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CVE-2025-48866

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-48866 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting ModSecurity versions prior to 2.9.10. The flaw stems from the "sanitiseArg" action, which can be manipulated to add an excessive number of arguments, leading to resource exhaustion. Rated 7.5 HIGH on CVSS, this vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in a complete loss of availability for affected web applications. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.9.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:owasp:modsecurity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
52.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0080 is in the 28th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: mod_security-0:2.9.6-2.el9_6.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: mod_security-0:2.9.3-12.el9_0.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: mod_security-0:2.9.6-1.el9_2.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: mod_security-0:2.9.6-1.el9_4.2
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: mod_security
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mod_security
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Core ServicesFixed in: mod_security

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2025-48866Moderate

mod_security: ModSecurity Denial of Service Vulnerability

Jun 2, 2025

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/06/msg00009.html
Mailing List
github.com / owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/commit/3a54ccea62d3f7151bb08cb78d60c5e90b53ca2e
Patch
github.com / owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8r
Not Applicable
github.com / owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-f82j-8pp7-cw2w
ExploitVendor Advisory
github.com / owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/wiki/Reference-Manual-(v2.x)
Product