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CVE-2020-22669

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

Modsecurity owasp-modsecurity-crs 3.2.0 (Paranoia level at PL1) has a SQL injection bypass vulnerability. Attackers can use the comment characters and variable assignments in the SQL syntax to bypass Modsecurity WAF protection and implement SQL injection attacks on Web applications.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published9/2/2022

Last Modified11/3/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

debian:debian_linuxowasp:owasp_modsecurity_core_rule_set

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-89

References

https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1727(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/pull/1793(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1727(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/pull/1793(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00004.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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