DSA-4765-1 modsecurity -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4765-1 modsecurity -- security update

Date Reported:

18 Sep 2020

Affected Packages:

modsecurity

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-15598.

More information:

Ervin Hegedues discovered that ModSecurity v3 enabled global regular expression matching which could result in denial of service. For additional information please refer to https://coreruleset.org/20200914/cve-2020-15598/

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.3-1+deb10u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your modsecurity packages.

For the detailed security status of modsecurity please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/modsecurity