CVE-2025-27110
Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.48%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. The library codebase serves as an interface to ModSecurity Connectors taking in web traffic and applying traditional ModSecurity processing. A bug that exists only in Libmodsecurity3 version 3.0.13 means that, in 3.0.13, Libmodsecurity3 can't decode encoded HTML entities if they contains leading zeroes. Version 3.0.14 contains a fix. No known workarounds are available.
- CVSS 4.0
- 7.9 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.48% probability · 40th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-172
- Affected
- trustwave/modsecurity
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/issues/3340Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-42w7-rmv5-4x2jVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.