CVE-2009-1902 (GCVE-0-2009-1902)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-06-03 16:33 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:27
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The multipart processor in ModSecurity before 2.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a multipart form datapost request with a missing part header name, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
14 references
Date Public
2009-03-19 00:00
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