MEDIUM 5.8 NVD
CVE-2026-103932
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.5 until 3.0.17, the PCRE2 implementation
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.5 until 3.0.17, the PCRE2 implementation of @rxGlobal in src/utils/regex.cc converts pcre2_match match-limit errors into an ordinary no-match result instead of propagating a non-OK RegexResult. When attacker-controlled input exhausts SecPcreMatchLimit, rules that rely on MSC_PCRE_LIMITS_EXCEEDED or its TX compatibility indicator do not run, so a request that should be rejected can pass through the WAF. The issue affects PCRE2 deployments that use @rxGlobal with a limit-exhaustible expression and a compensating rule; it is not a universal WAF bypass. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.17.
References
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/commit/d92bdc3b2183824ba3c582154b7385ee83
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.17
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-5m93-4h75-3p2w
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.8 was published on 2026-11-05 via NVD.
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