CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-53020

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Published: Jul 10, 2025 | Modified: Jul 29, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Late Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server.

This issue affects Apache HTTP Server: from 2.4.17 up to 2.4.63.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.64, which fixes the issue.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Http_server Apache 2.4.17 (including) 2.4.64 (excluding)
Apache2 Ubuntu devel *
Apache2 Ubuntu jammy *
Apache2 Ubuntu noble *
Apache2 Ubuntu plucky *
Apache2 Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

  • Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
  • For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
  • When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
  • To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References