UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42268

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-42268
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42268.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42268
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-42268
Published
2026-05-12T22:16:00Z
Modified
2026-05-20T22:03:01.871119343Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.0 to before 3.0.15, there is an unhandled exception (std::outofrange) caused by unsigned integer underflow in libmodsecurity3 if the user (administrator) uses a rule any of @verifySSN, @verifyCPF, or @verifySVNR. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.0.15.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / modsecurity

Package

Name
modsecurity
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/modsecurity?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.0.3-1
3.0.4-1
3.0.4-1build1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmodsecurity3",
            "binary_version": "3.0.4-1build1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42268.json"

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / modsecurity

Package

Name
modsecurity
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/modsecurity?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.0.4-2
3.0.6-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmodsecurity3",
            "binary_version": "3.0.6-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42268.json"

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / modsecurity

Package

Name
modsecurity
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/modsecurity?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.0.10-1
3.0.11-1
3.0.12-1
3.0.12-1.1build1
3.0.12-1.1build2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmodsecurity3t64",
            "binary_version": "3.0.12-1.1build2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42268.json"

Ubuntu:25.10 / modsecurity

Package

Name
modsecurity
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/modsecurity?arch=source&distro=questing

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.0.13-1
3.0.14-1
3.0.14-1build1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmodsecurity3t64",
            "binary_version": "3.0.14-1build1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42268.json"

Ubuntu:26.04:LTS / modsecurity

Package

Name
modsecurity
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/modsecurity?arch=source&distro=resolute

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.0.14-1build1
3.0.14-1build2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libmodsecurity3t64",
            "binary_version": "3.0.14-1build2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42268.json"