Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x through 3.0.4 allows denial of service via a special request. NOTE: The discoverer reports "Trustwave has signaled they are disputing our claims." The CVE suggests that there is a security issue with how ModSecurity handles regular expressions that can result in a Denial of Service condition. The vendor does not consider this as a security issue because1) there is no default configuration issue here. An attacker would need to know that a rule using a potentially problematic regular expression was in place, 2) the attacker would need to know the basic nature of the regular expression itself to exploit any resource issues. It's well known that regular expression usage can be taxing on system resources regardless of the use case. It is up to the administrator to decide on when it is appropriate to trade resources for potential security benefit
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159185/ModSecurity-3.0.x-Denial-Of-Service.html | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Sep/32 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
| https://coreruleset.org/20200914/cve-2020-15598/ | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4765 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.modsecurity.org | Product Vendor Advisory |
Configurations
History
07 Nov 2023, 03:17
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x through 3.0.4 allows denial of service via a special request. NOTE: The discoverer reports "Trustwave has signaled they are disputing our claims." The CVE suggests that there is a security issue with how ModSecurity handles regular expressions that can result in a Denial of Service condition. The vendor does not consider this as a security issue because1) there is no default configuration issue here. An attacker would need to know that a rule using a potentially problematic regular expression was in place, 2) the attacker would need to know the basic nature of the regular expression itself to exploit any resource issues. It's well known that regular expression usage can be taxing on system resources regardless of the use case. It is up to the administrator to decide on when it is appropriate to trade resources for potential security benefit |
Information
Published : 2020-10-06 14:15
Updated : 2024-08-04 14:15
NVD link : CVE-2020-15598
Mitre link : CVE-2020-15598
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-15598
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Products Affected
trustwave
- modsecurity
debian
- debian_linux
CWE
CWE-835
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')