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CVE-2021-45468

Estado: ModificadaCrítica (9.8)—

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.

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Imperva — WEB Application Firewall

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