CVE-2002-0061: Apache HTTP Server

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 50.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache for Win32 before 1.3.24, and 2.0.x before 2.0.34-beta, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters (a | pipe character) provided as arguments to batch (.bat) or .cmd scripts, which are sent unfiltered to the shell interpreter, typically cmd.exe.

Affected products

• Apache HTTP Server: before 1.3.24 (fixed in 1.3.24); from 2.0.0, before 2.0.34 (fixed in 2.0.34)

Published 2002-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.