# CVE-2026-107835: OWASP Coraza WAF: Cookie Parser Confusion

- Also known as: GO-2026-6694, GHSA-G4QM-M288-5CP9
- Severity: CVSS 4.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.8.1
- Published: 2026-10-09 · Updated: 2026-10-09

## Affected

- corazawaf coraza: fixed in 3.8.1
- github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3 (Go): fixed in 3.8.1
- github.com/corazawaf/coraza (Go): all versions
- github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v2 (Go): all versions

## Description

OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. Prior to 3.8.1, internal/cookies.ParseCookies in internal/cookies/cookies.go handles boundary ASCII control characters and control-only or empty cookie names differently from several backend cookie parsers. An unauthenticated attacker can craft a Cookie header so Coraza indexes or drops a cookie under a different name or value from the backend application, causing rules targeting REQUEST_COOKIES or REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES to miss application-visible attacker data. Exploitation depends on the backend parser and affected rule scope, and interior control characters with inconsistent backend behavior are outside this advisory's remediation. This issue is fixed in version 3.8.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on corazawaf coraza, github.com/corazawaf/coraza/v3, github.com/corazawaf/coraza or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (3.8.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/security/advisories/GHSA-g4qm-m288-5cp9
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/commit/0b940e197ad9983fb3aa36e84f1f81ff985461af
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/commit/9f8521398d1ff023b958fad0b944cac265763866
- https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza/releases/tag/v3.8.1

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