CVE-2023-28882 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Modsecurity

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionCWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 73.72%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Trustwave ModsecurityOwasp Modsecurity
Timeline
PublishedApr 28

Description

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.0.5 through 3.0.8 before 3.0.9 allows a denial of service (worker crash and unresponsiveness) because some inputs cause a segfault in the Transaction class for some configurations.

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 Packages2 packages

▶Debiantrustwave/modsecurity< 3.0.9-1+2
▶NVDowasp/modsecurity3.0.5 — 3.0.9

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
CVE-2023-28882: Trustwave ModSecurity 3↗2023-04-28
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GHSA
GHSA-wgcm-rvmx-wh95: Trustwave ModSecurity 3↗2023-04-28
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CVEList
CVE-2023-28882: Trustwave ModSecurity 3↗2023-04-28
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
mod_security: a segfault and a resultant crash of a worker process in some configurations with certain inputs↗2023-04-28
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Debian
CVE-2023-28882: modsecurity - Trustwave ModSecurity 3.0.5 through 3.0.8 before 3.0.9 allows a denial of servic...↗2023
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