CVE-2009-5031

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-5031
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-07-22 16:55:17 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionModSecurity before 2.5.11 treats request parameter values containing single quotes as files, which allows remote attackers to bypass filtering rules and perform other attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a single quote in a request parameter in the Content-Disposition field of a request with a multipart/form-data Content-Type header.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-79 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 11.4 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.3 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
GitHub - SpiderLabs/ModSecurity: ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx that is developed by Trustwave's SpiderLabs. It has a robust event-based programming language which provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. With over 10,000 deployments world-wide, ModSecurity is the most widely deployed WAF in existence. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.modsecurity.org Broken Link
oss-security - Re: mod_security CVE request af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net Broken Link
oss-security - mod_security CVE request af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2013:1342-1: moderate: update for apache2-mod_security2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2013:1331-1: moderate: update for apache2-mod_security2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2013:1336-1: moderate: update for apache2-mod_security2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Be Suspicious. Online Security Blog - Suspekt.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.suspekt.org Third Party Advisory
ModSecurity Quote Parsing Security Bypass Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Ivan Ristić: ModSecurity and ModSecurity Core Rule Set Multipart Bypasses af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.ivanristic.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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