Security Advisory

CVE-2023-40586

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. Due to the misuse of `log.Fatalf`, the application using coraza crashed after receiving crafted requests from attackers. The application will immediately crash after receiving a malicious request that triggers an error in `mime.ParseMediaType`. This issue was patched in version 3.0.1.
Published Date August 25, 2023
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory