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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2021-45468 EUVD-2021-32234GHSA-332m-xp6m-r638

Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) before 2021-12-23 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to use "Content-Encoding: gzip" to evade W…

Published Jan 14, 2022 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) before 2021-12-23 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to use "Content-Encoding: gzip" to evade WAF security controls and send malicious HTTP POST requests to web servers behind the WAF.

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

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