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Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server

A critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability has been discovered in the Apache HTTP Server.

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A critical synchronization vulnerability, CVE-2026-119618, has been discovered in Apache HTTP Server's HTTP/2 module (mod_http2). The flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to corrupt heap memory and achieve arbitrary code execution by exploiting a race condition in the assign_headers() function. While no exploits are currently available, 64% of cloud environments are estimated to have vulnerable resources.

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