OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. From 3.0.0 until 3.8.0, ProcessResponse in internal/bodyprocessors/json.go passes the ignoreJSONRecursionLimit value of -1 to readJSON, while the recursive guard only stops at zero. A network attacker who can cause an application protected by Coraza to return deeply nested JSON can make response-body processing perform quadratic work, consuming one CPU core for seconds per response within the default ResponseBodyLimit. Request JSON processing is not affected by this specific path because it uses the configured request recursion limit, and exploitation requires response-body inspection to be enabled. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.0.
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History
09 Oct 2026, 18:17
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Information
Published : 2026-10-09 18:17
Updated : 2026-10-16 17:16
NVD link : CVE-2026-107833
Mitre link : CVE-2026-107833
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-107833
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Products Affected
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CWE
CWE-674
Uncontrolled Recursion
