CVE-2019-19886 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-19886?

CVE-2019-19886 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 21 Jan 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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: CWE-404

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19886?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Owasp Modsecurity.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19886?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-19886 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19886 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19886, GHSA-p5f3-2x3f-r9c7.