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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-03-07 20:58

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

Libmodsecurity3 has possible bypass of encoded HTML entities

Details

Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. The library codebase serves as an interface to ModSecurity Connectors taking in web traffic and applying traditional ModSecurity processing. A bug that exists only in Libmodsecurity3 version 3.0.13 means that, in 3.0.13, Libmodsecurity3 can't decode encoded HTML entities if they contains leading zeroes. Version 3.0.14 contains a fix. No known workarounds are available.

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      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "modsecurity",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/modsecurity"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3.0.13"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.0.14"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-27110"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:trustwave:modsecurity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. The library codebase serves as an interface to ModSecurity Connectors taking in web traffic and applying traditional ModSecurity processing. A bug that exists only in Libmodsecurity3 version 3.0.13 means that, in 3.0.13, Libmodsecurity3 can\u0027t decode encoded HTML entities if they contains leading zeroes. Version 3.0.14 contains a fix. No known workarounds are available.",
  "id": "BIT-modsecurity-2025-27110",
  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
  "published": "2025-03-07T20:58:41.959Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/issues/3340"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-42w7-rmv5-4x2j"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27110"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Libmodsecurity3 has possible bypass of encoded HTML entities"
}

CVE-2025-27110 (GCVE-0-2025-27110)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-25 20:00 – Updated: 2025-02-26 16:38

Title

Libmodsecurity3 has possible bypass of encoded HTML entities

Summary

Severity ?

7.9 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

CWE

CWE-172 - Encoding Error

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	owasp-modsecurity	ModSecurity	Affected: = 3.0.13

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                  }
                ],
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                "timestamp": "2025-02-26T16:37:26.215817Z",
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CVE-2025-27110 (GCVE-0-2025-27110)

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