CVE-2025-27110
Libmodsecurity3 has possible bypass of encoded HTML entities
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.9 High
- Published
- Feb 25, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2025
- Reserved
- Feb 18, 2025
Description
Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. The library codebase serves as an interface to ModSecurity Connectors taking in web traffic and applying traditional ModSecurity processing. A bug that exists only in Libmodsecurity3 version 3.0.13 means that, in 3.0.13, Libmodsecurity3 can't decode encoded HTML entities if they contains leading zeroes. Version 3.0.14 contains a fix. No known workarounds are available.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 7.9 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-172 Encoding Error
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
ModSecurityowasp-modsecurity |
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References
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