CVE-2026-30923
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.
Published:May 5, 2026
Last Modified:May 7, 2026
EPS:May 5, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00042
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Modsecurity
Product
Modsecurity
Modsecurity
Modsecurity
Vendor
Owasp
Product
Modsecurity
Owasp
Modsecurity
Exploits
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
