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OESA-2024-1512 (CVE-2022-48279)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2024-04-26 11:06 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:06 – Source website

Summary

mod_security security update

Details

This software is also called Modsec,it is an open-source web application firewall. It is designed for Apache HTTP Server.ModSecurity is commonly deployed to provide protections against generic classed of vulnerabilities.The install of this package is easy and you can read the README.TXT for more information.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2022-48279)

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48279	ADVISORY

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  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:06:57Z",
  "published": "2024-04-26T11:06:57Z",
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CVE-2022-48279 (GCVE-0-2022-48279)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-20 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-03 18:43

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-03 18:41 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-436 - Interpretation Conflict

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

9 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/release…
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2797
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/release…
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2795
https://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory

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