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TI-2024-30920 Aliases CVE-2024-46292GHSA-gmcv-mjv9-gjcv

A buffer overflow in modsecurity v3.0.12 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service…

Priority HIGH 72CWE-120Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-120 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

A buffer overflow in modsecurity v3.0.12 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted input inserted into the name parameter. NOTE: this is disputed by the Supplier because it cannot be reproduced. Also, the product's documentation indicates that it is not guaranteed to be usable with very large values of SecRequestBodyNoFilesLimit (which are required by the claimed issue).

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00818 57th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:trustwave:modsecurity:3.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*3.0.12VulnerableTrustwave
  • cpe:2.3:a:trustwave:modsecurity:3.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 3.0.12 Vulnerable ·Trustwave

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 4 products
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-46292
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-gmcv-mjv9-gjcv

References

Advisory 2

Other 1

  • TI-2025-19980 Libmodsecurity3 has possible bypass of encoded HTML entities CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.9
  • TI-2025-30340 ModSecurity Has Possible DoS Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2023-09806 Incorrect handling of '\0' bytes in file uploads in ModSecurity before 2.9.7 may allow… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2022-23897 In ModSecurity before 2.9.6 and 3.x before 3.0.8, HTTP multipart requests were… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2013-01691 ModSecurity before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2021-18927 ModSecurity 3.x through 3.0.5 mishandles excessively nested JSON objects. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
See all 13 →

Sources

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