CVE-2022-48279: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In ModSecurity before 2.9.6 and 3.x before 3.0.8, HTTP multipart requests were incorrectly parsed and could bypass the Web Application Firewall. NOTE: this is related to CVE-2022-39956 but can be considered independent changes to the ModSecurity (C language) codebase.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Owasp Modsecurity: from 3.0.0, before 3.0.8 (fixed in 3.0.8)
• Trustwave Modsecurity: before 2.9.6 (fixed in 2.9.6)

Published 2023-01-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.