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CVE-2023-38285

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

7.5 HighFix available

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.90%Up 0.9 points since Jul 27, 2023
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.5

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Record
CVE-2023-38285
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-407
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Record
CVE-2023-38285
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2023-42105 No score

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Record
EUVD-2023-42105
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-wf6m-89q7-h9jh 7.5

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Record
GHSA-wf6m-89q7-h9jh
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-407
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2023-38285 7.5

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38285
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2023-38285 7.5

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38285
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVBIT-modsecurity-2023-38285 No score

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Record
BIT-modsecurity-2023-38285
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBIT-modsecurity2-2023-38285 No score

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Record
BIT-modsecurity2-2023-38285
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.10 has Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity.

Record
CVE-2023-38285
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2023:0257-1 No score

Security update for modsecurity

This update for modsecurity fixes the following issues:

Update to version 3.0.10:

  • Security impacting issue (fix boo#1213702, CVE-2023-38285)

  • Enhancements and bug fixes

    • Add TX synonym for MSC_PCRE_LIMITS_EXCEEDED
    • Make MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS accessible to lua
    • Fix: Lua scripts cannot read whole collection at once
    • Fix: quoted Include config with wildcard
    • Support isolated PCRE match limits
    • Fix: meta actions not applied if multiMatch in first rule of chain
    • Fix: audit log may omit tags when multiMatch
    • Exclude CRLF from MULTIPART_PART_HEADER value
    • Configure: use AS_ECHO_N instead echo -n
    • Adjust position of memset from 2890

Update to version 3.0.9:

  • Add some member variable inits in Transaction class (possible segfault)
  • Fix: possible segfault on reload if duplicate ip+CIDR in ip match list
  • Resolve memory leak on reload (bison-generated variable)
  • Support equals sign in XPath expressions
  • Encode two special chars in error.log output
  • Add JIT support for PCRE2
  • Support comments in ipMatchFromFile file via '#' token
  • Use name package name libmaxminddb with pkg-config
  • Fix: FILES_TMP_CONTENT collection key should use part name
  • Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of obsolete AC_HELP_STRING macro
  • During configure, do not check for pcre if pcre2 specified
  • Use pkg-config to find libxml2 first
  • Fix two rule-reload memory leak issues
  • Correct whitespace handling for Include directive
  • Fix CVE-2023-28882, a segfault and a resultant crash of a worker process in some configurations with certain inputs, boo#1210993

Update to version 3.0.8

  • Adjust parser activation rules in modsecurity.conf-recommended [#2796]
  • Multipart parsing fixes and new MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS collection [#2795]
  • Prevent LMDB related segfault [#2755, #2761]
  • Fix msc_transaction_cleanup function comment typo [#2788]
  • Fix: MULTIPART_INVALID_PART connected to wrong internal variable [#2785]
  • Restore Unique_id to include random portion after timestamp [#2752, #2758]

Update to version 3.0.7

  • Support PCRE2
  • Support SecRequestBodyNoFilesLimit
  • Add ctl:auditEngine action support
  • Move PCRE2 match block from member variable
  • Add SecArgumentsLimit, 200007 to modsecurity.conf-recommended
  • Fix memory leak when concurrent log includes REMOTE_USER
  • Fix LMDB initialization issues
  • Fix initcol error message wording
  • Tolerate other parameters after boundary in multipart C-T
  • Add DebugLog message for bad pattern in rx operator
  • Fix misuses of LMDB API
  • Fix duplication typo in code comment
  • Fix multiMatch msg, etc, population in audit log
  • Fix some name handling for ARGS_*NAMES: regex SecRuleUpdateTargetById, etc.
  • Adjust confusing variable name in setRequestBody method
  • Multipart names/filenames may include single quote if double-quote enclosed
  • Add SecRequestBodyJsonDepthLimit to modsecurity.conf-recommended

Update to version 3.0.6

  • Security issue: Support configurable limit on depth of JSON parsing, possible DoS issue. CVE-2021-42717

Update to version 3.0.5

  • New: Having ARGS_NAMES, variables proxied
  • Fix: FILES variable does not use multipart part name for key
  • GeoIP: switch to GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE from GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE
  • Support configurable limit on number of arguments processed
  • Adds support to lua 5.4
  • Add support for new operator rxGlobal
  • Fix: Replaces put with setenv in SetEnv action
  • Fix: Regex key selection should not be case-sensitive
  • Fix: Only delete Multipart tmp files after rules have run
  • Fixed MatchedVar on chained rules
  • Fix IP address logging in Section A
  • Fix: rx: exit after full match (remove /g emulation); ensure capture groups occuring after unused groups still populate TX vars
  • Fix rule-update-target for…
Record
openSUSE-SU-2023:0257-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2023:0269-1 No score

Security update for modsecurity

This update for modsecurity fixes the following issues:

Update to version 3.0.10:

  • Security impacting issue (fix boo#1213702, CVE-2023-38285)

  • Enhancements and bug fixes

    • Add TX synonym for MSC_PCRE_LIMITS_EXCEEDED
    • Make MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS accessible to lua
    • Fix: Lua scripts cannot read whole collection at once
    • Fix: quoted Include config with wildcard
    • Support isolated PCRE match limits
    • Fix: meta actions not applied if multiMatch in first rule of chain
    • Fix: audit log may omit tags when multiMatch
    • Exclude CRLF from MULTIPART_PART_HEADER value
    • Configure: use AS_ECHO_N instead echo -n
    • Adjust position of memset from 2890

Update to version 3.0.9:

  • Add some member variable inits in Transaction class (possible segfault)
  • Fix: possible segfault on reload if duplicate ip+CIDR in ip match list
  • Resolve memory leak on reload (bison-generated variable)
  • Support equals sign in XPath expressions
  • Encode two special chars in error.log output
  • Add JIT support for PCRE2
  • Support comments in ipMatchFromFile file via '#' token
  • Use name package name libmaxminddb with pkg-config
  • Fix: FILES_TMP_CONTENT collection key should use part name
  • Use AS_HELP_STRING instead of obsolete AC_HELP_STRING macro
  • During configure, do not check for pcre if pcre2 specified
  • Use pkg-config to find libxml2 first
  • Fix two rule-reload memory leak issues
  • Correct whitespace handling for Include directive
  • Fix CVE-2023-28882, a segfault and a resultant crash of a worker process in some configurations with certain inputs, boo#1210993

Update to version 3.0.8

  • Adjust parser activation rules in modsecurity.conf-recommended [#2796]
  • Multipart parsing fixes and new MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS collection [#2795]
  • Prevent LMDB related segfault [#2755, #2761]
  • Fix msc_transaction_cleanup function comment typo [#2788]
  • Fix: MULTIPART_INVALID_PART connected to wrong internal variable [#2785]
  • Restore Unique_id to include random portion after timestamp [#2752, #2758]

Update to version 3.0.7

  • Support PCRE2
  • Support SecRequestBodyNoFilesLimit
  • Add ctl:auditEngine action support
  • Move PCRE2 match block from member variable
  • Add SecArgumentsLimit, 200007 to modsecurity.conf-recommended
  • Fix memory leak when concurrent log includes REMOTE_USER
  • Fix LMDB initialization issues
  • Fix initcol error message wording
  • Tolerate other parameters after boundary in multipart C-T
  • Add DebugLog message for bad pattern in rx operator
  • Fix misuses of LMDB API
  • Fix duplication typo in code comment
  • Fix multiMatch msg, etc, population in audit log
  • Fix some name handling for ARGS_*NAMES: regex SecRuleUpdateTargetById, etc.
  • Adjust confusing variable name in setRequestBody method
  • Multipart names/filenames may include single quote if double-quote enclosed
  • Add SecRequestBodyJsonDepthLimit to modsecurity.conf-recommended

Update to version 3.0.6

  • Security issue: Support configurable limit on depth of JSON parsing, possible DoS issue. CVE-2021-42717

Update to version 3.0.5

  • New: Having ARGS_NAMES, variables proxied
  • Fix: FILES variable does not use multipart part name for key
  • GeoIP: switch to GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE from GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE
  • Support configurable limit on number of arguments processed
  • Adds support to lua 5.4
  • Add support for new operator rxGlobal
  • Fix: Replaces put with setenv in SetEnv action
  • Fix: Regex key selection should not be case-sensitive
  • Fix: Only delete Multipart tmp files after rules have run
  • Fixed MatchedVar on chained rules
  • Fix IP address logging in Section A
  • Fix: rx: exit after full match (remove /g emulation); ensure capture groups occuring after unused groups still populate TX vars
  • Fix rule-update-target for…
Record
openSUSE-SU-2023:0269-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:13195-1 No score

libmodsecurity3-3.0.10-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the libmodsecurity3-3.0.10-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:13195-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
modsecurity
Bitnami
3.0.0 up to 3.0.10
3.0.10
modsecurity2
Bitnami
3.0.0 up to 3.0.10
3.0.10
modsecurity
Debian:12
before 3.0.9-1+deb12u1, plus listed versions
3.0.9-1
3.0.9-1+deb12u1
modsecurity
Debian:13
before 3.0.10-1
3.0.10-1
modsecurity
Debian:14
before 3.0.10-1
3.0.10-1
modsecurity
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
3.0.3-13.0.4-13.0.4-1build1
None known
modsecurity
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
3.0.4-23.0.6-1
None known
modsecurity
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
3.0.10-13.0.11-13.0.12-13.0.12-1.1build13.0.12-1.1build2
None known
modsecurity
SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP5
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 3.0.10-bp155.3.3.1
3.0.10-bp155.3.3.1
modsecurity
openSUSE:Leap 15.5
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 3.0.10-bp155.3.3.1
3.0.10-bp155.3.3.1
modsecurity
SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP4
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 3.0.10-bp154.2.3.1
3.0.10-bp154.2.3.1
modsecurity
openSUSE:Leap 15.4
From an advisory covering 4 CVEs
before 3.0.10-bp154.2.3.1
3.0.10-bp154.2.3.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2023-38285 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Owasp Modsecurity, published July 26, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.90%, the 59th percentile. Fixed in modsecurity 3.0.10.

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