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GPC Project Details/OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Project

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OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Project

Purpose: ModSecurity is an Apache web server module that provides a web application firewall engine. The ModSecurity Rules Language engine is extrememly flexible and robust and has been referred to as the "Swiss Army Knife of web application firewalls." While this is certainly true, it doesn't do much implicitly on its own and requires rules to tell it what to do. In order to enable users to take full advantage of ModSecurity out of the box, we have developed the Core Rule Set (CRS) which provides critical protections against attacks across most every web architecture.

Unlike intrusion detection and prevention systems, which rely on signatures specific to known vulnerabilities, the CRS is based on generic rules which focus on attack payload identification in order to provide protection from zero day and unknown vulnerabilities often found in web applications, which are in most cases custom coded.

License: Apache Software License - Version 2.0

who is working on this project?
Project Leader: Ryan Barnett @

Project Maintainer: Ryan Barnett @

Project Contributor(s):

how can you learn more?
Project Pamphlet: N/A

3x slide Project Presentation: View

Mailing list: Subscribe or read the archives

Project Roadmap: To view, click here

Main links:

Project Health: Yellow button.JPG Not Reviewed (Provisional)
To be reviewed under Assessment Criteria v2.0

Key Contacts
  • Contact Ryan Barnett @ to contribute, review or sponsor this project
  • Contact the GPC to report a problem or concern about this project or to update information.
current release
ModSecurity 2.2.5 - 2012-06-14 - (download)

Release Leader: Ryan Barnett @

Release details: Main links, release roadmap and assessment

Rating: Yellow button.JPG Not Reviewed
To be reviewed under Assessment Criteria v2.0