CVE-2009-5031

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

22/07/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:trustwave:modsecurity::::::::		2.5.11 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:::::::*

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CVE-2009-5031

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools