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High · 8.6 CVE-2026-52747 EUVD-2026-43047

ModSecurity: Multipart form-data parser silently strips embedded line breaks from form-field values, enabling request-body inspection bypass

Published Jul 10, 2026 · Updated Jul 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Prior to 3.0.16, the multipart/form-data request body parser in libmodsecurity silently removes embedded line breaks from non-file form-field values before exporting them to ARGS and ARGS_POST because src/request_body_processor/multipart.cc overwrites reserved bytes in m_reserve instead of appending the current buffer. This creates a parser differential between ModSecurity and backend applications that preserve line breaks in form fields, allowing rules that inspect ARGS or ARGS_POST to miss payloads whose dangerous syntax depends on a line break. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.16.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
owasp-modsecurity ModSecurity < 3.0.16 —

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 3.0.16-1 —
Debian 13 modsecurity No fix yet —
Debian 12 modsecurity No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 modsecurity No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS modsecurity No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS modsecurity No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS modsecurity No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS modsecurity No fix yet —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 mod_security No fix yet —

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