Rewterz Threat Advisory – Apache Traffic Control security bypass

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

CVE-2020-17522

Apache Traffic Control could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper permission assignment when generating ip_allow.config. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to push arbitrary content into and remove arbitrary content from CDN cache servers.

Impact

Security bypass

Affected Vendors

Apache

Affected Products

Apache Traffic Control 3.0.0
Apache Traffic Control 3.1.0
Apache Traffic Control 4.0.0
Apache Traffic Control 4.1.0

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of Traffic Control (4.1.1, 5.0.0 or later)

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