CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-40586

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.61%

44th percentile - higher than 44% of all known CVEs

Summary

OWASP Coraza WAF, a modsecurity compatible web application firewall library, crashes due to misuse of `log.Fatalf`. The application crashes immediately after receiving crafted requests from attackers, triggered by an error in `mime.ParseMediaType`.

Risk Assessment

Organizations using OWASP Coraza WAF may experience downtime of web applications, leading to potential service unavailability and financial losses.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to version 3.0.1, where the issue has been patched, to prevent application crashes due to attacks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. Due to the misuse of `log.Fatalf`, the application using coraza crashed after receiving crafted requests from attackers. The application will immediately crash after receiving a malicious request that triggers an error in `mime.ParseMediaType`. This issue was patched in version 3.0.1.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS