CVE-2025-47947 HIGH

CVE-2025-47947: ModSecurity Has Possible DoS Vulnerability

Vendor Owasp-Modsecurity
Product ModSecurity
Weakness CWE-1050
Published May 21, 2025
Last update May 22, 2025

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 21, 2025 CVE published
May 22, 2025 Record updated