CVE-2026-42268

FAUCET Score

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.

First published: May 12, 2026Last modified: May 12, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.15CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:owasp:modsecurity::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

8.2HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Attack Requirements

PRESENT

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

VS Confidentiality

NONE

VS Integrity

NONE

VS Availability

HIGH

SS Confidentiality

NONE

SS Integrity

NONE

SS Availability

NONE

Exploit Maturity

NOT_DEFINED

CvssVersion

4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.40%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

32.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 12th 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

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

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References

github.com / owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-vwr3-7x7g-7p9w

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