• Saturday, April 6, 2019

Mark J Cox, one of the founding members of the Apache Software Foundation and the OpenSSL project, today posted a tweet warning users about a recently discovered important flaw in Apache HTTP Server software.

The Apache web server is one of the most popular, widely used open-source web servers in the world that powers almost 40 percent of the whole Internet.

The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2019-0211, was discovered by Charles Fol, a security engineer at Ambionics Security firm, and patched by the Apache developers in the latest version 2.4.39 of its software released today.

The flaw affects Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.17 through 2.4.38 and could allow any less-privileged user to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the targeted server.

According to Cox, the vulnerability is more concerning for shared web hosting services, where malicious customers or a hacker with ability to execute PHP or CGI scripts on a website can make use of the flaw to gain root access on the server, eventually compromising all other websites hosted on the same server.

As soon as we received the warning about this threat we started taking the appropriate actions. We immediately took safety measures and prevented the possibility of taking advantage of this Apache flaw. All our infrastructure was patched last night to the latest possible versions and other safety measures were applied.

If you have any further questions for us, feel free to send us an email to [email protected] or open a ticket in our Support Center.

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DVHosting Staff

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