7.5

CVE-2022-48279: debian debian_linux Interpretation Conflict

Modified
AliasesSUSE-SU-2023:0314-1SUSE-SU-2023:0317-1SUSE-SU-2023:0318-1
Published 20-01-2023Last modified 03-04-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-48279 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Interpretation Conflict vulnerability in debian debian_linux. EPSS estimates a 1.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.22%
0%100%
Low · +0.05 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 1

Timeline

  1. 20-01-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

69%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Increase +0.05 pp

From 1.17% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Suse25 products
  • apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE Enterprise Storage 6< 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
  • apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE Enterprise Storage 7< 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
  • apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1< 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
  • apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS< 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
  • apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS< 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
Debian3 products
  • modsecurity< 3.0.8-1
  • modsecurity-apache< 2.9.6-1
  • debian_linuxEOL10.0
Opensuse2 products
  • apache2-mod_security2&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.4< 2.9.4-150400.3.3.1
  • apache2-mod_security2&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 2.9.8-2.1
Ubuntu2 products
  • modsecurityAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • modsecurity-apache< 2.7.7-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | < 2.9.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | < 2.9.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | < 2.9.3-1ubuntu0.1 | < 2.9.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Owasp1 product
Trustwave1 product

6 vendors · 34 products

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