CVE-2026-52761 PUBLISHED

ModSecurity: Transformation utf8toUnicode produces wrong output on i386 architecture

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 08.06.2026 Published: 10.07.2026 Updated: 10.07.2026

ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.0 through 3.0.15, the t:utf8toUnicode transformation in src/actions/transformations/utf8_to_unicode.cc produces wrong output on i386 architecture because snprintf uses sizeof on a char pointer rather than the length of the unicode buffer, allowing rules that use this transformation to be bypassed on i386 architecture. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.16.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.8

Product Status

Vendor owasp-modsecurity
Product ModSecurity
Versions
  • Version >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.16 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-467: Use of sizeof() on a Pointer Type CWE