With Apache 2.4.50 the team fixed CVE-2021-41773, a critical security flaw that allowed under certain conditions an outside to access files on your server outside of the configured document roots. This fix was corrected for the issue reported, but it did not close the weakness completely, as was discovered soon thereafter by people in the security community. Indeed, the weakness was worse than originally thought. But it also affected way less installations than was communicated in the media.
