CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-5031
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-07-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
ModSecurity before 2.5.11 treats request parameter values containing single quotes as files, which allows remote attackers to bypass filtering rules and perform other attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a single quote in a request parameter in the Content-Disposition field of a request with a multipart/form-data Content-Type header.
Affected configurations
• trustwave modsecurity (< 2.5.11)
• opensuse opensuse 11.4
• opensuse opensuse 12.2
• opensuse opensuse 12.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://blog.ivanristic.com/2012/06/modsecurity-and-modsecurity-core-rule-set-multipart-bypasses.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00025.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/branches/2.6.x/CHANGES Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49576 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54156 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.suspekt.org/downloads/POC2009-ShockingNewsInPHPExploitation.pdf Third Party Advisory
- https://www.modsecurity.org/fisheye/browse/modsecurity/m2/branches/2.5.x/apache2/msc_multipart.c?r2=1419&r1=1366 Broken Link
- http://blog.ivanristic.com/2012/06/modsecurity-and-modsecurity-core-rule-set-multipart-bypasses.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00025.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/branches/2.6.x/CHANGES Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49576 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54156 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.suspekt.org/downloads/POC2009-ShockingNewsInPHPExploitation.pdf Third Party Advisory
- https://www.modsecurity.org/fisheye/browse/modsecurity/m2/branches/2.5.x/apache2/msc_multipart.c?r2=1419&r1=1366 Broken Link