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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2026-63686

Apache HTTP Server: mod_xml2enc crash on charset conversion failure

Description

A NULL pointer dereference in mod_xml2enc in Apache Software Foundation Apache HTTP Server before 2.4.69 on all platforms allows an untrusted backend server to cause a denial of service via a proxied response with a charset whose conversion partially succeeds then fails. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.69, which fixes this issue.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Apache Software Foundation Apache HTTP Server

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2.4.0 to ≤ 2.4.68affected

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