CVE-2026-42268
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Publication date: 2026-05-12

Last updated on: 2026-05-14

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description
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.
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Published
2026-05-12
Last Modified
2026-05-14
Generated
2026-05-20
EPSS Evaluated
2026-05-19
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Affected Vendors & Products
Showing 1 associated CPE
Vendor Product Version / Range
owasp modsecurity From 3.0.0 (inc) to 3.0.15 (exc)
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CWE ID Description
CWE-248 An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.
CWE-191 The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result.
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