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CVE-2025-48866

ModSecurity has possible DoS vulnerability in sanitiseArg action PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
owasp-modsecurity / ModSecurityaffected < 2.9.10

CWE

CWE-1050

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