CVE-2020-15598Infinite Loop in Modsecurity

CWE-835Infinite Loop9 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.8%
top 11.92%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedOct 6
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x through 3.0.4 allows denial of service via a special request. NOTE: The discoverer reports "Trustwave has signaled they are disputing our claims." The CVE suggests that there is a security issue with how ModSecurity handles regular expressions that can result in a Denial of Service condition. The vendor does not consider this as a security issue because1) there is no default configuration issue here. An attacker would need to know that a rule using a potentially problem

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

Debiantrustwave/modsecurity< 3.0.4-2+3
Ubuntutrustwave/modsecurity< 3.0.4-2
NVDowasp/modsecurity3.0.03.0.4

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-ff2c-wgr6-2p58: ** DISPUTED ** Trustwave ModSecurity 32022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2020-15598: Trustwave ModSecurity 32020-10-06
CVEList
CVE-2020-15598: Trustwave ModSecurity 32020-10-06
OSV
CVE-2020-15598: ** DISPUTED ** Trustwave ModSecurity 32020-10-06

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2020-15598: modsecurity - Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x through 3.0.4 allows denial of service via a special r...2020

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-15598 libmodsecurity: specially crafted payload could result in a DoS [epel-7]2020-09-16
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-15598 libmodsecurity: specially crafted payload could result in a DoS [fedora-all]2020-09-16
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-15598 libmodsecurity: specially crafted payload could result in a DoS2020-09-16
CVE-2020-15598 — Infinite Loop in Owasp Modsecurity | cvebase