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gotroot mod_security rules
Are the gotroot mod_security rules any good?
I've heard that you will get a lot of false positives and before I try and use them on a live box just wanted to know if anyone else has experience with ...
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Syntax for excluding certain file extensions from Modsecurity Rule?
I'm trying to exclude CSS and JS files from a certain ModSecurity rule and have not met with success with the following entered in my crs_69_customrules.conf:
<FilesMatch "\.(css|js)$">
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Mod_proxy working with Mod_security
I have a weird problem, i have multiple proxy-passes set on one vhost, and mod_sec only seems to care for the very last proxy-rule. is that a desired or configurable behavior?
Thanks!
Alessandro
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how do i exclusivly log requests of phpscripts with mod-security?
how do i only log (audit) requests (get and post parameters) to php scripts with modsecurity?
i dont want the static content to fill up my logs
Right now i m having everything logged.
i tried ...
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Configuring mod_security on Ubuntu 10.04
After spending pretty much a non-stop 24 hours trying and failing to setup mod_security in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - I've finally decided that I'm going to need some help (and so asked here).
I've tried ...
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How to use RegEx for mod_security
I have a directory/site set-up like this on my Apache/2.2.19 (Win32) Server using mod_security + core ruleset/2.2.1
/website1/login.php
/website2/login.php
/website3/login.php
/websiteN/login.php
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Apache2 mod_security simple default deny rules for specific directory
How to configure the simplest useful default-deny rule set for mod_security?
I want to configure mod_security to allow only very specific queries to single directory:
In short: I use Apache as a ...
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sources.list entry for mod_security testing release?
I have a debian "squeeze" installation, but the mod_security delivered with this release is quite old. So I'm thinking of adding an additional line to my sources.list to get the "wheezy" version ...
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mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of FQDN despite setting etc/hosts and Apache ServerName
I'm trying to get mod_security and hit the very common hostname error of
[alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "computername.domain.com"
This ...
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I want fail2ban to block what modsecurity has blocked 3 times, not what appears in the audit log 3 times
I'm trying to get fail2ban to block IPs that mod_security blocks three times. However, fail2ban is instead blocking anything which simply shows up in the mod_security log three times.
This is all ...
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HAProxy health check is logged as TCP_MISS/000 in Squid
We have a HAProxy front-end, load balancing a layer of Squid servers, which handles data from an Apache ModSecurity layer, and which ultimately serves up data from IIS cluster. Each Squid server is ...
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Looking for a good web penetration testing client
I'm implementing mod_security on an apache server. In order to test the effectiveness of the protection, I am looking for a client that can generate a set of predefined malicious HTTP requests. I will ...
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what is the impact of increasing the SecResponseBodyLimit from default value (512k) to (5M)?
I installed the mod_security version 2.5.13 with apache2 and I'm facing problem with SecResponseBodyLimit:
( ModSecurity: Output filter: Response body too large (over limit of 524288, total not ...
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How do I enable mod_security in Ubuntu 10.04?
A quick run through of what I've done:
apt-get install libapache-mod-security
a2enmod mod-security
create /etc/apache2/mod_security_rules/ with base_rules and optional_rules from the latest core ...
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mod_security never tells what the problem is
Normally I would just pester my provider to disable the rule. And while he certainly deserves pestering, I've done that way too often already for the low service price.
(Like always this is about a ...
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Where does Ubuntu 10.04 store the configuration file of mod-security?
I've installed libapache-mod-security on Ubuntu 10.04. The only configuration file I've been able to find is this one:
cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache-mod-security.conffiles
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mod_security IP collection key not being set correctly
I'm using an IP collection in a load balanced setup, I therefor want mod_security to act on the x-forwarded for header instead of the REMOTE_ADDR. Here is my rule:
SecAction ...
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Why doesn't my mod_security catch / log anything?
I installed mod_security on my Ubuntu GNU/Linux server but when I send some simple requests to the web server that should match even the simplest rules, I fail to see any alerts or any log files that ...
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What is this mod_security rule trying to prevent?
Today my IP was blocked by my server. I was told it was because of a mod_security rule that got triggered. I'm told that the regex that got triggered was
^((?:(?:POS|GE)T|OPTIONS|HEAD))
I don't ...
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What web application firewall do you use? What should I use?
What web application firewall do you use? I'm primarily interested in something I can deploy on the perimeter that can protect multiple Apache and IIS servers, but I'd like to hear all answers. Tell ...
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why use apache's LoadFile?
Installing mod_security, the instructions direct us to add:
LoadFile /usr/lib/libxml2.so
LoadFile /usr/lib/liblua5.1.so
to httpd.conf.
I'm wondering why they might prefer LoadFile to linking with ...
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Alternatives to ModSecurity for Postdata-filtering
I've found using ModSecurity cumbersome for logging/denying regex matches in postdata but I'm having trouble finding alternatives. I looked into various proxy solutions, but I can't seem to find any ...
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mod_security on an OWA front end
When using mod_security (installed from EPEL) with apache 2 on a centos box, sometimes users are unable to send messages - im having trouble tracing the rule back, the only place i get to is 'inbound ...
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Web Application Firewall: alternatives to mod_security
mod_security seems to be no longer on Debian repositories. The installation seems quite complicated. The only one I could find is Zorp, which seems even more complicated.
Hence I'd like to ask for up ...
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modsecurity inbound_anomaly_score
I get this error from web server - is this known issue. There is plenty of questions on google -- but not clear solution.
[error] [client ] ModSecurity: Warning. Operator LT matched 20 at ...
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Apache/mod_security/mod_proxy doesn't close a long-lived connection on FIN
We are using Comet that is routed via a proxy running Apache with mod_proxy and mod_security. The connections are long-lived, and have a client-side timeout.
When the connection times out, the client ...
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Frequent Server Crash due to more number of httpd processes
We are currently facing frequent server crash due to more number of httpd processes. Earlier we had frequent SYN flooding attacks. We have already enabled SYN cookies and installed both mod_security, ...
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How do I remove the ServerSignature added by mod_fcgid?
I'm running Mod_Security and I'm using the SecServerSignature to customize the Server header that Apache returns. This part works fine, however I'm also running mod_fcgid which appends ...
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Do I really need mod_security?
I'm doing a clean install of my server and I'm looking for some advice on whether or not I actually need the Apache mod_security module.
I consider myself to be a bit security paranoid when it comes ...
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Simple, current how-to install mod-security on cPanel server?
Does anyone have or know of a simple, up to date how to for installing mod-security on cPanel and configuring it after install?
Every how to on the web I've found is at least two years old and is ...
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How to secure Cpanel/WHM from malacious uploads
Recently my site's index.php file was replaced with some malicious javascript code.
I really don't know how it was added to the page.
Today when I tried to download the file via FTP, my local ...
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What is the difference between an Audit Log and a regular Log (In the context of mod_security)?
I am using mod_security:
http://www.modsecurity.org/documentation/modsecurity-apache/2.5.12/modsecurity2-apache-reference.pdf
What is the difference between and audit log (audit trail) and a normal ...
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Disable mod_security on Dreamhost, for a single cgi script
I've searched around a lot, and tried various tweaks to .htaccess files to try to turn off mod_security for a particular cgi script (uber uploader) but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
The most ...
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How to disable mod_security2 rule (false positive) for one domain on centos 5
Hi I have mod_security enabled on a centos5 server and one of the rules is keeping a user from posting some text on a form. The text is legitimate but it has the words 'create' and an html ...
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How can I have APF block script kiddies that mod_security detects?
In one of the vhosts' error_log I found thousands of lines like these, all from the same IP:
[Mon Apr 19 08:15:59 2010] [error] [client 61.147.67.206] mod_security: Access denied with code 403. ...
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Good free guide for mod_security?
I have looked at the official sites documentation, and it is a little tough to find starting points.
Is there a free comprehensive guide that is easy to understand for someone that has never dealt ...
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Necesity of ModSecurity if Apache is behind Nginx
I have my Apache installed behind Nginx. So every request that comes in is first handeled by Nginx. If there is dynamic content needed the request is send to Apache which listens on port 8080.
Pretty ...
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How do I find out if mod_security is installed on my apache server?
How can I find out if mod_security is installed on my apache server? I would also like to learn its version.
I'm having some upload issues and I tried to disable mod_security using .htaccess. But ...
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mod_security and apt-get
hi can anyone help me with mod_security configuration...
I have installed mod_security on ubuntu 9.04 lamp server,... but now I want to install anything and type apt-get install program, it keeps ...
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Just added mod_security… want to whitelist a series of sub directories
I am running a host and just updated mod_security. It "broke" a CMS in multiple sites. I want to white list all sub-directories named CMS. How do I specify a rule to do that?
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How to detect brute force in mod-security
I checked the core rules set in the mod-security but it's didn't contain the rules related to Brute-Force Attack!!! Did anyone know how to write the rules or the existing rules for this kind of ...
