Bug 2499332 - CVE-2026-52761 mod_security: ModSecurity: Web Application Firewall rules bypass due to incorrect UTF-8 to Unicode transformation [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-52761 mod_security: ModSecurity: Web Application Firewall rules bypa...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mod_security
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Luboš Uhliarik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["6ba5f4d3-7c70-45b2-b094-5...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-52761
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Reported: 2026-07-11 07:23 UTC by Ganesh
Modified: 2026-07-22 19:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-07-22 19:39:35 UTC
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Description Ganesh 2026-07-11 07:23:47 UTC
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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.

Comment 1 Luboš Uhliarik 2026-07-22 19:39:35 UTC
Does NOT affect mod_security v2 which is present in Fedora.


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