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Title : ModSecurity "SecCacheTransformations" Security Bypass Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2795
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
CWE ID : CWE-264
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-10-13

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A vulnerability has been identified in ModSecurity, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an unspecified error within transformation caching (when "SecCacheTransformations" is enabled), which could allow attackers to crash a vulnerable web server or evade ModSecurity.

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2008-10-13 : Initial release

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