CVE-2002-1593: Apache HTTP Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mod_dav in Apache before 2.0.42 does not properly handle versioning hooks, which may allow remote attackers to kill a child process via a null dereference and cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) in a preforked multi-processing module.

Affected products

• Apache HTTP Server: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.28 only; version 2.0.32 only; version 2.0.35 only; version 2.0.36 only; version 2.0.37 only; …

Published 2002-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.