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Atomicorp WAF Rule 339207

Rule Summary

  • Rule ID: 339207
  • Status: Active
  • Alert message: Atomicorp.com WAF Rules - Virtual Just In Time Patch: Struts CVE-2020-17530 RCE attack blocked
  • Observed CWEs: None documented
  • Revision: 1
  • Rule severity: Critical (2)
  • Phase: 2 (request body)
  • Request surfaces: Request URI
  • Rule action: deny
  • HTTP status: 403
  • Logging: log, auditlog

Description

This rule detects behavior identified by its current alert as “Virtual Just In Time Patch: Struts CVE-2020-17530 RCE attack blocked” in the request URI. It evaluates during the request body phase and denies matching traffic with HTTP status 403.

CVEs Referenced by This Rule

The current ModSecurity rule metadata explicitly names the following CVEs. These references explain the rule author’s association; they do not claim that the rule is limited to these vulnerabilities or that this is an exhaustive coverage list.

CVE-2020-17530

Forced OGNL evaluation, when evaluated on raw user input in tag attributes, may lead to remote code execution. Affected software : Apache Struts 2.0.0 - Struts 2.5.25.

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.