Vulnerability CVE-2009-5031
Published: 2012-07-22   Modified: 2012-07-23

Description:
ModSecurity 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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Modsecurity -> Modsecurity 

 References:
https://www.modsecurity.org/fisheye/browse/modsecurity/m2/branches/2.5.x/apache2/msc_multipart.c?r2=1419&r1=1366
http://www.suspekt.org/downloads/POC2009-ShockingNewsInPHPExploitation.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54156
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/1
http://secunia.com/advisories/49576
http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/branches/2.6.x/CHANGES
http://blog.ivanristic.com/2012/06/modsecurity-and-modsecurity-core-rule-set-multipart-bypasses.html
Copyright 2024, cxsecurity.com

 

Back to Top