GHSA-vmg8-j66p-vgvw: ModSecurity: Response Body Inspection Bypass
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.0 until 3.0.17, src/transaction.cc compares a response Content-Type value against SecResponseBodyMimeType entries case-sensitively. A mixed-case response media type that is semantically equivalent to a configured lowercase type can therefore be treated as unconfigured, causing ModSecurity to skip RESPONSEBODY inspection. An unauthenticated requester can then receive response content that a phase 4 rule would otherwise block, including sensitive error or debug data. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.17.
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
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ModSecurityto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 3.0.17