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CVE-2009-2299

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
02/07/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The Artofdefence Hyperguard Web Application Firewall (WAF) module before 2.5.5-11635, 3.0 before 3.0.3-11636, and 3.1 before 3.1.1-11637, a module for the Apache HTTP Server, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an HTTP request with a large Content-Length value but no POST data.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:hyperguard_web_application_firewall_project:hyperguard_web_application_firewall:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.5.5-11635 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:hyperguard_web_application_firewall_project:hyperguard_web_application_firewall:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.0 (including) 3.0.3-11636 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:hyperguard_web_application_firewall_project:hyperguard_web_application_firewall:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.1 (including) 3.1.1-11637 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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