CVE-2012-2751 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-2751

ModSecurity before 2.6.6, when used with PHP, does not properly...

Vulnerability Description

ModSecurity before 2.6.6, when used with PHP, does not properly handle single quotes not at the beginning of a request parameter value in the Content-Disposition field of a request with a multipart/form-data Content-Type header, which allows remote attackers to bypass filtering rules and perform other attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-5031.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

modsecurity, opensuse, debian linux, http server
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 11.4, 12.2, 12.3, 6.0, 7.0, 11.1.1.6.0

Timeline

Official Publish: July 22nd, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.