CVE-2022-39955

Summary

CVECVE-2022-39955
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-20 07:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:50:00 UTC
DescriptionThe OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) is affected by a partial rule set bypass by submitting a specially crafted HTTP Content-Type header field that indicates multiple character encoding schemes. A vulnerable back-end can potentially be exploited by declaring multiple Content-Type "charset" names and therefore bypassing the configurable CRS Content-Type header "charset" allow list. An encoded payload can bypass CRS detection this way and may then be decoded by the backend. The legacy CRS versions 3.0.x and 3.1.x are affected, as well as the currently supported versions 3.2.1 and 3.3.2. Integrators and users are advised to upgrade to 3.2.2 and 3.3.3 respectively.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 36 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Application Owasp Owasp Modsecurity Core Rule Set All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: mod_security-2.9.6-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: mod_security-2.9.6-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: mod_security_crs-3.3.4-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202305-25) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: mod_security-2.9.6-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: mod_security_crs-3.3.4-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3293-1] modsecurity-crs security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: mod_security-2.9.6-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CRS Version 3.3.3 and 3.2.2 (covering several CVEs) – OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set CONFIRM coreruleset.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: @terjanq (Jan Gora)

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181522 Debian Security Update for modsecurity-crs (DLA 3293-1)
  • 184454 Debian Security Update for modsecurity-crs (CVE-2022-39955)
  • 283212 Fedora Security Update for mod_security (FEDORA-2022-85a85c84b3)
  • 283213 Fedora Security Update for mod_security (FEDORA-2022-90708b46e3)
  • 283488 Fedora Security Update for mod_security (FEDORA-2022-1fd73a5285)
  • 710728 Gentoo Linux OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202305-25)
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