Security Fix(es):
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.(CVE-2025-48866)
{ "severity": "High" }
{ "src": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2003sp4.src.rpm" ], "aarch64": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2003sp4.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2003sp4.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2003sp4.aarch64.rpm" ], "x86_64": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2003sp4.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2003sp4.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2003sp4.x86_64.rpm" ] }
{ "src": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp3.src.rpm" ], "aarch64": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm" ], "x86_64": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp3.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp3.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp3.x86_64.rpm" ] }
{ "src": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp4.src.rpm" ], "aarch64": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp4.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp4.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp4.aarch64.rpm" ], "x86_64": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp4.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp4.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2203sp4.x86_64.rpm" ] }
{ "src": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.src.rpm", "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2403.src.rpm" ], "aarch64": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2403.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2403.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2403.aarch64.rpm" ], "x86_64": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2403.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2403.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2403.x86_64.rpm" ] }
{ "src": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.src.rpm" ], "aarch64": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm" ], "x86_64": [ "mod_security-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debuginfo-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm", "mod_security-debugsource-2.9.9-2.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm" ] }