CVE-2019-19886

Trustwave ModSecurity 3.0.0 through 3.0.3 allows an attacker to send crafted requests that may, when sent quickly in large volumes, lead to the server becoming slow or unresponsive (Denial of Service) because of a flaw in Transaction::addRequestHeader in transaction.cc.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GWVUC54OPU7ICFYIXXVGQ5DOTMR4Z6ZY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JI3MNFRNUZD6RAJ5CPQZSUXQXDZ2K7IL/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M7IIUNYIEZOWHRWWRVT3FR45MLE6HGDY/
• https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/modsecurity-denial-of-service-details-cve-2019-19886/