High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 20, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-48279

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.

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Affected products

Trustwave/Modsecurity2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:owasp:modsecurity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:owasp:modsecurity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=3.0.0,<3.0.8
- cpe:2.3:a:trustwave:modsecurity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.9.6
Debian/linux
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ModSecurity/ModSecuritydescription
ModSecurity/mod_securityllm-fuzzy
Range: <2.9.6, <3.0.8
Spiderlabs/ModSecurityllm-fuzzy
Range: <2.9.6, <3.0.8
osv-coords29 versions
pkg:bitnami/modsecurity pkg:bitnami/modsecurity2 pkg:rpm/opensuse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4 pkg:rpm/opensuse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Real%20Time%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCL pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.2 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Retail%20Branch%20Server%204.2 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.2 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209 pkg:rpm/suse/apache2-mod_security2&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 2.9.6+ 28 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.6
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.6
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.4-150400.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.8-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.4-150400.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.8.0-7.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.8.0-7.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.8.0-7.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.8.0-7.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.8.0-7.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.9.2-150000.3.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.8.0-7.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.8.0-7.6.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2795nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/2797nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v2.9.6nvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.8nvdRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00023.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/nvdNot Applicable
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/52TGCZCOHYBDCVWJYNN2PS4QLOHCXWTQ/nvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SYRTXTOQQI6SB2TLI5QXU76DURSLS4XI/nvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WCH6JM4I4MD4YABYFHSBDDOUFDGIFJKL/nvd

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