# CVE-2020-22669: Modsecurity owasp-modsecurity-crs 3.2.0 (Paranoia level at PL1) has a SQL injection bypass vulnerability.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-09-02 · Updated: 2025-11-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Modsecurity owasp-modsecurity-crs 3.2.0 (Paranoia level at PL1) has a SQL injection bypass vulnerability. Attackers can use the comment characters and variable assignments in the SQL syntax to bypass Modsecurity WAF protection and implement SQL injection attacks on Web applications.

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## References

- https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1727
- https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/pull/1793
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00033.html

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