CVE-2022-48279
HIGHModSecurity < 2.9.6 and 3.0.0-3.0.7 - Web Application Firewall Bypass via HTTP Multipart Request Parsing
Title source: llmDescription
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 (9)
Core 9
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2795
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2797
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v2.9.6
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.8
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00023.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WCH6JM4I4MD4YABYFHSBDDOUFDGIFJKL/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/52TGCZCOHYBDCVWJYNN2PS4QLOHCXWTQ/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SYRTXTOQQI6SB2TLI5QXU76DURSLS4XI/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0117
EPSS Percentile
63.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-436
Status
published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux
10.0
owasp/modsecurity
3.0.0 - 3.0.8
trustwave/modsecurity
< 2.9.6
Published
Jan 20, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026