GHSA-5m93-4h75-3p2w: ModSecurity: PCRE2 `@rxGlobal` match-limit errors are converted to no-match

Published Nov 5, 2026
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Updated

ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.5 until 3.0.17, the PCRE2 implementation of @rxGlobal in src/utils/regex.cc converts pcre2match match-limit errors into an ordinary no-match result instead of propagating a non-OK RegexResult. When attacker-controlled input exhausts SecPcreMatchLimit, rules that rely on MSCPCRELIMITSEXCEEDED or its TX compatibility indicator do not run, so a request that should be rejected can pass through the WAF. The issue affects PCRE2 deployments that use @rxGlobal with a limit-exhaustible expression and a compensating rule; it is not a universal WAF bypass. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.17.

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade ModSecurity to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 3.0.17

Event History

Nov 5, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·03:42 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·03:42 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

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