Bug 1879588 (CVE-2020-15598)
| Summary: | CVE-2020-15598 libmodsecurity: specially crafted payload could result in a DoS | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Michael Kaplan <mkaplan> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | athmanem, dridi.boukelmoune |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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| Last Closed: | 2020-09-16 20:41:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1879589, 1879590 | ||
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External References: https://coreruleset.org/20200914/cve-2020-15598/ Created libmodsecurity tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-7 [bug 1879590] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1879589] This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products. |
ModSecurity v3.0.x is affected by a Denial of Service vulnerability due to the global matching of regular expressions. The combination of a non-anchored regular expression and the ModSecurity “capture” action can be exploited via a specially crafted payload. Known Affected Software Configurations: ModSecurity v3.0.0 ModSecurity v3.0.1 ModSecurity v3.0.2 ModSecurity v3.0.3 ModSecurity v3.0.4 (patch for this version available