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SCA: security update for github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3 (GHSA-3c6w-j9xm-8h2h)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 473856

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2026-107833)

Solution

Update the github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3 library and its related packages to version 3.8.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3c6w-j9xm-8h2h

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 473856

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/8/2026

Updated: 10/9/2026

Risk Information

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-107833

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-107833

cwe: CWE-674