High severity · published Jan 20, 2023
CVE-2022-48279
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
7.5
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 67% 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
MO
Modsecurity · Owasp
3.0.0 before 3.0.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48279
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48279
Not Applicable
https://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/
Patch
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2795
Patch
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2797
Release Notes
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v2.9.6
Release Notes
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.8
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00023.html
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