Projects/OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Project/Releases/ModSecurity 2.1.2

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ModSecurity 2.2.0 - 05/26/2011 - (download)
Release Description: Improvements: - Changed Licensing from GPLv2 to Apache Software License v2 (ASLv2) http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt - Created new INSTALL file outlining quick config setup - Added a new rule regression testing framework to the /util directory - Added new activated_rules directory which will allow users to place symlinks pointing to files they want to run. This allows for easier Apache Include wild-carding - Adding in new RULE_MATURITY and RULE_ACCURACY tags - Adding in a check for X-Forwarded-For source IP when creating IP collection - Added new Application Defect checks (55 app defect file) from Watcher tool (Check Charset) http://websecuritytool.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Checks#charset - Added new AppSensor rules to experimental_dir https://www.owasp.org/index.php/AppSensor_DetectionPoints - Added new Generic Malicious JS checks in outbound content - Added experimental IP Forensic rules to gather Client hostname/whois info http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2010/11/detecting-malice-with-modsecurity-ip-forensics.html - Added support for Mozilla's Content Security Policy (CSP) to the experimental_rules http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2011/04/modsecurity-advanced-topic-of-the-week-integrating-content-security-policy-csp.html - Global collection in the 10 file now uses the Host Request Header as the collection key. This allows for per-site global collections. - Added new SpiderLabs Research (SLR) rules directory (slr_rules) for known vulnerabilties. This includes both converted web rules from Emerging Threats (ET) and from SLR Team. - Added new SLR rule packs for known application vulns for WordPress, Joomla and phpBB - Added experimental rules for detecting Open Proxy Abuse http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2011/03/detecting-malice-with-modsecurity-open-proxy-abuse.html - Added experimental Passive Vulnerability Scanning ruleset using OSVDB and Lua API http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2011/02/modsecurity-advanced-topic-of-the-week-passive-vulnerability-scanning-part-1-osvdb-checks.html - Added additional URI Request Validation rule to the 20 protocol violations file (Rule ID - 981227) - Added new SQLi detection rules (959070, 959071 and 959072) - Added "Toata dragostea mea pentru diavola" to the malicious User-Agent data https://www.modsecurity.org/tracker/browse/CORERULES-64 Bug Fixes: - Assigned IDs to all active SecRules/SecActions - Removed rule inversion (!) from rule ID 960902 - Fixed false negative issue in Response Splitting Rule - Fixed false negative issue with @validateByteRange check - Updated the TARGETS lising for rule ID 950908 - Updated TX data for REQBODY processing - Changed the pass action to block in the RFI rules in the 40 generic file - Updated RFI regex to catch IP address usage in hostname https://www.modsecurity.org/tracker/browse/CORERULES-68 - Changed REQUEST_URI_RAW variable to REQUEST_LINE in SLR rules to allow matches on request methods. - Updated the RFI rules in the 40 generic attacks conf file to remove explicit logging actions. They will now inherit the settings from the SecDefaultAction
Release License: Apache Software License v2 (ASLv2)
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Release Leader(s): Ryan Barnett @
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