CVE-2025-47947

NameCVE-2025-47947
DescriptionModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions up to and including 2.9.8 are vulnerable to denial of service in one special case (in stable released versions): when the payload's content type is `application/json`, and there is at least one rule which does a `sanitiseMatchedBytes` action. A patch is available at pull request 3389 and expected to be part of version 2.9.9. No known workarounds are available.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1106286

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
modsecurity-apache (PTS)bullseye2.9.3-3+deb11u2vulnerable
bullseye (security)2.9.3-3+deb11u1vulnerable
bookworm2.9.7-1vulnerable
trixie2.9.8-1.1vulnerable
sid2.9.9-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
modsecurity-apachesource(unstable)2.9.9-11106286

Notes

https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8r

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