PT-2023-22029 · Trustwave+2 · Modsecurity+2

Airween + 3 · CVE-2023-28882 · Published 2023-04-28 · Updated 2026-03-18

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Trustwave ModSecurity versions 3.0.5 through 3.0.8

Description The issue allows a denial of service, causing worker crash and unresponsiveness. This occurs because some inputs cause a segfault in the Transaction class for certain configurations.

Recommendations For Trustwave ModSecurity versions 3.0.5 through 3.0.8, update to version 3.0.9 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

CWE-770

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2023-6640

BIT-MODSECURITY-2023-28882

BIT-MODSECURITY2-2023-28882

CVE-2023-28882

OPENSUSE-SU-2023:0257-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2023:0269-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12937-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Modsecurity

Red Os

References · 25

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/28xxx/CVE-2023-28882.json · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28882 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-28882 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2023:0269-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-28882 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-28882 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2023:0257-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28882 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-modsecurity-2023-28882 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-28882 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-28882 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-modsecurity2-2023-28882 · Vendor Advisory
• https://trustwave.com/en-us/resources/security-resources/software-updates/announcing-modsecurity-version-309 · Note
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/ILAHCTDLNZCBSVGSQN2ZDHVDHYE2OZ2N · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15598 · Note