CVE-2022-39955

7.3 HIGH
Published: September 20, 2022 Modified: November 03, 2025

Description

The 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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html
Source: vulnerability@ncsc.ch
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-25
Source: vulnerability@ncsc.ch
https://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-25
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

13 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
7.3 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.1%
33th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

owasp fedoraproject debian