CVE-2025-48866

A denial of service flaw was found in ModSecurity. This vulnerability is present in the sanitiseArg/sanitizeArg function can be overloaded with a large number of arguments which will lead to excessive memory usage when processing json values. This may lead to a denial of service in the affected web server should memory limits be exceeded.

User configuration must have at least one rule that does a sanitiseMatchedBytes action to be affected. Default configurations are not affected.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.