CVE-2026-61813
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Summary: ModSecurity: Incorrect libcurl TLS hostname verification setting in HttpsClient::download
Details: ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Prior to 2.9.15 and 3.0.17, the HttpsClient::download function in src/utils/https_client.cc sets libcurl CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to 1 instead of the strict value 2L. Under adversary-in-the-middle and TLS interception conditions, this non-strict setting may weaken TLS peer identity validation and increase the risk of accepting a certificate for an unintended host. End-to-end exploitation is non-trivial in typical environments. This issue is fixed in versions 2.9.15 and 3.0.17.
References: https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v2.9.15, https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/releases/tag/v3.0.17, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/61xxx/CVE-2026-61813.json, https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/security/advisories/GHSA-2vqc-36qp-ccmw, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61813, https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/commit/cce204806430e4848327aadeb9113e654631a0c1, https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity/commit/edca70d853bfb725325137fa40d178beebc324fc
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