USN-6370-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2021-42717)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-09-14 14:06 – Updated: 2026-06-29 10:53 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
modsecurity-apache vulnerabilities
Details
It was discovered that ModSecurity incorrectly handled certain nested JSON objects. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-42717)
It was discovered that ModSecurity incorrectly handled certain HTTP multipart requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass ModSecurity restrictions. (CVE-2022-48279)
It was discovered that ModSecurity incorrectly handled certain file uploads. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a buffer overflow and a firewall failure. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-24021)
References
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"id": "USN-6370-1",
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