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CVE-2020-13938
Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges
Medium5.5EPSS 11.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apache
Description
Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.0 to 2.4.46 Unprivileged local users can stop httpd on Windows
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.8% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges
- CWE-862 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-862 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache HTTP Server
- affected 2.4.46
- affected 2.4.43
- affected 2.4.41
- affected 2.4.39
- affected 2.4.38
- affected 2.4.37
- affected 2.4.35
- affected 2.4.34
- affected 2.4.33
- affected 2.4.29
- affected 2.4.28
- affected 2.4.27
- affected 2.4.26
- affected 2.4.25
- affected 2.4.23
- affected 2.4.20
- affected 2.4.18
- affected 2.4.17
- affected 2.4.16
- affected 2.4.12
- affected 2.4.10
- affected 2.4.9
- affected 2.4.7
- affected 2.4.6
- affected 2.4.4
- affected 2.4.3
- affected 2.4.2
- affected 2.4.1
- affected 2.4.0
References (7)
- http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re026d3da9d7824bd93b9f871c0fdda978d960c7e62d8c43cba8d0bf3%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [httpd-announce] 20210609 CVE-2020-13938: Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [httpd-dev] 20210610 Re: svn commit: r1890598 - in /httpd/site/trunk/content/security/json: CVE-2019-17567.json CVE-2020-13938.json CVE-2020-13950.json CVE-2020-35452.json CVE-2021-26690.json CVE-2021-26691.json CVE-2021-30641.json CVE-2021-31618.json (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20210609 CVE-2020-13938: Apache httpd: Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210702-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10379 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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