High
Security advisory
A carefully crafted request uri-path can cause mod_proxy_uwsgi to read above the allocated memory and crash (DoS). This issue affects Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.30 to 2.4.48 (inclusive).
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-36160
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A carefully crafted request uri-path can cause mod_proxy_uwsgi to read above the allocated memory and crash (DoS). This issue affects Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.30 to 2.4.48 (inclusive).
osv:CVE-2021-36160
Complete source record
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