National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-5031

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://www.modsecurity.org/fisheye/browse/modsecurity/m2/branches/2.5.x/apache2/msc_multipart.c?r2=1419&r1=1366

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://www.modsecurity.org/fisheye/browse/modsecurity/m2/branches/2.5.x/apache2/msc_multipart.c?r2=1419&r1=1366

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.suspekt.org/downloads/POC2009-ShockingNewsInPHPExploitation.pdf

Hyperlink:http://www.suspekt.org/downloads/POC2009-ShockingNewsInPHPExploitation.pdf

External Source: BID

Name: 54156

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54156

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120621 Re: mod_security CVE request

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120621 mod_security CVE request

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49576

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49576

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/branches/2.6.x/CHANGES

Hyperlink:http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/branches/2.6.x/CHANGES

External Source: MISC

Name: http://blog.ivanristic.com/2012/06/modsecurity-and-modsecurity-core-rule-set-multipart-bypasses.html

Hyperlink:http://blog.ivanristic.com/2012/06/modsecurity-and-modsecurity-core-rule-set-multipart-bypasses.html