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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-19886

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.0.0 through 3.0.3 allows an attacker to send crafted requests that may, when sent quickly in large volumes, lead to the server becoming slow or unresponsive (Denial of Service) because of a flaw in Transaction::addRequestHeader in transaction.cc.

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CVE-2019-19886
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1 Nov 2026, 04:23 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-19886

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Jan 2020, 22:15 UTC

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.0.0 through 3.0.3 allows an attacker to send crafted requests that may, when sent quickly in large volumes, lead to the server becoming slow or unresponsive (Denial of Service) because of a flaw in Transaction::addRequestHeader in transaction.cc.

osv:CVE-2019-19886
Complete source record
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