CVE-2017-3167: ap_get_basic_auth_pw authentication bypass Severity: Important Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: httpd 2.2.0 to 2.2.32 httpd 2.4.0 to 2.4.25 Description: Use of the ap_get_basic_auth_pw() by third-party modules outside of the authentication phase may lead to authentication requirements being bypassed. Mitigation: 2.2.x users should either apply the patch available at https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_2.2.32/CVE-2017-3167.patch or upgrade in the future to 2.2.33, which is currently unreleased. 2.4.x users should upgrade to 2.4.26. Third-party module writers SHOULD use ap_get_basic_auth_components(), available in 2.2.33 and 2.4.26, instead of ap_get_basic_auth_pw(). Modules which call the legacy ap_get_basic_auth_pw() during the authentication phase MUST either immediately authenticate the user after the call, or else stop the request immediately with an error response, to avoid incorrectly authenticating the current request. Credit: The Apache HTTP Server security team would like to thank Emmanuel Dreyfus for reporting this issue. References: https://httpd.apache.org/security_report.html
