Access Control Bypass Affecting mod-wsgi package, versions [,4.9.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-MODWSGI-5415003
  • published19 Jul 2022
  • disclosed18 Jul 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-2255  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mod-wsgi to version 4.9.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass in src/server/mod_wsgi.c, which fails to strip out X-Client-IP headers from untrusted proxies, allowing attackers to retrieve headers from other IP addresses and send back malicious requests including them.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1