CVE-2019-0211
Apache HTTP Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Published
- Apr 8, 2019
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- apache
- Evidence observed
- Apr 8, 2019
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.2%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
In Apache HTTP Server 2.4 releases 2.4.17 to 2.4.38, with MPM event, worker or prefork, code executing in less-privileged child processes or threads (including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter) could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the parent process (usually root) by manipulating the scoreboard. Non-Unix systems are not affected.
Sources
3- CVE-2019-0211-exploitExploit
Local privilege escalation exploit for CVE-2019-0211 targeting Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17-2.4.38 with mod_php. Uses UAF in PHP to corrupt Apache scoreboard and execute arbitrary commands as root via graceful restart.
- Apache-Exploit-2019Exploit
CVE-2019-0211-apache & CVE-2019-6977-imagecolormatch
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