CVE detail
CVE-2002-0839 — CVE-2002-0839
Published 2002-10-11 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor apache · Product http_server · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0094
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
58.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
The shared memory scoreboard in the HTTP daemon for Apache 1.3.x before 1.3.27 allows any user running as the Apache UID to send a SIGUSR1 signal to any process as root, resulting in a denial of service (process kill) or possibly other behaviors that would not normally be allowed, by modifying the parent[].pid and parent[].last_rtime segments in the scoreboard.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References