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:
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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