CVE-2021-45468

high-risk
Published 2022-01-14

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.

Do I need to act?

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33.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 67% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

53
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 16/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal