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ModSecurity < 2.5.9 Multipart Request Header Name DoS

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6989

Synopsis

The remote web application firewall may be affected by a denial of service vulnerability

Description

According to its banner, the version of ModSecurity installed on the remote host is earlier than 2.5.9. It is, therefore, potentially affected by a denial of service vulnerability. An error exists related to multipart form HTTP POST requests with a missing part header name that could allow an attacker to crash the application.

Solution

Upgrade to ModSecurity version 2.5.9 or later.

See Also

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-03/0195.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 6989

Family: Web Servers

Published: 8/16/2013

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 67125

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:modsecurity:modsecurity

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1902

BID: 34096