CVE-2023-38199 — Type Confusion in Modsecurity-crs
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 89.10%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 13
Latest updateFeb 15
Description
coreruleset (aka OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set) through 3.3.4 does not detect multiple Content-Type request headers on some platforms. This might allow attackers to bypass a WAF with a crafted payload, aka "Content-Type confusion" between the WAF and the backend application. This occurs when the web application relies on only the last Content-Type header. Other platforms may reject the additional Content-Type header or merge conflicting headers, leading to detection as a malformed header.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9