CVE-2025-52891 (GCVE-0-2025-52891)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-02 15:03
Modified
2025-07-02 15:27
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Summary
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. In versions 2.9.8 to before 2.9.11, an empty XML tag can cause a segmentation fault. If SecParseXmlIntoArgs is set to On or OnlyArgs, and the request type is application/xml, and at least one XML tag is empty (eg <foo></foo>), then a segmentation fault occurs. This issue has been patched in version 2.9.11. A workaround involves setting SecParseXmlIntoArgs to Off.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
owasp-modsecurity ModSecurity Version: >= 2.9.8, < 2.9.11
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