ELA-792-1 modsecurity-apache security update

web application firewall bypass

2023-02-03
Packagemodsecurity-apache
Version2.8.0-3+deb8u2 (jessie)
Related CVEs CVE-2022-48279


A issues was found in modsecurity-apache, open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache which allows remote attackers to bypass the applications firewall.

CVE-2022-48279

In ModSecurity before 2.9.6 and 3.x before 3.0.8, HTTP multipart
requests were incorrectly parsed and could bypass the Web Application
Firewall.
NOTE: this is related to CVE-2022-39956 but can be considered
independent changes to the ModSecurity (C language) codebase.


For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.8.0-3+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your modsecurity-apache packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.