Encoding Error Affecting owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity package, versions [,3.0.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OWASPMODSECURITYMODSECURITY-8747161
  • published26 Feb 2025
  • disclosed25 Feb 2025
  • credittheseion

Introduced: 25 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2025-27110  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-172  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity to version 3.0.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Encoding Error due to improper decoding of encoded HTML entities with leading zeroes allowing crafted payloads to evade inspection.

CVSS Scores

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version 3.1