Coverage › CVE-2021-40438
CVE-2021-40438 Unmapped
Apache HTTP Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
- Vendor / product
- Apache — Apache
- Description (CISA)
- A crafted request uri-path can cause mod_proxy to forward the request to an origin server choosen by the remote user. This issue affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.48 and earlier.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-12-01
- Due date
- 2021-12-15
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-918
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40438
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2021-40438. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-918) — here is why — and does not guess.
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