CVE-2022-39958

Response body bypass in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set via repeated HTTP Range header submission with a small byte range

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Sep 20, 2022
Updated
Nov 3, 2025
Reserved
Sep 5, 2022

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Description

The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) is affected by a response body bypass to sequentially exfiltrate small and undetectable sections of data by repeatedly submitting an HTTP Range header field with a small byte range. A restricted resource, access to which would ordinarily be detected, may be exfiltrated from the backend, despite being protected by a web application firewall that uses CRS. Short subsections of a restricted resource may bypass pattern matching techniques and allow undetected access. 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 and to configure a CRS paranoia level of 3 or higher.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNCSC.ch

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ModSecurity Core Rule SetOWASP
  • 3.0.xAffected
  • 3.1.xAffected
  • 3.2.1 and earlierAffected
  • 3.3.2 and earlierAffected

References

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