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Comment by 8organicbits

While I think an update to the Apache version is a good idea, this is a very low quality report. There are tons of people scanning the web looking for out-of-date software and sending low effort reports about known CVEs. This is the kind of report even large companies ignore.

Critically, it's not even clear that this is a vulnerability report. Yes the version is out dated, and yes there are known CVEs, but is the server actually vulnerable?

The CVE referenced has the key phrase: "... whose response headers are malicious or exploitable". This does not appear to be a CVE that would impact every installation. You need to find a way to control the response headers, meaning you need to chain another vulnerability.

Without verifying that the server is vulnerable this isn't a vulnerability report. It's a suggestion to install updates. Paired with the poor delivery, it seems reasonable for the author to get blocked and ignored.

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