NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting spiderlabs/modsecurity package, versions [,2.7.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
8.45% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SPIDERLABSMODSECURITY-2364491
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Jul 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Jul 2013

CVE-2013-2765  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade spiderlabs/modsecurity to version 2.7.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. The ModSecurity module before 2.7.4 for the Apache HTTP Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, process crash, and disk consumption) via a POST request with a large body and a crafted Content-Type header.

CVSS Base Scores

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