Event Monitor Cyber
EM-20261105-0DZC VulnerabilityHigh severity

ModSecurity Vulnerability (CVE-2026-73856)

CVE-2026-73856

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Status
Developing

Since : signals keep joining.

First Signal
Nov 05 15:50 UTCC41 Red Hat Security Data
Page Born
Nov 05 16:17 UTCsecond source joined
Last Signal
Nov 05 16:17 UTC22 hours before snapshot
Sources
21 official · 1 research, news or crowd
Open For
20 hoursso far

Life Of This Page

  1. 1
    Born
    A second, independent source names it.
  2. 2
    Developing · Now
    New signals join; severity can move.
  3. 3
    Confirmed
    Not yet
    CISA KEV lists it, or exploitation in the wild is reported.
  4. 4
    Resolved
    Not yet
    Past the fix deadline and 14 days with no new signal.
  5. 5
    Archived
    Not yet
    30 days after resolved. Read only; the link keeps working. Reopens if it comes back.

The ID never changes, and earlier addresses keep working. A correction is logged, never overwritten. If two pages turn out to be one incident, the later one points to the earlier.

Vulnerability Lifecycle

  1. Disclosed: reached
    Nov 05 16:17 UTC
    C6 NVD published
  2. Scored: reached
    Nov 05 16:17 UTC
    CVSS 8.6
  3. Exploited: not yet
    Not yet
    No exploitation reported
  4. Advisories: not yet
    Not yet
    None yet
  5. Vendor Response: reached
    Nov 05 15:50 UTC
    C41 published
  6. Resolved: not yet
    Not yet
    After 14 quiet days

Timeline

12:0018:00Nov 6BornC41 Red Hat Security DataC6 NVD CVE API 2.0

Point at a mark to read it. Squares are signals, colored by severity; every one is also listed under Signals.

Signals

  1. CVE-2026-73856 (CVSS 8.6) (opens source in a new tab) ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. From 3.0.0 until 3.0.17, src/transaction.cc compares a response Content-Type value against… High severityDatabaseC6 NVD CVE API 2.0
  2. Red Hat: CVE-2026-73856 (important) (opens source in a new tab) modsecurity: modsecurity: Information disclosure via case-sensitive Content-Type matching High severityVendorC41 Red Hat Security Data