A modsecurity-apache security update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux 8 Extended LTS to address an issue that allows remote attackers to bypass the application firewall.
ELA-792-1 modsecurity-apache security update
Package : modsecurity-apache
ELA-792-1 modsecurity-apache security update
Version : 2.8.0-3+deb8u2 (jessie)
Related CVEs :
CVE-2022-48279
A issues was found in modsecurity-apache, open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache which allows remote attackers to bypass the applications firewall.
CVE-2022-48279
In ModSecurity before 2.9.6 and 3.x before 3.0.8, HTTP multipart requests were incorrectly parsed and could bypass the Web Application Firewall.
NOTE: this is related to CVE-2022-39956 but can be considered independent changes to the ModSecurity (C language) codebase.
