CVE-2026-21876 PUBLISHED

OWASP CRS has multipart bypass using multiple content-type parts

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.01.2026 Published: 08.01.2026 Updated: 08.01.2026

The OWASP core rule set (CRS) is a set of generic attack detection rules for use with compatible web application firewalls. Prior to versions 4.22.0 and 3.3.8, the current rule 922110 has a bug when processing multipart requests with multiple parts. When the first rule in a chain iterates over a collection (like MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS), the capture variables (TX:0, TX:1) get overwritten with each iteration. Only the last captured value is available to the chained rule, which means malicious charsets in earlier parts can be missed if a later part has a legitimate charset. Versions 4.22.0 and 3.3.8 patch the issue.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor coreruleset
Product coreruleset
Versions
  • Version < 4.22.0 is affected
  • Version < 3.3.8 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-794: Incomplete Filtering of Multiple Instances of Special Elements CWE