CVE-2013-5705 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00842.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Debian	Debian Linux
Trustwave	Modsecurity

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:trustwave:modsecurity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-34-1	libapache-mod-security security update
Debian DSA	DSA-2991-1	modsecurity-apache security update
EUVD	EUVD-2013-5542	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://martin.swende.se/blog/HTTPChunked.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2991
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/commit/f8d441cd25172fdfe5b613442fedfc0da3cc333d
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5705
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-5705

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-04-15T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T17:22:30.145Z

Reserved: 2013-09-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-5705

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-04-15T10:55:11.197

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2013-5705

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-03-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-5705 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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