CVE-2025-48866

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
owasp-modsecurityModSecurity< 2.9.10affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1050: CWE-1050: Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

CVE Program Container

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