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Low · 3.7 CVE-2026-61813 EUVD-2026-117553

ModSecurity: Incorrect libcurl TLS hostname verification setting in HttpsClient::download

Published Nov 5, 2026 · Updated Nov 9, 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 2.9.15 and 3.0.17, the HttpsClient::download function in src/utils/https_client.cc sets libcurl CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to 1 instead of the strict value 2L. Under adversary-in-the-middle and TLS interception conditions, this non-strict setting may weaken TLS peer identity validation and increase the risk of accepting a certificate for an unintended host. End-to-end exploitation is non-trivial in typical environments. This issue is fixed in versions 2.9.15 and 3.0.17.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
owasp-modsecurity ModSecurity < 2.9.15, >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.17 —

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 +1 No fix yet —
Debian 13 modsecurity +1 No fix yet —
Debian 12 modsecurity +1 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 modsecurity +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS modsecurity +1 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 —
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS modsecurity-apache No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS modsecurity-apache No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS modsecurity-apache No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS modsecurity-apache No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS modsecurity-apache No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS modsecurity-apache No fix yet —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 mod_security No fix yet —

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