CVE-2026-79768MediumMicrosoft CVSS 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-79768 — azl3 httpd 2.4.68-1 on Azure Linux 3.0

Published
October 9, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products1

  • azl3 httpd 2.4.68-1 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 Update2.4.69-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-79768

EchelonGraph score
5.3 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

Path equivalence: '/./' (single dot directory) vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server's mod_userdir module when configured with absolute non-wildcard UserDir directive (the 2nd form in https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir) This issue affects Apache HTTP Server: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.68.

Published by Apache Software Foundation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-79768, 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)