CVE-2025-47947

ModSecurity Has Possible DoS Vulnerability

Published May 21, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5940-1 modsecurity-apache security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-16086 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7567-1 ModSecurity vulnerabilities
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00107}

epss

{'score': 0.00089}

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First Time appeared Trustwave
Trustwave modsecurity
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:trustwave:modsecurity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Trustwave
Trustwave modsecurity
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat rhel Eus
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4
Vendors & Products Redhat rhel Eus
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat enterprise Linux
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat enterprise Linux
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.8
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.8
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat rhel Aus
Redhat rhel E4s
Redhat rhel Tus
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat rhel Aus
Redhat rhel E4s
Redhat rhel Tus
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title ModSecurity Has Possible DoS Vulnerability
Weaknesses CWE-1050
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
May 22, 2025, 3:51 PM
Reserved
May 14, 2025, 10:32 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
May 21, 2025, 10:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 9:28 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
May 21, 2025, 10:08 PM