CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-11390
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-04-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
An issue was discovered in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) through 3.1.0. /rules/REQUEST-933-APPLICATION-ATTACK-PHP.conf allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ReDOS) by entering a specially crafted string with set_error_handler# at the beginning and nested repetition operators. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes that this is a vulnerability because the issue cannot be exploited via ModSecurity
Affected configurations
• modsecurity owasp modsecurity core rule set (<= 3.1.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1358 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1372 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1358 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1372 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory