Earlier today, Gareth Heyes presented a very interesting talk with dozens of new XSS payloads at the OWASP GlobalAppSec conference in Amsterdam. The CRS developers in the audience immediately started to try out the payloads, but Gareth was so quick they lost track… But being the helpful person he is, he published the slides during …
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The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set team is proud to announce the general availability of the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Version 3.2.0. The new release is available for download at https://coreruleset.org/installation/ This release represents a very big step forward in terms of both capabilities and protections including: Improved compatibility with ModSecurity 3.x Improved CRS …
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How could the functionality of a WAF be better demonstrated than with a vulnerable web application? In this blog post I introduce Pixi, an intentionally vulnerable web application by the OWASP project DevSlop. I show its known vulnerabilities and examine how the CRS protects against these vulnerabilities. What is Pixi? Pixi is a deliberately vulnerable …
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The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set team is proud to announce the general availability of release candidate 2 for the upcoming CRS v3.2.0. The new release is available at https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/archive/v3.2.0-rc2.zip https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/archive/v3.2.0-rc2.tar.gz This release represents a very big step forward in terms of both capabilities and protections including: Improved compatibility with ModSecurity 3.x Improved CRS docker …
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As many of you have noticed, the Core Rule Set contains very complex regular expressions. See for example rule 942480: (?i:(?:\b(?:(?:s(?:elect\b.{1,100}?\b(?:(?:(?:length|count)\b.{1,100}?|.*?\bdump\b.*)\bfrom|to(?:p\b.{1,100}?\bfrom|_(?:numbe|cha)r)|(?:from\b.{1,100}?\bwher|data_typ)e|instr)|ys_context)|in(?:to\b\W*?\b(?:dump|out)file|sert\b\W*?\binto|ner\b\W*?\bjoin)|… These regular expressions are assembled from a list of simpler regular expressions for efficiency reasons. See regexp-942480.data for the source expressions which were combined to form this expression. A single optimized regular expression test …
Life is interfering and the rhythm of the CRS news is not what I would like it to be. Three months since the last edition. But the advantage is of course, that there are more news to talk about once I get to write it all up. What has happened in recent weeks The OWASP …
The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set team is pleased to announce the CRS release v3.1.1. This is a minor release fixing a Regular Expression Denial of Service weakness (CVE-2019-11387) as well as some minor bugs and false positives. The CVE is only affecting users of the libModSecurity 3 release line and only under special circumstances. …
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We are back with the CRS project news. There was not too much to talk about in recent weeks, but now there is real content. So here we go. What has happened in recent weeks Security researcher Somdev Sangwan has looked into Regular Expression Denial of Service attacks. It is a more or less well …
Somdev Sangwan has discovered several Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) weaknesses in the rules provided by the CRS project. They are listed under the following CVEs: CVE-2019–11387 CVE-2019–11388 CVE-2019–11389 CVE-2019–11390 CVE-2019–11391 The fact that CRS is affected by ReDoS is not particularly surprising and truth be told, we knew that was the case. We …
We are back with the CRS project news. We’re attending the Cloudfest Hackathon in March in Germany and we have plans for another CRS Community Summit at the new OWASP AppSec Global conference in Tel Aviv at the end of May (formerly OWASP AppSecEU). What has happened in recent weeks We have reached 1500 stars …