CVE-2025-27110
Libmodsecurity3 HTML Entity Decoding Vulnerability
Description
Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. The library codebase serves as an interface to ModSecurity Connectors taking in web traffic and applying traditional ModSecurity processing. A bug that exists only in Libmodsecurity3 version 3.0.13 means that, in 3.0.13, Libmodsecurity3 can't decode encoded HTML entities if they contains leading zeroes. Version 3.0.14 contains a fix. No known workarounds are available.
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Published Date :
Feb. 25, 2025, 8:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
Feb. 25, 2025, 8:15 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
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CVE-2025-27110.
| URL | Resource |
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| https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/issues/3340 | |
| https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-42w7-rmv5-4x2j |
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New CVE Received by [email protected]
Feb. 25, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Description Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. The library codebase serves as an interface to ModSecurity Connectors taking in web traffic and applying traditional ModSecurity processing. A bug that exists only in Libmodsecurity3 version 3.0.13 means that, in 3.0.13, Libmodsecurity3 can't decode encoded HTML entities if they contains leading zeroes. Version 3.0.14 contains a fix. No known workarounds are available. Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X Added CWE CWE-172 Added Reference https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/issues/3340 Added Reference https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-42w7-rmv5-4x2j
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