CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-39956
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-09-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-116, CWE-863
Description
The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) is affected by a partial rule set bypass for HTTP multipart requests by submitting a payload that uses a character encoding scheme via the Content-Type or the deprecated Content-Transfer-Encoding multipart MIME header fields that will not be decoded and inspected by the web application firewall engine and the rule set. The multipart payload will therefore bypass detection. A vulnerable backend that supports these encoding schemes can potentially be exploited. The legacy CRS versions 3.0.x and 3.1.x are affected, as well as the currently supported versions 3.2.1 and 3.3.2. Integrators and users are advised upgrade to 3.2.2 and 3.3.3 respectively. The mitigation against these vulnerabilities depends on the installation of the latest ModSecurity version (v2.9.6 / v3.0.8).
Affected configurations
• owasp owasp modsecurity core rule set (>= 3.0.0 < 3.2.2)
• owasp owasp modsecurity core rule set (>= 3.3.0 < 3.3.3)
• fedoraproject fedora 35
• fedoraproject fedora 36
• fedoraproject fedora 37
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
References
- https://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HL2L2GF7GOCWPMJZDUE5OXDSXHGG3XUJ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PD56EAYNGB6E6QQH62LAYCONOP6OH5DZ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YPQ6CCMX3MU4A7MTCGQJA7VMJW3IQDXV/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-25 security.gentoo.org
- https://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00004.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HL2L2GF7GOCWPMJZDUE5OXDSXHGG3XUJ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PD56EAYNGB6E6QQH62LAYCONOP6OH5DZ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YPQ6CCMX3MU4A7MTCGQJA7VMJW3IQDXV/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-25 security.gentoo.org