CVE-2026-107834

OWASP Coraza WAF: Resource exhaustion via deferred file handle accumulation in multipart body processor

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Oct 9, 2026
Updated
Oct 13, 2026
Reserved
Oct 8, 2026

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Description

OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. From 3.0.0 until 3.8.0, the multipart loop in internal/bodyprocessors/multipart.go executes defer temp.Close() for every uploaded file part, so each temporary-file descriptor remains open until the complete request returns. An unauthenticated attacker can submit a multipart body containing many minimal file parts and exhaust the process file-descriptor table within the request-body size limit, causing os.CreateTemp failures, MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR responses, blocked legitimate uploads, and process-wide inability to open files or sockets. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
corazacorazawaf
  • >= 3.0.0, < 3.8.0Affected

References

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