Protected: CVE-2019-19886 – HIGH – DoS against libModSecurity 3
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CRS Project News January 2020
It’s been a while since the last CRS project news. It’s not because there was nothing to report. It’s more like too much going on and no time to sit back and write it all down. Here are the most important things that happened since the last edition: ModSecurity 3.0.4 has been released for NGINX. …
Running a few dozens of new magic XSS payloads against CRS 3.2
Earlier today, Gareth Heyes presented a very interesting talk with dozens of new XSS payloads at the OWASP GlobalAppSec conference in Amsterdam. The CRS developers in the audience immediately started to try out the payloads, but Gareth was so quick they lost track… But being the helpful person he is, he published the slides during …
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CRS Project News August 2019
Life is interfering and the rhythm of the CRS news is not what I would like it to be. Three months since the last edition. But the advantage is of course, that there are more news to talk about once I get to write it all up. What has happened in recent weeks The OWASP …
Announcement: OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Version 3.1.1
The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set team is pleased to announce the CRS release v3.1.1. This is a minor release fixing a Regular Expression Denial of Service weakness (CVE-2019-11387) as well as some minor bugs and false positives. The CVE is only affecting users of the libModSecurity 3 release line and only under special circumstances. …
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CRS Project News May 2019
We are back with the CRS project news. There was not too much to talk about in recent weeks, but now there is real content. So here we go. What has happened in recent weeks Security researcher Somdev Sangwan has looked into Regular Expression Denial of Service attacks. It is a more or less well …
Regular Expression DoS weaknesses in CRS
Somdev Sangwan has discovered several Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) weaknesses in the rules provided by the CRS project. They are listed under the following CVEs: CVE-2019–11387 CVE-2019–11388 CVE-2019–11389 CVE-2019–11390 CVE-2019–11391 The fact that CRS is affected by ReDoS is not particularly surprising and truth be told, we knew that was the case. We …
CRS Project News February 2019
We are back with the CRS project news. The news are running very, very late in the month as I’ve been held up with other projects. What has happened in recent weeks Miyuru Sankalpa has started to publish a transformed GeoIP database in the legacy format readable by ModSecurity 2.x under a creative commons. This …
CRS Project News January 2019
We are back with the CRS project news. We’re attending the Cloudfest Hackathon in March in Germany and we have plans for another CRS Community Summit at the new OWASP AppSec Global conference in Tel Aviv at the end of May (formerly OWASP AppSecEU). What has happened in recent weeks We have reached 1500 stars …
CRS Project News December 2018
I hope everybody has a few calm days to finish the year. CRS is finishing the year enjoying the 3.1 release and an adjustment to the PHP rules that closes a nasty hole in the detection. What has happened in recent weeks CRS 3.1 has been released bringing new rules to detect Java injections and …