CVE-2022-39957

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

Description

The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) is affected by a response body bypass. A client can issue an HTTP Accept header field containing an optional "charset" parameter in order to receive the response in an encoded form. Depending on the "charset", this response can not be decoded by the web application firewall. A restricted resource, access to which would ordinarily be detected, may therefore bypass detection. 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%
31th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

owasp fedoraproject debian