CVE-2024-40898

CRITICALNVD 7.59.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2024-07-18. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 1.6.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2024-38709 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.6%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

SSRF in Apache HTTP Server on Windows with mod_rewrite in server/vhost context, allows to potentially leak NTML hashes to a malicious server via SSRF and malicious requests.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.62 which fixes this issue. 

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
72
EG Risk 72/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity91% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
1.6%
EPSS %ILE
76th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.1 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
1.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 18, 2024

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 14, 2026
Patch available.
Web pageMentions a patch (unverified)

Apache HTTP Server 2.4 vulnerabilities - The Apache HTTP Server Project

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html
Web page

oss-security - CVE-2024-40898: Apache HTTP Server: SSRF with mod_rewrite in server/vhost context on Windows

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/17/7

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2024-40898(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatpatch2024-09-24redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(8 across 8 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.17(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache2—
  • every version up to 2.4.62-r0: fixed in 2.4.62-r0
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Alpine:v3.18(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache2—
  • every version up to 2.4.62-r0: fixed in 2.4.62-r0
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Alpine:v3.19(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache2—
  • every version up to 2.4.62-r0: fixed in 2.4.62-r0
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache2—
  • every version up to 2.4.62-r0: fixed in 2.4.62-r0
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache2—
  • every version up to 2.4.62-r0: fixed in 2.4.62-r0
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache2—
  • every version up to 2.4.62-r0: fixed in 2.4.62-r0
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache2—
  • every version up to 2.4.62-r0: fixed in 2.4.62-r0
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Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache2—
  • every version up to 2.4.62-r0: fixed in 2.4.62-r0
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 25× in last 7d / 86× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 262 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 163 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 02:09 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 02:09 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-02 02:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  5. 2026-11-01 03:23 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 03:23 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-01 03:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  8. 2026-10-31 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  9. 2026-10-31 04:37 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-31 04:37 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-31 04:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  12. 2026-10-30 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  13. 2026-10-30 05:52 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-30 05:52 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-30 05:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  16. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  17. 2026-10-29 07:07 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-29 07:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  19. 2026-10-28 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  20. 2026-10-28 08:21 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-28 08:21 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-28 08:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  23. 2026-10-27 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  24. 2026-10-27 09:21 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-27 09:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  1. 2026-10-26 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  2. 2026-10-26 10:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  3. 2026-10-25 17:05 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-25 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  5. 2026-10-25 11:29 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-25 11:29 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-25 11:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  8. 2026-10-24 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  9. 2026-10-24 12:44 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-24 12:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  11. 2026-10-23 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  12. 2026-10-23 13:56 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-23 13:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  14. 2026-10-22 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  15. 2026-10-22 15:09 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-22 15:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  17. 2026-10-21 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  18. 2026-10-21 16:22 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-21 16:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  20. 2026-10-20 17:37 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-20 17:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  22. 2026-10-20 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  23. 2026-10-19 18:45 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-19 18:45 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-19 18:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  26. 2026-10-19 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  27. 2026-10-18 19:56 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-18 19:56 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-18 19:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  30. 2026-10-18 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  31. 2026-10-18 07:08 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-17 21:10 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-10-17 21:10 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-17 21:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  35. 2026-10-17 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  36. 2026-10-16 22:23 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-10-16 22:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  38. 2026-10-16 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  39. 2026-10-15 19:03 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-15 19:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  41. 2026-10-15 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  42. 2026-10-14 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  43. 2026-10-14 12:48 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-10-14 12:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  45. 2026-10-13 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  46. 2026-10-13 12:41 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-13 12:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  48. 2026-10-12 17:48 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-10-12 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  50. 2026-10-12 13:53 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-12 13:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6mg-hq7f-jw2j · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  52. 2026-10-11 21:13 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-10-11 16:06 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-11 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  55. 2026-10-10 19:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  56. 2026-10-10 04:33 UTCOSV refresh
  57. 2026-10-09 20:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  58. 2026-10-08 17:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  59. 2026-10-07 23:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  60. 2026-10-06 15:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 74th percentile
  61. 2026-10-05 17:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  62. 2026-10-03 14:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  63. 2026-10-01 19:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
  64. 2026-09-30 19:50 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-09-30 15:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
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  67. 2026-09-28 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.5% · 73rd percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCForceEA001/CVE-2024-40898-SSL-Bypass-Detection
    Published Jun 30, 2025

    This Python script is a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) scanner for detecting the vulnerability CVE-2024-40898, which affects Apache HTTP Server’s SSL certificate validation.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2024-40898?
CVE-2024-40898 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 18, 2024. SSRF in Apache HTTP Server on Windows with mod_rewrite in server/vhost context, allows to potentially leak NTML hashes to a malicious server via SSRF and malicious requests. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.62 which fixes this issue.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2024-40898 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2024-40898 was published on July 18, 2024. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2024-40898 actively exploited?
CVE-2024-40898 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (76th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-40898?
CVE-2024-40898 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.1 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2024-40898?
A fix for CVE-2024-40898 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2024-40898 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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