XSS in Trustwave Modsecurity
CVE-2009-5031
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.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.029 (87.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Trustwave Modsecurity
- openSUSE — versions 11.4, 12.2, 12.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00031.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/54156 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00020.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.suspekt.org/downloads/POC2009-ShockingNewsInPHPExploitation.pdf (Third Party Advisory)
- mod-security.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mod-security/m2/branches/2.6.x/CHANGES (Broken Link)
- blog.ivanristic.com/2012/06/modsecurity-and-modsecurity-core-rule-set-multipart… (Third Party Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/2 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/22/1 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/49576 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.modsecurity.org/fisheye/browse/modsecurity/m2/branches/2.5.x/apache2/msc_mu… (Broken Link)