CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-52747

8.6 HIGH Published 2026-07-10 Modified 2026-10-25 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-07-10
Last modified
2026-10-25
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-180

Description

ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Prior to 3.0.16, the multipart/form-data request body parser in libmodsecurity silently removes embedded line breaks from non-file form-field values before exporting them to ARGS and ARGS_POST because src/request_body_processor/multipart.cc overwrites reserved bytes in m_reserve instead of appending the current buffer. This creates a parser differential between ModSecurity and backend applications that preserve line breaks in form fields, allowing rules that inspect ARGS or ARGS_POST to miss payloads whose dangerous syntax depends on a line break. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.16.

Affected configurations

• owasp modsecurity (< 3.0.16)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-180 Incorrect Behavior Order: Validate Before Canonicalize weakness

References