CVE-2026-107833: OWASP Coraza WAF: Unbounded recursion in JSON response body processor causes CPU exhaustion
corazawaf · coraza
Affected: corazawaf · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 33% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. From 3.0.0 until 3.8.0, ProcessResponse in internal/bodyprocessors/json.go passes the ignoreJSONRecursionLimit value of -1 to readJSON, while the recursive guard only stops at zero. A network attacker who can cause an application protected by Coraza to return deeply nested JSON can make response-body processing perform quadratic work, consuming one CPU core for seconds per response within the default ResponseBodyLimit. Request JSON processing is not affected by this specific path because it uses the configured request recursion limit, and exploitation requires response-body inspection to be enabled. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.0.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- corazawaf · coraza>= 3.0.0, < 3.8.0
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- corazawaf
- Published
- October 2026
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