A newly disclosed high-severity vulnerability in the widely used Apache HTTP Server is prompting urgent warnings from cybersecurity experts, after researchers demonstrated that the flaw could be exploited to trigger denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and, under certain conditions, achieve remote code execution (RCE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-23918<\/strong><\/a>, carries a CVSS score of 8.8 and affects version 2.4.66 of the server. It has been patched in version 2.4.67, which was released by the Apache Software Foundation as part of a broader security update addressing multiple vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n(8) WARNING: Critical Flaw In Apache HTTP Server Enables DoS & Remote Code Execution (RCE) Attacks | LinkedIn<\/a>: Critical Flaw In Apache HTTP Server Enables DoS & Remote Code Execution (RCE) Attacks<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A newly disclosed high-severity vulnerability in the widely used Apache HTTP Server is prompting urgent warnings from cybersecurity experts, after researchers demonstrated that the flaw could be exploited to trigger denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and, under certain conditions, achieve remote code execution (RCE). The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-23918, carries a CVSS…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability","tag-72"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}