mod-qos — security advisory
A flaw was found in mod_qos. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending a specially crafted JSON request when JSON body filtering is enabled. Due to improper string termination during the processing of percent-encoded input, the module reads past allocated memory boundaries, which can cause an Apache worker process to crash.
- Products
- mod-qos
- Affected versions
- 11.76-3, 11.76-4, 11.76-5, 11.76-6, 11.77-1, 11.78-1, 11.79-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-114457
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 17:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in mod_qos. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending a specially crafted JSON request when JSON body filtering is enabled. Due to improper string termination during the processing of percent-encoded input, the module reads past allocated memory boundaries, which can cause an Apache worker process to crash.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-114457
mod-qos
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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