SB2020091642 - Denial of service in ModSecurity
Published: September 16, 2020 Updated: July 8, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020091642
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15598)
The 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.