INFSA-2025:8837: mod_security security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:8837

Type: security

Release date: 2025-07-07 11:41:50 UTC

Information about package

ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2025-47947

    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.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 7.5 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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