CVE-2022-39956
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
20/09/2022
Last modified:
03/11/2025
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).
Impact
Base Score 3.x
7.30
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:owasp:owasp_modsecurity_core_rule_set:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 3.0.0 (including) | 3.2.2 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:a:owasp:owasp_modsecurity_core_rule_set:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 3.3.0 (including) | 3.3.3 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HL2L2GF7GOCWPMJZDUE5OXDSXHGG3XUJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PD56EAYNGB6E6QQH62LAYCONOP6OH5DZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YPQ6CCMX3MU4A7MTCGQJA7VMJW3IQDXV/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-25
- https://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00004.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HL2L2GF7GOCWPMJZDUE5OXDSXHGG3XUJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PD56EAYNGB6E6QQH62LAYCONOP6OH5DZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YPQ6CCMX3MU4A7MTCGQJA7VMJW3IQDXV/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-25



