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CVE-2022-2255

Publication date 22 July 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
mod-wsgi 22.10 kinetic
Fixed 4.9.0-1ubuntu1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 4.9.0-1ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 4.6.8-1ubuntu3.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 4.5.17-1ubuntu1.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
mod-wsgi

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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