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OESA-2025-2013 (CVE-2025-54571)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2025-08-15 11:09 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:09 – Source website

Summary

mod_security security update

Details

Security Fix(es):

ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. In versions 2.9.11 and below, an attacker can override the HTTP response’s Content-Type, which could lead to several issues depending on the HTTP scenario. For example, we have demonstrated the potential for XSS and arbitrary script source code disclosure in the latest version of mod_security2. This issue is fixed in version 2.9.12.(CVE-2025-54571)

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


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

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54571	ADVISORY

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          "mod_security-2.9.12-1.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
          "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.12-1.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
          "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.12-1.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm"
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        "src": [
          "mod_security-2.9.12-1.oe2403sp1.src.rpm"
        ],
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  },
  "details": "Security Fix(es):\n\nModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. In versions 2.9.11\nand below, an attacker can override the HTTP response\u2019s Content-Type, which could lead to several issues depending on the HTTP scenario. For example, we have demonstrated the potential for XSS and arbitrary script source code disclosure in the latest version of mod_security2. This issue is fixed in version 2.9.12.(CVE-2025-54571)",
  "id": "OESA-2025-2013",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:09:05Z",
  "published": "2025-08-15T11:09:05Z",
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    },
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    }
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  ],
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}

CVE-2025-54571 (GCVE-0-2025-54571)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-05 23:39 – Updated: 2025-11-03 18:13

Title

ModSecurity's Insufficient Return Value Handling can Lead to XSS and Source Code Disclosure

Summary

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-06 20:31 UTC

CWE

CWE-252 - Unchecked Return Value

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
owasp-modsecurity	ModSecurity	Affected: < 2.9.12

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