What is CVE-2023-28882?

CVE-2023-28882 is a high-severity vulnerability in Owasp Modsecurity, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-04-28.

How severe is CVE-2023-28882?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Owasp Modsecurity

CVE-2023-28882

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.0.5 through 3.0.8 before 3.0.9 allows a denial of service (worker crash and unresponsiveness) because some inputs cause a segfault in the Transaction class for some configurations.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.007 (50.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Owasp Modsecurity
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@mitre.org (Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-28882?: CVE-2023-28882 is a high-severity vulnerability in Owasp Modsecurity, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-04-28.
How severe is CVE-2023-28882?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.