UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48279

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48279

    Published: 20 Jan 2023Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-48279
    Aliases:
    USN-6370-1

    Summary:

    Details: In ModSecurity before 2.9.6 and 3.x before 3.0.8, HTTP multipart requests were incorrectly parsed and could bypass the Web Application Firewall. NOTE: this is related to CVE-2022-39956 but can be considered independent changes to the ModSecurity (C language) codebase.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-48279, https://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/, https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2795, https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2797, https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.8, https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v2.9.6, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6370-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48279

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: modsecurity-apache

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.7-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    2.7.4-1
    2.7.5-1
    2.7.7-1
    2.7.7-1ubuntu1
    2.7.7-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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