CVE-2020-15598 — Infinite Loop in Modsecurity
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.8%
top 11.92%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
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
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0