CVE-2009-1902

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-1902
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-06-03 17:00:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe multipart processor in ModSecurity before 2.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a multipart form datapost request with a missing part header name, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-476 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 10 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 9 All All All
Application Trustwave Modsecurity All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
SourceForge.net: ModSecurity: Files af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net Third Party Advisory
Gentoo update for mod_security - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
ModSecurity Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:011 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Not Applicable
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: mod_security-2.5.9-1.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Third Party Advisory
ModSecurity Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- ModSecurity: Denial of Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: mod_security-2.5.9-1.fc10 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
www.osvdb.org/52553 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org Broken Link
Fedora update for mod_security - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
ModSecurity < 2.5.9 - Remote Denial of Service - Multiple dos Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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