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ModSecurity Denial of Service Vulnerability

Release Date: 7 May 2026 2703 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Security software and application - Security Software & Appliance

TYPE: Security Software & Appliance

A vulnerability was identified in ModSecurity. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger denial of service condition on the targeted system.

 

Note:

Proof of Concept exploit code is publicly available for CVE-2026-30923. Under specific configurations, a query string that contains a single character is enough to cause a segfault, this can be abused in a denial of service attack by a simple one liner bash script.


Impact

  • Denial of Service

System / Technologies affected

  • libModSecurity3 version 3.0.15

Solutions

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