap-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-mod_ldap-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-mod_ldap-0:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • httpd24-mod_proxy_html-1:2.4.34-22.el7.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-mod_proxy_html-1:2.4.34-22.el7.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-mod_proxy_html-1:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • httpd24-mod_proxy_html-1:2.4.34-22.el7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon will be restarted automatically. Workaround: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.

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