CVE-2025-47947 — ModSecurity Has Possible DoS Vulnerability
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions up to and including 2.9.8 are vulnerable to denial of ser…
Published: 2025-05-21 · CVSS: 7.5 · CVSS 3.1
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions up to and including 2.9.8 are vulnerable to denial of service in one special case (in stable released versions): when the payload's content type is `application/json`, and there is at least one rule which does a `sanitiseMatchedBytes` action. A patch is available at pull request 3389 and expected to be part of version 2.9.9. No known workarounds are available.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7