CVE-2026-73637

Use after free in mod_auth_digest in Apache Software Foundation Apache HTTP Server before 2.4.69 on all platforms allows an unauthenticated remote client to cause authentication state corruption via concurrent Digest authentication requests when AuthDigestNcCheck is enabled or AuthDigestNonceLifetime is set to 0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.69, which fixes this issue.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "apache",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-416"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/73xxx/CVE-2026-73637.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "range": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "2.4.0"
                        },
                        {
                            "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-2026-73637.json"