CVE-2025-47947
highpriority · track · 10EPSS 0.006 · 48 %ileexploit · PoCDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions up to and including 2.9.8 are vulnerable to denial of service in one special case (in stable released versions): when the payload's content type is `application/json`, and there is at least one rule which does a `sanitiseMatchedBytes` action. A patch is available at pull request 3389 and expected to be part of version 2.9.9. 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
ssvc
A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.
weaknesses
The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.
exploits (1)
Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.
- yel1337/CVE-2025-47947POC for libapache2-mod-security2PoC · poc_in_github
affected products (20)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
advisories (3)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- WID-SEC-W-2025-1118OWASP ModSecurity: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of ServiceDeutsch2025-05-21csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in OWASP ModSecurity ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
- BIT-modsecurity-2025-47947ModSecurity Has Possible DoS Vulnerability2025-05-26vendor · osvUS
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions up to and including 2.9.8 are vulnerable to denial of service in one special case (in stable released versions): when the payload's content type is `application/json`, and there is at least one rule which does a `sanitiseMatchedBytes` action. A patch is available at pull request 3389 and expected to be part of version 2.9.9. No known workarounds are available.
- BIT-modsecurity2-2025-47947ModSecurity Has Possible DoS Vulnerability2025-05-26vendor · osvUS
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions up to and including 2.9.8 are vulnerable to denial of service in one special case (in stable released versions): when the payload's content type is `application/json`, and there is at least one rule which does a `sanitiseMatchedBytes` action. A patch is available at pull request 3389 and expected to be part of version 2.9.9. No known workarounds are available.
also known as (7)
Other names and identifiers for this entity.
- CNNVD-202505-3250cnnvd
- EUVD-2025-16086enisa_euvd
- BDU:2025-06207fstec_bdu
- GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8rfstec_bdu
- BIT-modsecurity-2025-47947osv
- BIT-modsecurity2-2025-47947osv
- GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8rosv
sources
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references (8)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/pull/3389cnnvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8rcnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/ModSecurity-overload-via-sanitiseMatchedBytes-47312cnnvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/pull/3389enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8renisa_euvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/pull/3389Issue TrackingPatchnvd
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8rExploitVendor Advisorynvd
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