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CVE-2023-40586 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/commit/a5239ba3ce839e14d9b4f9486e1b4a403dcade8c	CVE	Patch
https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/security/advisories/GHSA-c2pj-v37r-2p6h	CVE	MitigationVendor Advisory
https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/commit/a5239ba3ce839e14d9b4f9486e1b4a403dcade8c	[email protected]	Patch
https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/security/advisories/GHSA-c2pj-v37r-2p6h	[email protected]	MitigationVendor Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo	Insufficient Information to Classify Weakness	[email protected]
CWE-400	Uncontrolled Resource Consumption	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
coraza coraza	3.0.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:coraza:coraza:3.0.0:::::go:: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 1, 2023	Initial Analysis	[email protected]