CVE-2009-5031

Trustwave Modsecurity < 2.5.11 - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

ModSecurity before 2.5.11 treats request parameter values containing single quotes as files, which allows remote attackers to bypass filtering rules and perform other attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a single quote in a request parameter in the Content-Disposition field of a request with a multipart/form-data Content-Type header.

References (11)

[Third Party Advisory] http://blog.ivanristic.com/2012/06/modsecurity-and-modsecurity-core-rule-set-multipart-bypasses.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00020.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00025.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00031.html

[Broken Link] http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/branches/2.6.x/CHANGES

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/49576

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/1

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/2

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54156

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.suspekt.org/downloads/POC2009-ShockingNewsInPHPExploitation.pdf

[Broken Link] https://www.modsecurity.org/fisheye/browse/modsecurity/m2/branches/2.5.x/apache2/msc_multipart.c?r2=1419&r1=1366

Scores

EPSS 0.0080

EPSS Percentile 73.8%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (5)

trustwave/modsecurity < 2.5.11

opensuse/opensuse

opensuse/opensuse

opensuse/opensuse

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Jul 22, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026