CVE-2026-30923

High

Description

ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. A segmentation fault occurs when a rule using the t:hexDecode transformation inspects a query string parameter containing a single character. An attacker can exploit this to crash worker processes, causing a denial of service. Service resumes once the attack stops as worker processes recover from the segfault. All versions before 3.0.15 of libModSecurity3 are affected. This has been patched in version 3.0.15.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductOwasp Modsecurity
PublishedMay 5, 2026
First seenMay 5, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • owasp modsecurity3.0.15 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
owasp modsecurityv < 3.0.153.0.15

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