ModSecurity: Transformation utf8toUnicode produces wrong output on i386 architecture
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.0 through 3.0.15, the t:utf8toUnicode transformation in src/actions/transformations/utf8_to_unicode.cc produces wrong output on i386 architecture because snprintf uses sizeof on a char pointer rather than the length of the unicode buffer, allowing rules that use this transformation to be bypassed on i386 architecture. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.16.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-52761US | medium5.3 | — | ||
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.0 through 3.0.15, the t:utf8toUnicode transformation in src/… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/commit/edcd010814e234d46e2ec55a0f1078ff9d3032e4FIX
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.16ARTICLE
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-qjgm-7gp4-f8qqADVISORY
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52761WEB
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