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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2022-39955

critical

CVE-2022-39955

mod_security_crs: Multiple charsets defined in Content-Type header

Published Modified CWE 863
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium).

Description

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10modsecurity-crs3.2.3-0+deb10u3
debian 11modsecurity-crs3.3.4-1~deb11u1
debian 12modsecurity-crs3.3.4-1
debian 13modsecurity-crs3.3.4-1
debian 14modsecurity-crs3.3.4-1
echomodsecurity-crs3.3.4-1
rapidfort alma 8mod_security_crsno fix listed
rapidfort alma 9mod_security_crsno fix listed
rapidfort Red Hat 9mod_security_crsno fix listed
Red Hatmod_security_crsno fix listed

References

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