PT-2019-12274 · Owasp+1 · Owasp Modsecurity Core Rule Set+1

0Md3V · Published 2019-04-21 · Updated 2024-08-04 · CVE-2019-11388

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) versions through 3.1.0

Description An issue was discovered in OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ReDOS) by entering a specially crafted string with nested repetition operators in the "/rules/REQUEST-932-APPLICATION-ATTACK-RCE.conf" API endpoint.

Recommendations For OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) versions through 3.1.0, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "/rules/REQUEST-932-APPLICATION-ATTACK-RCE.conf" endpoint until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

RCE

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-11388

Affected Products

Debian

Owasp Modsecurity Core Rule Set

References · 9

• 🔥 https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1372 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11388 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-11388 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11388 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11388 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11388 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11388 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-11388 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1354 · Note