vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-7567-1 (CVE-2025-48866): ModSecurity vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 2, 2025
Added
Jun 17, 2025
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libapache2-mod-security2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libapache2-modsecurityubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-security2
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