CVE-2022-48279
High
Published: 20 January 2023
Published
20 January 2023
Modified
03 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
0.0091
76.3th percentile
Risk Priority
16
60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS
Summary
CVE-2022-48279 is a high-severity Interpretation Conflict (CWE-436) vulnerability in Owasp Modsecurity. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 23.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-50981
Vulnerability details
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.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
owasp
modsecurity
3.0.0 — 3.0.8
trustwave
modsecurity
≤ 2.9.6
debian
debian linux
10.0
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.