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CVE-2025-48866
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-06-02T16:15:29.900 · Last modified 2026-06-17T09:30:24.437

Summary

ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions prior to 2.9.10 contain a denial of service vulnerability similar to GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8r/CVE-2025-47947. The `sanitiseArg` (and `sanitizeArg` - this is the same action but an alias) is vulnerable to adding an excessive number of arguments, thereby leading to denial of service. Version 2.9.10 fixes the issue. As a workaround, avoid using rules that contain the `sanitiseArg` (or `sanitizeArg`) action.

Affected products

owasp — modsecurity

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References

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