diff --git a/changes-entries/core-default-handler-stale-stat.txt b/changes-entries/core-default-handler-stale-stat.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..959f2e225dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes-entries/core-default-handler-stale-stat.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+  *) core: Refresh the cached file information from the open file
+     descriptor in the default handler, instead of keeping the result of
+     the directory walk's stat() on the pathname. A rename(2) racing
+     with the open() could otherwise leave Last-Modified, ETag,
+     Content-Length and the byte range actually sent describing a
+     different file than the one that was opened. PR 54962.
+     [Ståle Kristoffersen]
diff --git a/server/core.c b/server/core.c
index a6928ef916c..394524012e4 100644
--- a/server/core.c
+++ b/server/core.c
@@ -5248,6 +5248,17 @@ static int default_handler(request_rec *r)
             return HTTP_FORBIDDEN;
         }
 
+        /* r->finfo was populated by the directory walk's stat() on the
+         * pathname, which can race with a rename(2) replacing the file
+         * before it is opened here. Refresh it from the now-open file
+         * descriptor so that Last-Modified, ETag, Content-Length and the
+         * byte range actually sent all describe the same inode, instead
+         * of mixing stale directory-walk metadata with the content of
+         * whatever file the name happened to refer to by the time it
+         * was opened.
+         */
+        apr_file_info_get(&r->finfo, APR_FINFO_MIN | APR_FINFO_IDENT, fd);
+
         ap_update_mtime(r, r->finfo.mtime);
         ap_set_last_modified(r);
         ap_set_etag_fd(r, fd);