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Fedora 44 nginx-mod-modsecurity Critical Update for CVE-2026-42533

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Updates for Fedora 44 nginx-mod-modsecurity to address critical arbitrary code execution issue via HTTP requests.
The Fedora 44 update for nginx-mod-modsecurity, dependent on libmodsecurity, includes several rebuilds for nginx version 1.30.4 to address various security vulnerabilities.

Summary

The ModSecurity-nginx connector is the connection point between nginx and

libmodsecurity (ModSecurity v3). Said another way, this project provides a

communication channel between nginx and libmodsecurity. This connector is

required to use LibModSecurity with nginx.

The ModSecurity-nginx connector takes the form of an nginx module. The module

simply serves as a layer of communication between nginx and ModSecurity

Update Information:

nginx-mod-fancyindex: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-modsecurity: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-naxsi: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-headers-more: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-brotli: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-js-challenge: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx-mod-vts: Rebuild for 1.30.4 nginx: update to 1.30.4 fixes CVE-2026-42533, CVE-2026-60005, CVE-2026-56434

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security advisory fedora critical arbitrary code execution nginx-mod-modsecurity 2026-60fc198d3b

Change Log

* Sun Jul 19 2026 Felix Kaechele - 1.0.4-16 - Rebuild for 1.30.4 * Thu Jul 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.4-15 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jul 8 2026 Joe Orton - 1.0.4-14 - Rebuild.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2501307 - CVE-2026-42533 nginx: NGINX: Arbitrary code execution via crafted HTTP requests [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2501307

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-60fc198d3b' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: nginx-mod-modsecurity
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 1.0.4
Release: 16.fc44
URL: https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity-nginx
Summary: ModSecurity v3 nginx connector

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical arbitrary code execution nginx-mod-modsecurity 2026-60fc198d3b

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