Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 2, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-22669

Description

Modsecurity owasp-modsecurity-crs 3.2.0 (Paranoia level at PL1) has a SQL injection bypass vulnerability. Attackers can use the comment characters and variable assignments in the SQL syntax to bypass Modsecurity WAF protection and implement SQL injection attacks on Web applications.

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Affected products

Modsecurity/owasp-modsecurity-crsdescription
Trustwave/ModSecurity CRSllm-create
Range: =3.2.0
Trustwave/Modsecurityllm-create
Range: =3.2.0
Trustwave/ModSecurity Core Rule Set
cpe:2.3:a:owasp:owasp_modsecurity_core_rule_set:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Debian/linux
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

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References

github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1727nvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/pull/1793nvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00004.htmlnvd

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