modsecurity-crs - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: modsecurity-crs (main)
version: 3.3.8-1
maintainer: Ervin Hegedus (DMD)
uploaders: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta [DMD]
arch: all
std-ver: 4.4.1.1
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 3.3.0-1+deb11u1
o-o-sec: 3.3.4-1~deb11u1
oldstable: 3.3.4-1
old-sec: 3.3.4-1+deb12u1
old-p-u: 3.3.4-1+deb12u1
stable: 3.3.7-1
stable-sec: 3.3.7-1+deb13u1
stable-p-u: 3.3.7-1+deb13u1
testing: 3.3.8-1
unstable: 3.3.8-1

versioned links

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3.3.4-1~deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.3.4-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.3.4-1+deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.3.7-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.3.7-1+deb13u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.3.8-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

modsecurity-crs (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 4.22.0 high

A new upstream version 4.22.0 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2025-11-27 Last update: 2026-02-04 15:00

2 security issues in bullseye high

There are 2 open security issues in bullseye.

1 important issue:

CVE-2026-21876: The OWASP core rule set (CRS) is a set of generic attack detection rules for use with compatible web application firewalls. Prior to versions 4.22.0 and 3.3.8, the current rule 922110 has a bug when processing multipart requests with multiple parts. When the first rule in a chain iterates over a collection (like `MULTIPART_PART_HEADERS`), the capture variables (`TX:0`, `TX:1`) get overwritten with each iteration. Only the last captured value is available to the chained rule, which means malicious charsets in earlier parts can be missed if a later part has a legitimate charset. Versions 4.22.0 and 3.3.8 patch the issue.

1 issue postponed or untriaged:

CVE-2023-38199: (needs triaging) coreruleset (aka OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set) through 3.3.4 does not detect multiple Content-Type request headers on some platforms. This might allow attackers to bypass a WAF with a crafted payload, aka "Content-Type confusion" between the WAF and the backend application. This occurs when the web application relies on only the last Content-Type header. Other platforms may reject the additional Content-Type header or merge conflicting headers, leading to detection as a malformed header.

Created: 2026-01-09 Last update: 2026-01-25 04:00

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 1 bug, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2026-02-04 16:01

1 new commit since last upload, is it time to release? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit d7f34d37b30e7a4b551131f12d35e426368d0c6e
Author: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 19 20:57:42 2026 +0100

    debian/changelog: target unstable

Created: 2026-01-15 Last update: 2026-01-31 05:01

2 open merge requests in Salsa normal

There are 2 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2026-01-26 Last update: 2026-01-26 05:30

lintian reports 4 warnings normal

Lintian reports 4 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-01-21 Last update: 2026-01-21 16:31

1 low-priority security issue in bookworm low

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2023-38199: (needs triaging) coreruleset (aka OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set) through 3.3.4 does not detect multiple Content-Type request headers on some platforms. This might allow attackers to bypass a WAF with a crafted payload, aka "Content-Type confusion" between the WAF and the backend application. This occurs when the web application relies on only the last Content-Type header. Other platforms may reject the additional Content-Type header or merge conflicting headers, leading to detection as a malformed header.

You can find information about how to handle this issue in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2023-07-14 Last update: 2026-01-25 04:00

debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream low

Among the 1 debian patch available in version 3.3.8-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2026-01-20 11:00

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.3 instead of 4.4.1.1).

Created: 2020-01-21 Last update: 2026-01-20 07:18

news

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[2026-01-25] modsecurity-crs 3.3.8-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-01-24] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.7-1+deb13u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2026-01-24] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.4-1+deb12u1 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2026-01-21] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.7-1+deb13u1 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2026-01-21] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.4-1+deb12u1 (source) into oldstable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2026-01-19] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.8-1 (source) into unstable (Ervin Hegedus) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2025-08-08] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.4-1~deb11u1 (source) into oldstable-security (Adrian Bunk)
[2024-11-08] modsecurity-crs 3.3.7-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-11-02] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.7-1 (source) into unstable (Ervin Hegedüs) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2024-09-14] modsecurity-crs 3.3.6-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-09] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.6-1 (source) into unstable (Ervin Hegedüs) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2023-10-19] modsecurity-crs 3.3.5-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-10-14] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.5-2 (source) into unstable (Ervin Hegedüs) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2023-08-06] modsecurity-crs 3.3.5-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-07-31] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.5-1 (source) into unstable (Ervin Hegedüs) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2023-01-30] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.2.3-0+deb10u3 (source) into oldstable (Tobias Frost)
[2022-10-08] modsecurity-crs 3.3.4-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-10-03] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.4-1 (source) into unstable (Ervin Hegedüs) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2021-09-25] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.1.0-1+deb10u2 (source all) into oldstable-proposed-updates->oldstable-new, oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2021-09-09] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.0-1+deb11u1 (source all) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2021-08-29] modsecurity-crs 3.3.2-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-08-24] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.2-1 (source) into unstable (Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2020-09-22] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.0-1~bpo10+1 (source all) into buster-backports, buster-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2020-08-22] modsecurity-crs 3.3.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-08-16] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.3.0-1 (source) into unstable (Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2019-11-09] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.1.0-1+deb10u1 (source all) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2019-11-08] modsecurity-crs 3.2.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-11-03] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.2.0-1 (source) into unstable (Ervin Hegedus) (signed by: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2019-06-26] Accepted modsecurity-crs 3.1.1-1 (source all) into unstable (Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta)
[2018-12-02] modsecurity-crs 3.1.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 4
RC: 0
I&N: 3
M&W: 1
F&P: 0
patch: 1
NC: 1

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