Debian update for modsecurity
| Risk | Medium |
| Patch available | YES |
| Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
| CVE-ID | CVE-2020-15598 |
| CWE-ID | CWE-400 |
| Exploitation vector | Network |
| Public exploit | N/A |
| Vulnerable software Subscribe |
modsecurity (Debian package) Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component |
| Vendor | Debian |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion
EUVDB-ID: #VU46766
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15598
CWE-ID:
CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources while performing global matching of regular expressions in a combination of the ModSecurity “capture” action. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
MitigationUpdate modsecurity package to version 3.0.3-1+deb10u2.
Vulnerable software versionsmodsecurity (Debian package): 3.0.3-1+deb10u1
External linkshttp://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4765
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.
