Rules

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What’s In The Rules

| REQUEST-900-EXCLUSION-RULES-BEFORE-CRS.conf.example |  Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-900-EXCLUSION-RULES-BEFORE-CRS.conf.example | This file is used to add LOCAL exceptions for your site. Often in this file we would see rules that short-circuit inspection and allow certain transactions to skip through inspection. Example: SecRule REMOTE_ADDR "@ipMatch 192.168.1.100" "phase:1,id:'981033',t:none,nolog,pass,ctl:ruleEngine=Off"| | REQUEST-901-INITIALIZATION.conf | TODO | | REQUEST-903.9001-DRUPAL-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf REQUEST-903.9002-WORDPRESS-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf REQUEST-903.9003-NEXTCLOUD-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf REQUEST-903.9004-DOKUWIKI-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf REQUEST-903.9005-CPANEL-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf REQUEST-903.9006-XENFORO-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf | TODO |

REQUEST-901-INITIALIZATION.conf TODO

REQUEST-903.9001-DRUPAL-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf REQUEST-903.9002-WORDPRESS-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf REQUEST-903.9003-NEXTCLOUD-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf REQUEST-903.9004-DOKUWIKI-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf REQUEST-903.9005-CPANEL-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf REQUEST-903.9006-XENFORO-EXCLUSION-RULES.conf TODO

| REQUEST-905-COMMON-EXCEPTIONS | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-905-COMMON-EXCEPTIONS.conf | | Some rules are quite prone to causing false positives in well established software, such as Apache callbacks or Google Analytics tracking cookie. This file offers rules that will allow the transactions to avoid triggering these false positives.

| REQUEST-910-IP-REPUTATION | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-910-IP-REPUTATION.conf | | These rules deal with detecting traffic from IPs that have previously been involved with malicious activity, either on our local site or globally.

REQUEST-911-METHOD-ENFORCEMENT TODO

| REQUEST-912-DOS-PROTECTION | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-912-DOS-PROTECTION.conf | | The rules in this file will attempt to detect some level 7 DoS (Denial of Service) attacks against your server.

| REQUEST-913-SCANNER-DETECTION | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-913-SCANNER-DETECTION.conf | | These rules are concentrated around detecting security tools and scanners.

| REQUEST-920-PROTOCOL-ENFORCEMENT | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-20-PROTOCOL-ENFORCEMENT.conf | | The rules in this file center around detecting requests that either violate HTTP or represent a request that no modern browser would generate, for instance missing a user-agent.

| REQUEST-921-PROTOCOL-ATTACK | | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-21-PROTOCOL-ATTACK.conf | The rules in this file focus on specific attacks against the HTTP protocol itself such as HTTP Request Smuggling and Response Splitting.

| REQUEST-930-APPLICATION-ATTACK-LFI | | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-930-APPLICATION-ATTACK-LFI.conf

| These rules attempt to detect when a user is trying to include a file that would be local to the webserver that they should not have access to. Exploiting this type of attack can lead to the web application or server being compromised.

| REQUEST-931-APPLICATION-ATTACK-RFI | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-31-APPLICATION-ATTACK-RFI.conf | | These rules attempt to detect when a user is trying to include a remote resource into the web application that will be executed. Exploiting this type of attack can lead to the web application or server being compromised.

REQUEST-932-APPLICATION-ATTACK-RCE.conf REQUEST-933-APPLICATION-ATTACK-PHP.conf REQUEST-934-APPLICATION-ATTACK-GENERIC.conf

TODO

REQUEST-941-APPLICATION-ATTACK-XSS.conf TODO

| REQUEST-942-APPLICATION-ATTACK-SQLI | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-942-APPLICATION-ATTACK-SQLI.conf | | Within this configuration file we provide rules that protect against SQL injection attacks. SQLi attackers occur when an attacker passes crafted control characters to parameters to an area of the application that is expecting only data. The application will then pass the control characters to the database. This will end up changing the meaning of the expected SQL query.

| REQUEST-943-APPLICATION-ATTACK-SESSION-FIXATION | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-43-APPLICATION-ATTACK-SESSION-FIXATION.conf | | These rules focus around providing protection against Session Fixation attacks.

REQUEST-944-APPLICATION-ATTACK-JAVA TODO

| REQUEST-949-BLOCKING-EVALUATION | Configuration Path: rules/REQUEST-49-BLOCKING-EVALUATION.conf | | These rules provide the anomaly based blocking for a given request. If you are in anomaly detection mode this file must not be deleted.

| RESPONSE-954-DATA-LEAKAGES-IIS | Configuration Path: rules/RESPONSE-954-DATA-LEAKAGES-IIS.conf | | These rules provide protection against data leakages that may occur because of Microsoft IIS

| RESPONSE-952-DATA-LEAKAGES-JAVA | Configuration Path: rules/RESPONSE-952-DATA-LEAKAGES-JAVA.conf | | These rules provide protection against data leakages that may occur because of Java

| RESPONSE-953-DATA-LEAKAGES-PHP | Configuration Path: rules/RESPONSE-953-DATA-LEAKAGES-PHP.conf | | These rules provide protection against data leakages that may occur because of PHP

| RESPONSE-950-DATA-LEAKAGES | Configuration Path: rules/RESPONSE-950-DATA-LEAKAGES.conf | | These rules provide protection against data leakages that may occur genericly

| RESPONSE-951-DATA-LEAKAGES-SQL | Configuration Path: rules/RESPONSE-951-DATA-LEAKAGES-SQL.conf | | These rules provide protection against data leakages that may occur from backend SQL servers. Often these are indicative of SQL injection issues being present.

| RESPONSE-959-BLOCKING-EVALUATION | Configuration Path: rules/RESPONSE-959-BLOCKING-EVALUATION.conf | | These rules provide the anomaly based blocking for a given response. If you are in anomaly detection mode this file must not be deleted.

| RESPONSE-980-CORRELATION | Configuration Path: rules/RESPONSE-980-CORRELATION.conf | | The rules in this configuration file facilitate the gathering of data about successful and unsuccessful attacks on the server.

RESPONSE-999-EXCLUSION-RULES-AFTER-CRS.conf.example Configuration Path: rules/RESPONSE-999-EXCLUSION-RULES-AFTER-CRS.conf.example

This file is used to add LOCAL exceptions for your site. Often in this file we would see rules that short-circuit inspection and allow certain transactions to skip through inspection.