CVE-2025-47947 — Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop in Modsecurity
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 33.45%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 21
Latest updateJun 13
Description
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions up to and including 2.9.8 are vulnerable to denial of service in one special case (in stable released versions): when the payload's content type is `application/json`, and there is at least one rule which does a `sanitiseMatchedBytes` action. A patch is available at pull request 3389 and expected to be part of version 2.9.9. No known workarounds are available.
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
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
4Debian▶
CVE-2025-47947: modsecurity-apache - ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) eng...↗2025