Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-25043
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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