CVE-2025-48866 (GCVE-0-2025-48866)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-02 15:46 – Updated: 2025-06-09 15:03
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ModSecurity has possible DoS vulnerability in sanitiseArg action
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-02 15:52 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1050 - Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025… |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| owasp-modsecurity | ModSecurity |
Affected:
< 2.9.10
|
guessed |
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