CVE-2026-42356

Deployment of wrong handler vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server allows the target of some internal redirects from CGI programs to also be treated as CGI and executed. The target must already be in a directory enabled for CGI and have no other extension understood by mod_mime.

This issue affects Apache HTTP Server: from 2.4.60 through 2.4.68.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "apache",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-430"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/42xxx/CVE-2026-42356.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "range": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "2.4.60"
                        },
                        {
                            "last_affected": "2.4.68"
                        }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "StandardRange"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/httpd

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/apache/httpd

Events

Introduced

da5873e80d6eee7a0838793bf68f1d0254745fbb

Fixed

1e06e9860794ce39605b79a0a787abfe084e5677

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.4.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "2.4.69"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-42356.json"