modsecurity-crs — security advisory
coreruleset (aka OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set) through 3.3.4 does not detect multiple Content-Type request headers on some platforms. This might allow attackers to bypass a WAF with a crafted payload, aka "Content-Type confusion" between the WAF and the backend application. This occurs when the web application relies on only the last Content-Type header. Other platforms may reject the additional Content-Type header or merge conflicting headers, leading to detection as a malformed header.
- Products
- modsecurity-crs
- Affected versions
- 3.3.4-1, 3.3.4-1+deb12u1
- Fixed versions
- 3.3.4-1+deb12u2, 3.3.5-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-38199
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
coreruleset (aka OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set) through 3.3.4 does not detect multiple Content-Type request headers on some platforms. This might allow attackers to bypass a WAF with a crafted payload, aka "Content-Type confusion" between the WAF and the backend application. This occurs when the web application relies on only the last Content-Type header. Other platforms may reject the additional Content-Type header or merge conflicting headers, leading to detection as a malformed header.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38199
modsecurity-crs
Fixed versions: 3.3.4-1+deb12u2
modsecurity-crs
Fixed versions: 3.3.5-1
modsecurity-crs
Fixed versions: 3.3.5-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-26T18:03:06.438342981Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
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"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38199"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 457655,
"published_at": "2023-07-13T03:15:10.023+00:00"
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