{"id":"CVE-2024-46292","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-46292","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:55:41.632Z","title":"A buffer overflow in modsecurity v3.0.12 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted input inserted into the name parameter.","description":"A buffer overflow in modsecurity v3.0.12 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted input inserted into the name parameter. NOTE: this is disputed by the Supplier because it cannot be reproduced. Also, the product's documentation indicates that it is not guaranteed to be usable with very large values of SecRequestBodyNoFilesLimit (which are required by the claimed issue).","published":"2024-10-09T16:15:04.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:55:16.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-120"],"affected":["trustwave/modsecurity"],"epss":{"score":0.00818,"percentile":0.56889,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.82%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/blob/v3/master/README.md","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/yoloflz101/yoloflz/blob/main/README.md","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://modsecurity.org/20241011/about-cve-2024-46292-2024-october/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46292","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}