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


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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
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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'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2025-05-21T22:08:31.982Z

Updated: 2025-05-22T15:51:50.750Z

Reserved: 2025-05-14T10:32:43.530Z

Link: CVE-2025-47947

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-22T15:51:42.297Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-05-21T22:15:50.963

Modified: 2025-05-23T15:55:02.040

Link: CVE-2025-47947

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2025-05-21T22:08:31Z

Links: CVE-2025-47947 - Bugzilla