CVE-2025-49506: Apache Portable Runtime Utility: apr_password_validate() vulnerable to timing attack
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Portable Runtime Utility
Vendor fix available · Affected: Apache Software Foundation Apache Portable Runtime Utility · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 32% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
APR-util versions 1.6.3 (and earlier) function apr_password_validate() was not constant-time with regards to hashes or passwords comparisons, potentially leaking their content via a side channel timing attack particularly on platforms without crypt() such as Windows, BeOS, NetWare, or Android. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.6.4, which fixes this issue.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Apache Software Foundation · Apache Portable Runtime Utilityfrom 1.2.0 up to and including 1.6.3
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Published
- August 2026
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