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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-42268 EUVD-2026-29854

ModSecurity: Unsigned integer underflow in @verifySSN / @verifyCPF / @verifySVNR operators

Published May 12, 2026 · Updated May 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.0 to before 3.0.15, there is an unhandled exception (std::out_of_range) caused by unsigned integer underflow in libmodsecurity3 if the user (administrator) uses a rule any of @verifySSN, @verifyCPF, or @verifySVNR. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.0.15.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
owasp-modsecurity ModSecurity >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.15 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 modsecurity 3.0.15-1 —
Debian 13 modsecurity 3.0.14-1+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 modsecurity 3.0.9-1+deb12u2 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 modsecurity No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS modsecurity No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 modsecurity No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS modsecurity No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS modsecurity No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS modsecurity No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed modsecurity 3.0.15-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10732-1

Advisories 2

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