Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop Affecting spiderlabs/modsecurity package, versions [,2.9.9)
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- published10 Jun 2025
- disclosed21 May 2025
- creditSimon Studer
Introduced: 21 May 2025
NewCVE-2025-47947 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade spiderlabs/modsecurity to version 2.9.9 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop via the sanitiseMatchedBytes action when the payload's content type is application/json. An attacker can cause the application to become unresponsive by sending specially crafted JSON payloads that trigger extensive resource consumption.
Note:
The issue affects only the mod_security2 Apache2 module, and only when using the sanitiseArg (or sanitizeArg) action.
Details
Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.
Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.
One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.
When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.
Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:
High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.
Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm
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