CVE-2012-0883Medium

Microsoft security update for CVE-2012-0883 — azl3 httpd

Published
September 3, 2025
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products2

  • azl3 httpd 2.4.62-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 httpd httpd-2.4.2 on Azure Linux 3.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update

1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Updatehttpd-2.4.2

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2012-0883

EchelonGraph score
6.9 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

envvars (aka envvars-std) in the Apache HTTP Server before 2.4.2 places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DSO in the current working directory during execution of apachectl.

Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2012-0883, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)