CVE-2023-28882

⚠️ high

Summary

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.0.5 through 3.0.8 before 3.0.9 allows a denial of service (worker crash and unresponsiveness) because some inputs cause a segfault in the Transaction class for some configurations.

CVSS Score

7.5

High

EPSS Score

0.1

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2023-04-28

First Seen: 2026-01-05

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Moderate Risk - more severe than 69.0% of all 326,604 vulnerabilities in our database.

#101,315

Above average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jan 30, 2025

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

YES

Can be exploited automatically

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2025-07-03

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-400 CWE-770

📦 Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
owasp	modsecurity	Affected	≥ 3.0.5 < 3.0.9

🔗 References 1

https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/security-r...

Release Notes

🔗 Related CVEs 6

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CVE-2025-54571	🔶 medium	6.1	0.1	ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. In versio...	2025-08-06
CVE-2025-48866	⚠️ high	7.5	0.3	ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions ...	2025-06-02
CVE-2024-1019	⚠️ high	8.6	0.3	ModSecurity / libModSecurity 3.0.0 to 3.0.11 is affected by a WAF bypass for path-based payloads submitted via specially...	2024-01-30
CVE-2023-38285	⚠️ high	7.5	0.5	Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.	2023-07-26

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