CVE-2022-48279

Published: 20 January 2023

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.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
modsecurity Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Needs triage
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Released (3.0.8-1)
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)
	lunar	Not vulnerable (3.0.8-1)
	mantic	Not vulnerable (3.0.8-1)
modsecurity-apache Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	lunar	Not vulnerable (2.9.7-1)
	jammy	Released (2.9.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro
	xenial	Released (2.9.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro
	bionic	Released (2.9.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro
	focal	Released (2.9.3-1ubuntu0.1)
	trusty	Released (2.7.7-2ubuntu0.1~esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
	upstream	Released (2.9.6-1)
	mantic	Not vulnerable (2.9.7-1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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