FKIE_CVE-2007-6420
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-01-12 00:46 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:48
Severity
Summary
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the balancer-manager in mod_proxy_balancer for Apache HTTP Server 2.2.x allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | http_server | 2.2.0 | |
| apache | http_server | 2.2.2 | |
| apache | http_server | 2.2.3 | |
| apache | http_server | 2.2.4 | |
| apache | http_server | 2.2.5 | |
| apache | http_server | 2.2.6 | |
| apache | http_server | 2.2.8 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 7.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.04 |
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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