grahamdumpleton/mod_wsgi · Security
Incorrect header handling in mod-wsgi
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-7527-8855-9cf8
- CVE ID
- CVE-2022-2255
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
A vulnerability was found in mod_wsgi. The X-Client-IP header is not removed from a request from an untrusted proxy, allowing an attacker to pass the X-Client-IP header to the target WSGI application because the condition to remove it is missing.
CWEs
- CWE-345 · Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2255 ↗
- https://github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi/blob/4.9.2/src/server/mod_wsgi.c#L13940-L13941 ↗
- https://github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi/blob/4.9.2/src/server/mod_wsgi.c#L14046-L14082 ↗
- https://modwsgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-notes/version-4.9.3.html ↗
- https://github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi/commit/af3c0c2736bc0b0b01fa0f0aad3c904b7fa9c751 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mod-wsgi/PYSEC-2022-254.yaml ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00021.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7527-8855-9cf8 ↗