HIGHCVSS v3.1 7.5Vulnerability
CVE-2026-73857
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.15 until 3.0.17, XML request body processing with SecParseXmlIntoArgs set to On or OnlyArgs can leave XMLNodes::parsing_ctx_arg uninitialized in the SAX end-element callback. A single crafted unauthenticated HTTP request can make a worker dereference the pointer, resulting in a constant-value write to an attacker-controlled address. The resulting memory corruption can terminate the worker and may disclose memory or redirect execution. Earlier 3.0.x releases and ModSecurity 2.x do not use the affected path. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.17.
Properties
- Severity
- HIGH
- Nvd fetched at
- 2026-11-10T23:33:48.924589+00:00
- Epss score
- 0.00402
- Cvss severity
- HIGH
- Cvss score
- 7.5
- Retrieved at
- 2026-11-10T23:35:19+00:00
- Last source
- FIRST EPSS
- Score
- 7.5
- Cvss version
- 3.1
- Cve id
- CVE-2026-73857
- Cvss vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- First seen by Signal
- 2026-11-10T03:20:43+00:00
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Published at
- 2026-11-09T22:18:54.253
- Last modified
- 2026-11-10T17:17:47.647
- Epss percentile
- 0.3481
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