CVE-2026-21876 — Incomplete Filtering of Multiple Instances of Special Elements in Modsecurity Core Rule SET
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.85%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 8
Description
The OWASP core rule set (CRS) is a set of generic attack detection rules for use with compatible web application firewalls. Prior to versions 4.22.0 and 3.3.8, the current rule 922110 has a bug when processing multipart requests with multiple parts. When the first rule in a chain iterates over a collection (like `MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS`), the capture variables (`TX:0`, `TX:1`) get overwritten with each iteration. Only the last captured value is available to the chained rule, which means maliciou…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4
Affected Packages3 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
1OSV▶
CVE-2026-21876: The OWASP core rule set (CRS) is a set of generic attack detection rules for use with compatible web application firewalls↗2026-01-08
📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2026-21876: modsecurity-crs - The OWASP core rule set (CRS) is a set of generic attack detection rules for use...↗2026