CVE-2022-39955: high-severity vulnerability in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set
Partial rule set bypass in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set by submitting a specially crafted HTTP Content-Type header
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.3epss 1.4%
exploitation probability
1.4%top 28% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) is affected by a partial rule set bypass by submitting a specially crafted HTTP Content-Type header field that indicates multiple character encoding schemes. A vulnerable back-end can potentially be exploited by declaring multiple Content-Type "charset" names and therefore bypassing the configurable CRS Content-Type header "charset" allow list. An encoded payload can bypass CRS detection this way and may then be decoded by the backend. 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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Affected products
OWASP · ModSecurity Core Rule SetRelated CVEs — OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set
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CVE-2022-39958HIGHResponse body bypass in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set via repeated HTTP Range header submission with a small byte rangeEPSS 1.2%CVE-2022-39956HIGHPartial rule set bypass in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set for HTTP multipart requests using character encoding in the Content-Type or Content-Transfer-Encoding headerEPSS 1.2%CVE-2022-39957HIGHResponse body bypass in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set via a specialy crafted charset in the HTTP Accept headerEPSS 1.0%
References
https://coreruleset.org/20220919/crs-version-3-3-3-and-3-2-2-covering-several-cves/https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00004.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HL2L2GF7GOCWPMJZDUE5OXDSXHGG3XUJ/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PD56EAYNGB6E6QQH62LAYCONOP6OH5DZ/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YPQ6CCMX3MU4A7MTCGQJA7VMJW3IQDXV/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-25