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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-25043

ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.4 mishandles key-value pair parsing, as demonstrated by a "string index out of range" error and worker-process crash for a "Cookie: =abc" header.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:25 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-25043

core-osv · Original source

Published 6 May 2021, 17:15 UTC

ModSecurity 3.x before 3.0.4 mishandles key-value pair parsing, as demonstrated by a "string index out of range" error and worker-process crash for a "Cookie: =abc" header.

osv:CVE-2019-25043
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-25043",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:25.692992565Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/issues/2566"
      ],
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  "document_id": 441212,
  "published_at": "2021-05-06T17:15:07.87+00:00"
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