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 …
I hope everybody has a few calm days to finish the year. CRS is finishing the year enjoying the 3.1 release and an adjustment to the PHP rules that closes a nasty hole in the detection. What has happened in recent weeks CRS 3.1 has been released bringing new rules to detect Java injections and …
The Core Rule Set is installed in just four steps, as described in the Installation Guide. Now, it’s even easier using the CRS Docker container. The effort to start the CRS in front of an application is reduced to a few seconds and only one command. Franziska Bühler, one of the CRS developers, enhanced the …
The plan is to do this newsletter every month, but it’s already November. The reason is the pending 3.1 release, so I waited for the release to happen and then it did not and suddenly October was over. But now we have a 3.1-RC2 and a strong belief that 3.1 will come out for good …
Are you interested in hanging out with the CRS developers? Giving your input on CRS development issues? Chatting about the wonderful world of WAFs? Then this is your chance! At OWASP AppSecEU 2018, we have started the #coreruleset channel in the OWASP Slack. This has turned out to be a good place for exchanging ideas …
We skipped the monthly news in August as the 3.1-RC release had been delayed into September. But here we go again with the mostly monthly newsletter of the CRS project. The most important news is the publication of the release candidate 1 for CRS 3.1. What has happened in recent weeks CRS 3.1 RC1 has …
This article explores how to use an uninitialized Bash variable to bypass WAF regular expression based filters and pattern matching. Let’s see how it can be done on CloudFlare WAF and ModSecurity OWASP CRS3.
Chris Romeo from the AppSec Podcast did an interview with our own Christian Folini during the AppSecEU conference in July. The 25min interview has been published lately. The interview discusses the project itself, the upcoming 3.1 release, plans to expand beyond ModSecurity and CRS fits into agile development. Here is the link to the interview: …
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We are launching the monthly news anew. The idea is to look beyond the pure CRS development again and to bring you additional information that touch on our project. As the editor, I (-> Christian Folini) am planning to release this in the first half of the month. This did not work in July, though, …