CVE-2025-27110
highpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.005 · 42 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-26
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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.9
ssvc
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weaknesses
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affected products (9)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
advisories (3)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- WID-SEC-W-2025-0437OWASP ModSecurity: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Umgehen von SicherheitsvorkehrungenDeutsch2025-02-25csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in OWASP ModSecurity ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.
- BIT-modsecurity-2025-27110Libmodsecurity3 has possible bypass of encoded HTML entities2025-03-07vendor · osvUS
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.
- BIT-modsecurity2-2025-27110Libmodsecurity3 has possible bypass of encoded HTML entities2025-03-07vendor · osvUS
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.
also known as (6)
Other names and identifiers for this entity.
- CNNVD-202502-2582cnnvd
- EUVD-2025-5324enisa_euvd
- BDU:2025-02209fstec_bdu
- BIT-modsecurity-2025-27110osv
- BIT-modsecurity2-2025-27110osv
- GHSA-42w7-rmv5-4x2josv
sources
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references (10)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-27110cnnvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/issues/3340cnnvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.14Patchcnnvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-42w7-rmv5-4x2jcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27110cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Libmodsecurity-ingress-filtrering-bypass-via-Leading-Zeroes-HTML-Entities-47344cnnvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/issues/3340enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-42w7-rmv5-4x2jenisa_euvd
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