CVE-2013-5705

medium
Published 2014-04-15 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.7.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.7.7-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.7.7-1
debian debiansidfixed2.7.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.7.7-1
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
trustwavemodsecurity{"endExcluding":"2.7.6"}2.7.6

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.