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Atomicorp WAF Rule 330105

Rule Summary

  • Rule ID: 330105
  • Status: Active
  • Alert message: Atomicorp.com WAF Rules: Broken Bot Generic User Agent String Detected
  • Observed CWEs: None documented
  • Revision: 2
  • Rule severity: Critical (2)
  • Phase: 2 (request body)
  • Request surfaces: Request headers
  • Rule action: deny
  • HTTP status: 403
  • Logging: log, auditlog

Description

This rule is triggered if a client sends a known bot string. Currently that includes examples such as this:

User-Agent: $botname/$botversion

False Positives

None. There is no legitimate user agent that would send this User-Agent header.

If you believe this is a false positive, please report this to our security team to determine if this is a legitimate case, or if its clever attack on your system. Instructions to report false positives are detailed on the Reporting False Positives wiki page.

This is a selected list of documented research observations, not an exhaustive coverage matrix. Absence of a CVE does not imply absence of protection.

No selected related public CVE research notes are currently published.

Documentation Source

  • Original wiki page: WAF 330105
  • Source revision: 3778
  • Source revision date: 2013-07-31