National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2751

Overview

ModSecurity before 2.6.6, when used with PHP, does not properly handle single quotes not at the beginning of a request parameter value in the Content-Disposition field of a request with a multipart/form-data Content-Type header, which allows remote attackers to bypass filtering rules and perform other attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-5031.

Impact

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/trunk/CHANGES?r1=1920&r2=1919&pathrev=1920

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/trunk/CHANGES?r1=1920&r2=1919&pathrev=1920

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/trunk/apache2/msc_multipart.c?r1=1918&r2=1917&pathrev=1918

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/trunk/apache2/msc_multipart.c?r1=1918&r2=1917&pathrev=1918

External Source: BID

Name: 54156

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

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html

Hyperlink:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2013-1899555.html

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: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2012:118

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:118

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2506

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2506

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49782

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49782

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