Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 2, 2025· Updated Jun 9, 2025
ModSecurity has possible DoS vulnerability in sanitiseArg action
CVE-2025-48866
Description
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions prior to 2.9.10 contain a denial of service vulnerability similar to GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8r/CVE-2025-47947. The sanitiseArg (and sanitizeArg - this is the same action but an alias) is vulnerable to adding an excessive number of arguments, thereby leading to denial of service. Version 2.9.10 fixes the issue. As a workaround, avoid using rules that contain the sanitiseArg (or sanitizeArg) action.
Affected products
1- Range: < 2.9.10
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
3- github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/commit/3a54ccea62d3f7151bb08cb78d60c5e90b53ca2emitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8rmitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-f82j-8pp7-cw2wmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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