CVE-2007-1359

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-03-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Interpretation conflict in ModSecurity (mod_security) 2.1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass request rules via application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST data that contains an ASCIIZ (0x00) byte, which mod_security treats as a terminator even though it is still processed as normal data by some HTTP parsers including PHP 5.2.0, and possibly parsers in Perl, and Python.

Affected products

Mod Security: 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.9.4 (+1)

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00727143
http://secunia.com/advisories/24373
http://secunia.com/advisories/25316
http://secunia.com/advisories/31087
http://secunia.com/advisories/31113
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-17.xml
http://www.modsecurity.org/blog/archives/2007/03/modsecurity_asc.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2008-090335.html
http://www.osvdb.org/32778
http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/BONUS-12-2007.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22831
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0868

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