Critical severity · published Sep 2, 2022
CVE-2020-22669
Modsecurity owasp-modsecurity-crs 3.2.0 (Paranoia level at PL1) has a SQL injection bypass vulnerability
9.8
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Modsecurity owasp-modsecurity-crs 3.2.0 (Paranoia level at PL1) has a SQL injection bypass vulnerability. Attackers can use the comment characters and variable assignments in the SQL syntax to bypass Modsecurity WAF protection and implement SQL injection attacks on Web applications.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 73% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
OM
Owasp Modsecurity Core Rule Set · Owasp
3.2.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-22669
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-22669
Exploit
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1727
Exploit
https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/pull/1793
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00004.html
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