CVE-2022-48279

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 10
Modified
Published: 20 Jan 2023, 00:00
Last modified:03 Apr 2025, 18:43

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.94% LOW
1% probability +0.33%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

20 Jan 2023, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Apr 2025, 18:43
Last Modified
Vulnerability 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

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.94%• Percentile: 77%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-436•Interpretation Conflict

    Product A handles inputs or steps differently than Product B, which causes A to perform incorrect actions based on its perception of B's state.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    10.0

  • owasp•modsecurity

    ≥ 3.0.0, < 3.0.8

  • trustwave•modsecurity

    < 2.9.6

References (9)