CVE-2022-48279 (GCVE-0-2022-48279)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-20 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-03 18:43
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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