Name: CVE-2009-5031: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2012-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2009-5031, CWE-79, CVSS 6.1, EPSS 0.00795

ModSecurity before 2.5.11 treats request parameter values containing single quotes as files, which allows remote attackers to bypass filtering rules and perform other attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a single quote in a request parameter in the Content-Disposition field of a request with a multipart/form-data Content-Type header.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.1

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Suse	—	Upgrade apache2-mod_security2	Dec 12, 2013	Jun 28, 2013
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade libapache-mod-security	Nov 19, 2024	Jul 22, 2012

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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