CVE-2021-42717

CVE-2021-42717 affects ModSecurity 3.x up to 3.0.5 (and 2.x up to 2.9.4). The flaw: excessive nesting of JSON objects causes severe resource exhaustion (DoS), with small-ish requests (e.g., ~300 KB) able to tie up workers and consume CPU. Mitigations documented across multiple sources include upg...