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This is a cumulative patch set for a security release. The PR contains 6 fixes for their security advisories.

  • GHSA-cxqf-vgrr-xxrv - HTML decoder missing entities, leading to evasion
  • GHSA-2vqc-36qp-ccmw - Weak libcurl TLS hostname verification setting when fetching over HTTPS
  • GHSA-jx3r-phvx-2jmj - XML request body processor dereferences an uninitialized parser context pointer
  • GHSA-vmg8-j66p-vgvw - Response body inspection bypass via non-canonical Content-Type casing
  • GHSA-5m93-4h75-3p2w - @rxGlobal PCRE2 error handling: match-limit fail-open and invalid-pattern crash
  • GHSA-qrch-pjfr-9g47 - t:removeComments mishandles the character after a comment terminator, bypassing rules
  • GHSA-4j47-8qcr-jf59 - t:base64DecodeExt does not decode - and _, bypassing rules on URL-safe encoded payloads
  • GHSA-5pww-8rfg-9crf - RFC 2231 filename* parameter bypasses multipart filename rules

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A lot of advisories received and we tried to fix most of them, this is why it's all in one.

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A lot of advisories received and we tried to fix most of them, this is why it's all in one.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added multipart variables for duplicate part headers and extended filename charset and language.
    • Extended filename values are decoded and preferred when identifying uploaded files.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved HTML entity decoding, comment removal, URL-safe Base64 decoding, and regular-expression error handling.
    • Fixed XML request-body processing and made response-body inspection work with mixed-case content types.
    • Improved remote-rules download host verification and multipart validation.
    • Updated to ModSecurity 3.0.17.

Felipe Zipitria and others added 30 commits May 25, 2026 20:15
The named-entity table only recognized 5 entities (quot, amp, lt, gt,
nbsp). Any other named entity fell through to "copy raw", so rules using
t:htmlEntityDecode could be evaded by encoding ASCII bytes as named
entities. For example, "javascript:execute_my_code();" was not
matched by a rule checking "javascript:".

Replace the if/else cascade with a length-aware lookup table covering
all ASCII-mapping named entities listed in the advisory: the original 5
plus apos, colon, num, dollar, percnt, lpar, rpar, ast, plus, comma,
hyphen, period, sol, semi, equals, quest, commat, lbrack, bsol, rbrack,
caret, lowbar, grave, lbrace, verbar, rbrace, tilde.

The length-aware compare also closes a separate prefix-collision bug:
strncasecmp(x, "lt", 2) matched any token starting with "lt", so
"&ltest;" decoded to "<" with the trailing "est" silently dropped.
Tokens of unrecognized length now fall through to "copy raw" unchanged.

Adds unit test cases covering the advisory bypass, case-insensitive
matching, and the prefix-collision regression.
Address review feedback on PR #1: replace the hand-maintained len fields
in named_entities[] with a NAMED_ENTITY(name_lit, character) macro that
derives the length from sizeof(name_lit) - 1 at compile time. Eliminates
the bug class of mismatched length values.

Uses plain aggregate initialization (no designated initializers), since
the project mandates C++17 via AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX(17, noext, mandatory).

Also rename the unit-test fixture to drop the advisory identifier from
its filename, so it does not leak the GHSA reference once published.
…n case

Wire test/test-cases/unit/transformation-html-entity-decode.json into
test-suite.in per review feedback on PR #1 - without this the file was
never picked up by `make check`.

Add a full-pipeline regression case to test/test-cases/regression/
transformations.json reproducing the advisory scenario end to end. A
literal "&" in a query string (e.g. q=javascript&colon;execute_my_code())
is split into two ARGS by Transaction::extractArguments before
htmlEntityDecode ever runs, since argument splitting on '&' happens
before percent-decoding (src/transaction.cc). That delivery mechanism
can't demonstrate the bypass regardless of the transformation fix. The
ampersand must arrive percent-encoded (%26) to survive as literal text
inside a single ARGS value, matching how a browser would encode it when
submitting the payload as form/query data.
Co-authored-by: Ervin Hegedus <airween@gmail.com>
The JSON-body regression case was missing the closing bracket for its
"rules" array, making the file unparseable. Also de-duplicate its title
(it was copy-pasted from the query-string case) and fix a copy-pasted
Accept header typo (xhtmlxml -> xhtml+xml).
…rr-xxrv-v3

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#	test/test-cases/regression/transformations.json
Co-authored-by: Ervin Hegedus <airween@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ervin Hegedus <airween@gmail.com>
… in MP part;

* feat: introduce new error indicating variable: MULTIPART_DUPLICATE_PART_HEADER
Co-authored-by: Max Leske <250711+theseion@users.noreply.github.com>
airween and others added 23 commits September 1, 2026 12:54
Co-authored-by: Felipe Zipitría <3012076+fzipi@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Hiroaki Nakamura <h-nakamura@sakura.ad.jp>
The &shy;/&NonBreakingSpace; expected output was written as literal
Unicode characters (U+00AD, U+00A0). JSON strings are UTF-8, so that
decodes to the 2-byte sequences \xc2\xad/\xc2\xa0, but the decoder
emits a single raw byte per named entity (matching existing &nbsp;
behavior since the original htmlEntityDecode implementation). Use the
\xNN textual-escape convention already used for &nbsp; in
test/test-cases/secrules-language-tests/transformations/htmlEntityDecode.json,
which test/unit/unit_test.cc's json2bin() unescapes to a single byte.

Addresses review comment:
owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity-ghsa-cxqf-vgrr-xxrv#1 (comment)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Version 3.0.17 updates multipart filename parsing and variables, regex error handling, transformations, XML argument parsing, response-body content-type matching, and HTTPS host verification. The release notes also record additional fixes and an LMDB configuration change.

Changes

Multipart filename and header handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Multipart variable and rule-language wiring
headers/modsecurity/transaction.h, src/variables/*multipart*, src/variables/variable.h, src/parser/seclang-parser.yy, src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
Adds multipart variables for duplicate part headers, filename charset, and filename language. The parser, scanner, and variable dispatch recognize the new variables.
Extended filename parsing and file variables
src/request_body_processor/multipart.*, src/utils/decode.*, test/test-cases/regression/issue-1825.json, test/test-cases/regression/variable-FILES.json, test/test-cases/regression/variable-MULTIPART_FILENAME*.json, test/test-suite.in
Multipart parsing stores and decodes filename*, charset, and language values. It uses the extended filename when populating multipart filename and file variables. Regression cases cover decoding, precedence, keyed access, and file matching.
Duplicate-header tracking and strict errors
src/request_body_processor/multipart.*, modsecurity.conf-recommended, test/test-cases/regression/variable-MULTIPART_FILENAME_CHARSET.json, test/test-cases/regression/variable-MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR.json
Repeated part headers and filename parameters set the duplicate-header flag. The flag is exposed as a variable and contributes to multipart strict-error status.

Regex operator error handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Regex validation and evaluation
src/operators/rx.cc, src/operators/rx_global.cc, src/utils/regex.cc, test/test-cases/regression/operator-rx*.json
@rx and @rxGlobal reject invalid static patterns and check macro-expanded patterns during evaluation. Tests cover invalid and valid expanded patterns, error handling, and match-limit exhaustion.

Transformation behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Named HTML entity decoding
src/actions/transformations/html_entity_decode.cc, tools/gen-html-entities.py, test/test-cases/unit/transformation-html-entity-decode.json, test/test-cases/regression/transformations.json, test/test-suite.in
The decoder uses exact-length, case-insensitive lookup for selected named entities. A generator and tests cover entity selection and decoding results.
Comment removal and Base64 decoding
src/actions/transformations/remove_comments.cc, src/utils/base64.cc, test/test-cases/regression/transformations.json
Comment removal resumes scanning after the closing delimiter. Forgiving Base64 decoding accepts . as value 62.

XML argument parsing

Layer / File(s) Summary
XML parser context handling
src/request_body_processor/xml.cc, test/test-cases/regression/variable-XML.json
The SAX parser state receives the argument-parser context before XML argument processing. A regression case covers XML parsing with an argument limit.

Response content-type matching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Case-insensitive response MIME matching
src/transaction.cc, test/test-cases/regression/variable-RESPONSE_BODY.json
Response-body processing lowercases the response content type before checking the configured MIME types. A mixed-case content-type case is added.

Remote download host verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
TLS host verification
src/utils/https_client.cc
The libcurl download path sets host verification to 2L.

Release metadata and test reference

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release version and test reference
CHANGES, headers/modsecurity/modsecurity.h, test/test-cases/secrules-language-tests
The changelog and version macros identify release 3.0.17. The language-test subproject reference changes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Multipart
  participant MultipartPart
  participant TransactionVariables
  Multipart->>MultipartPart: Store filename*, charset, language, and offsets
  Multipart->>TransactionVariables: Publish multipart filename and metadata
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to da9fe

This security release introduces a few gaps. If configured MIME types use mixed case, response-body inspection can be skipped. Remote-rule keys can be sent without encryption over plain HTTP URLs. URL-safe Base64 that uses a period may still decode incorrectly. Resolve these before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to da9fe

A configuration casing mismatch introduced by this release can prevent response bodies from being inspected in affected deployments. The multipart changes preserve the examined error and filename-publication controls. A separate remote-download secret-exposure condition remains, but the changed TLS setting does not appear to introduce it.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Lowercasing only the response-side lookup can disable buffering and inspection when a configured MIME token uses uppercase characters.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The introduced MIME mismatch affects response-body inspection for instances using noncanonical configured tokens, not all responses or all installations. No cross-tenant or service-wide amplification is established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — With an uppercase MIME token in configuration, a response that previously matched it by exact casing can cease to be buffered and inspected after lowercasing at the lookup. Canonical lowercase configuration is counterevidence to a general bypass.
  • observed — The retained remote-download exposure remains possible when a configured key is sent to an HTTP URL. The available base and head code both permit that combination; the PR changes HTTPS hostname verification, not HTTP scheme acceptance or key attachment.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Attacker-supplied multipart part headers now feed filename* and duplicate-header rule variables. The examined lifecycle classifies accepted extended filenames as files and propagates malformed or duplicate input into error controls.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Canonicalize configured MIME tokens at the same boundary as response Content-Type lookups so policy production and enforcement use one casing contract.
  • proposed — Constrain keyed remote downloads to authenticated HTTPS destinations so the pre-existing HTTP key exposure cannot occur.
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🟠 Major · Require HTTPS before sending the key. · https_client.cc:80

src/utils/https_client.cc:80
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Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-319 — Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Require HTTPS before sending the key.

The scanner in src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll (Lines 1344–1378) passes the configured URL and key to download(). This method accepts the URL and adds m_key to the request headers. If the URL uses http://, an on-path observer can read ModSec-key in plaintext. libcurl allows built-in protocols by default, and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST applies only to TLS. (curl.se)

Reject non-HTTPS URLs before sending the request.

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Restrict the libcurl request configured at CURLOPT_URL to HTTPS before it sends
the request headers containing m_key. Ensure redirects cannot switch the request
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test/test-cases/regression/variable-XML.json (1)

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Make the rule test the argument-limit boundary.

@rx a matches the earlier pineapple argument. The test can return 403 even if XML parsing continues past SecArgumentsLimit 10. Match a specific argument at the intended boundary, and add an assertion that an argument after the limit is absent.

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Update the SecRule ARGS check in the variable-XML regression case to match a
specific argument at the SecArgumentsLimit 10 boundary instead of the earlier
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/request_body_processor/multipart.cc:
- Line 504: Update the m_filenameStarOffset calculation to subtract the raw
filename* value length rather than decoded_value.size(), so the offset
identifies the start of the percent-encoded value.

Review comments at @src/transaction.cc:
- Line 1132: Normalize configured MIME-type tokens before comparing them with
the lowercased response content type. At src/transaction.cc lines 1132-1132,
update the lookup so phase-4 inspection runs for case-insensitive matches; at
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Review comments at @src/utils/base64.cc:
- Line 119: Update the decode lookup table used by decode_forgiven_engine so the
entry for `.` maps to value 62 instead of -2. Preserve the existing mappings for
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Review comments at
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- Line 637: Update the SecRule for MULTIPART_FILENAME_CHARSET to use the @gt
operator with the numeric threshold 0 instead of the malformed implicit regex
operator, so the chained rule correctly evaluates the count.

Review comments at
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- Line 794: Update the parser-state expectations for the `-18` and `-16` cases
in the `MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR` regression fixture: change `DH` and `IP` to `0`
in both `error_log` values, leaving the other state fields unchanged.

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- Line 80: Restrict the libcurl request configured at CURLOPT_URL to HTTPS
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switch the request to a non-HTTPS protocol if redirect following is enabled.

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earlier pineapple argument, and add an assertion that an argument beyond the
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const std::set<std::string> &bi = \
m_rules->m_responseBodyTypeToBeInspected.m_value;
auto t = bi.find(m_variableResponseContentType.m_value);
auto t = bi.find(utils::string::tolower(m_variableResponseContentType.m_value));

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Security Misconfiguration

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-693

Normalize both sides of the MIME-type comparison. The parser preserves the case of SecResponseBodyMimeType tokens, but both changed lookups lowercase only the response type. If a configured token is Text/Plain, a matching response misses the case-sensitive set lookup. The body is not collected or inspected.

  • src/transaction.cc#L1132-L1132: compare against normalized configured tokens so phase-4 inspection runs.
  • src/transaction.cc#L1183-L1183: use the same normalized tokens so the response body is collected.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Map . to value 62.

Line 119 maps . (ASCII 46) to -2. decode_forgiven_engine skips negative entries, so .w== produces empty output instead of the same byte as +w==. Base64DecodeExt::transform then replaces the value with that output (src/actions/transformations/base64_decode_ext.cc, Lines 26–36). Set the . entry to 62.

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"rules": [
"SecRuleEngine On",
"SecRule &MULTIPART_FILENAME_CHARSET \"&gt 0\" \"id:1,phase:2,deny,t:none,chain\"",

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Fix the operator typo &gt 0.

"&gt 0" has no @ prefix. The parser therefore treats it as an implicit @rx with the pattern &gt 0. The count value is numeric, so this pattern never matches. The chain never fires, and the expected HTTP 200 passes regardless of charset handling. Use @gt 0, as in cases 1/5 to 3/5.

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-      "SecRule &MULTIPART_FILENAME_CHARSET \"&gt 0\" \"id:1,phase:2,deny,t:none,chain\"",
+      "SecRule &MULTIPART_FILENAME_CHARSET \"@gt 0\" \"id:1,phase:2,deny,t:none,chain\"",
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"SecRule &MULTIPART_FILENAME_CHARSET \"&gt 0\" \"id:1,phase:2,deny,t:none,chain\"",
"SecRule &MULTIPART_FILENAME_CHARSET \"@gt 0\" \"id:1,phase:2,deny,t:none,chain\"",
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"expected": {
"debug_log": "Invalid Content-Disposition header \\(-18\\): form-data; name=\"file\"; filename\\*=UTF-8''Math\\+physics%20v1\\.pdf%ZZ",
"error_log": "data \"PE 1, BQ 0, BW 0, DB 0, DA 0, DH 1, HF 0, LF 0, SM 0, IQ 0, IP 1",

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Correct the parser-state expectations for the -18 and -16 cases.

Both cases should report DH 0 and IP 0. The parser returns before it sets either flag.

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-      "error_log": "data \"PE 1, BQ 0, BW 0, DB 0, DA 0, DH 1, HF 0, LF 0, SM 0, IQ 0, IP 1",
+      "error_log": "data \"PE 1, BQ 0, BW 0, DB 0, DA 0, DH 0, HF 0, LF 0, SM 0, IQ 0, IP 0",

Apply the same change to the expectation at line 851.

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"error_log": "data \"PE 1, BQ 0, BW 0, DB 0, DA 0, DH 1, HF 0, LF 0, SM 0, IQ 0, IP 1",
"error_log": "data \"PE 1, BQ 0, BW 0, DB 0, DA 0, DH 0, HF 0, LF 0, SM 0, IQ 0, IP 0",
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@test/test-cases/regression/variable-MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR.json at line 794:
Update the parser-state expectations for the `-18` and `-16` cases in the
`MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR` regression fixture: change `DH` and `IP` to `0` in both
`error_log` values, leaving the other state fields unchanged.

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airween merged commit 1925753 into v3/master Sep 29, 2026
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