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CVE-2009-5031

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2012-07-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Opensuse OpensuseTrustwave Modsecurity

Weakness Type

CWE-79

References