CVE-2026-107826

OWASP Coraza WAF: JSON body processor: argument-limit truncation reopens an unbounded-depth gjson.Valid stack overflow (process crash)

Published Oct 9, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. From 3.0.0 until 3.8.1, readJSON in internal/bodyprocessors/json.go can stop its bounded flattening walk after reaching SecArgumentsLimit or the byte budget and then call gjson.Valid on the complete raw body. An unauthenticated attacker can submit shallow values followed by an extremely deeply nested JSON tail that was not visited by the bounded walk, causing gjson.Valid to recurse without a depth bound and terminate the hosting process with an unrecoverable fatal stack overflow. The ProcessRequest and ProcessResponse JSON paths share the affected readJSON validation flow, and the payload can remain within recommended body-size and argument-count limits. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.1.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-6gcq-wc29-5xf2 Coraza JSON body processor: argument-limit truncation reopens an unbounded-depth gjson.Valid stack overflow (process crash)
History
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First Time appeared Coraza
Coraza coraza
Vendors & Products Coraza
Coraza coraza
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Metrics ssvc

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

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Description OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. From 3.0.0 until 3.8.1, readJSON in internal/bodyprocessors/json.go can stop its bounded flattening walk after reaching SecArgumentsLimit or the byte budget and then call gjson.Valid on the complete raw body. An unauthenticated attacker can submit shallow values followed by an extremely deeply nested JSON tail that was not visited by the bounded walk, causing gjson.Valid to recurse without a depth bound and terminate the hosting process with an unrecoverable fatal stack overflow. The ProcessRequest and ProcessResponse JSON paths share the affected readJSON validation flow, and the payload can remain within recommended body-size and argument-count limits. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.1.
Title OWASP Coraza WAF: JSON body processor: argument-limit truncation reopens an unbounded-depth gjson.Valid stack overflow (process crash)
Weaknesses CWE-674
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
Oct 9, 2026, 5:55 PM
Reserved
Oct 8, 2026, 9:23 PM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Oct 9, 2026, 6:17 PM
Modified
Oct 16, 2026, 5:16 PM