ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx.
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Prior to 2.9.15 and 3.0.17, the HttpsClient::download function in src/utils/https_client.cc sets libcurl CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to 1 instead of the strict value 2L. Under adversary-in-the-middle and TLS interception conditions, this non-strict setting may weaken TLS peer identity validation and increase the risk of accepting a certificate for an unintended host. End-to-end exploitation is non-trivial in typical environments. This issue is fixed in versions 2.9.15 and 3.0.17.
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Owasp-Modsecurity
- Product
- ModSecurity
- CVSS v3.1
- 3.7 AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Fix
- available
- Weakness
- CWE-295
- Exposure class
- Web platform
- NVD status
- Received
Why it ranks 31 (Notable)
- Product class: web platform
- Widely deployed vendor product (Owasp-Modsecurity)
- Fix available
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0) (nvd.nist.gov)
- CVE-2026-61813 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
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