CVE-2021-42717: Owasp Modsecurity vulnerability
Owasp · Modsecurity
Vendor fix available · Affected: Owasp Modsecurity · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)
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Higher than 88% of scored CVEs
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DescriptionCVE.org
ModSecurity 3.x through 3.0.5 mishandles excessively nested JSON objects. Crafted JSON objects with nesting tens-of-thousands deep could result in the web server being unable to service legitimate requests. Even a moderately large (e.g., 300KB) HTTP request can occupy one of the limited NGINX worker processes for minutes and consume almost all of the available CPU on the machine. Modsecurity 2 is similarly vulnerable: the affected versions include 2.8.0 through 2.9.4.
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- Exploitation
- Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Owasp
- Published
- December 2021
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