CVE-2025-27110

NameCVE-2025-27110
DescriptionLibmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. The library codebase serves as an interface to ModSecurity Connectors taking in web traffic and applying traditional ModSecurity processing. A bug that exists only in Libmodsecurity3 version 3.0.13 means that, in 3.0.13, Libmodsecurity3 can't decode encoded HTML entities if they contains leading zeroes. Version 3.0.14 contains a fix. No known workarounds are available.
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Debian Bugs1098910

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
modsecurity (PTS)bullseye3.0.4-2fixed
bookworm3.0.9-1+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie3.0.14-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
modsecuritysourcebullseye(not affected)
modsecuritysourcebookworm(not affected)
modsecuritysource(unstable)3.0.14-11098910

Notes

[bookworm] - modsecurity <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[bullseye] - modsecurity <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-42w7-rmv5-4x2j
https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/issues/3340
Fixed by: https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/commit/c82e831b6640836eeef6f5418c8482063814dc34 (v3.0.14)

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