FKIE_CVE-2022-48279

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-01-20 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:14
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
In ModSecurity before 2.9.6 and 3.x before 3.0.8, HTTP multipart requests were incorrectly parsed and could bypass the Web Application Firewall. NOTE: this is related to CVE-2022-39956 but can be considered independent changes to the ModSecurity (C language) codebase.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/Not Applicable
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2795Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2797Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v2.9.6Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.8Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00023.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/52TGCZCOHYBDCVWJYNN2PS4QLOHCXWTQ/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SYRTXTOQQI6SB2TLI5QXU76DURSLS4XI/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WCH6JM4I4MD4YABYFHSBDDOUFDGIFJKL/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/Not Applicable
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2795Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2797Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v2.9.6Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.8Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00023.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/52TGCZCOHYBDCVWJYNN2PS4QLOHCXWTQ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SYRTXTOQQI6SB2TLI5QXU76DURSLS4XI/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WCH6JM4I4MD4YABYFHSBDDOUFDGIFJKL/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
owasp modsecurity *
trustwave modsecurity *
debian debian_linux 10.0
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