CVE Alert: CVE-2025-52891
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-52891
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. In versions 2.9.8 to before 2.9.11, an empty XML tag can cause a segmentation fault. If SecParseXmlIntoArgs is set to On or OnlyArgs, and the request type is application/xml, and at least one XML tag is empty (eg
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
7/2/2025, 3:15:27 PM
⚠️ CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/commit/ecd7b9736836eee391d25f35d5bd06a3ce35a45d
- https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-gw9c-4wfm-vj3x
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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