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CVE-2018-16384

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

A SQL injection bypass (aka PL1 bypass) exists in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (owasp-modsecurity-crs) through v3.1.0-rc3 via {`a`b} where a is a special function name (such as "if") and b is the SQL statement to be executed.

Affected products

• coreruleset: through 3.0.2; 3.1.0-rc1, 3.1.0-rc3

References

• https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1167
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html
• https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1167
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html

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