Answer in brief
CVE-2026-107833 records a Medium severity (CVSS 5.9) vulnerability in OWASP Coraza WAF: Unbounded recursion in JSON response body processor causes CPU exhaustion. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps corazawaf/coraza (generic), github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3 (go), github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3 (go). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 5.9. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps corazawaf/coraza (generic), github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3 (go), github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3 (go). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| corazawaf/corazageneric | >=3.0.0 <3.8.0 | 3.8.0 |
| github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3go | >=3.0.0,<3.8.0 | 3.8.0 |
| github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3go | >=3.0.0 <3.8.0 | 3.8.0 |
Published upstream
Oct 9, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 9, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Oct 8, 2026
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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