Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in ModSecurity - CVE-2013-5705

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in ModSecurity - CVE-2013-5705

Published: April 15, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41813
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5705
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Trustwave
Affected software:
ModSecurity

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.

apache2/modsecurity.c in ModSecurity before 2.7.6 allows remote attackers to bypass rules by using chunked transfer coding with a capitalized Chunked value in the Transfer-Encoding HTTP header.


How to mitigate CVE-2013-5705

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources