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CVE-2026-61812

6.3 MEDIUM Fix listed Other Browser & mail

What it is

ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Prior to 2.9.15 and 3.0.17, t:htmlEntityDecode recognizes only a small subset of named HTML entities, so rules that depend on the transformation can inspect different bytes than a browser or backend. Attackers can encode ASCII separators and operators with unhandled entity names, including aliases, to bypass rules that depend on the transformation. The v3 decoder also accepts prefix matches instead of requiring an exact entity-token length, which can transform invalid longer names into different bytes. This issue is fixed in versions 2.9.15 and 3.0.17.

At a glance

Exploitability
Can be exploited over the network without logging in. Limited direct impact.
Fix
A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.

Timeline

  1. ReservedThe CVE id was reserved by its CNA
  2. PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
  3. Last updatedMost recent change to the record

Why it ranks here

Details

Published
Last modified
Weakness
CWE-172
Record status
Received

Affected

Attack profile CVSS 4.0 · 6.3

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Attack requirements
Present
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Raw vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N

Is it in your code?

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Fix and advisories

References

NVD record · CVE.org record