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Atomicorp WAF Rule 340620

Rule Summary

  • Rule ID: 340620
  • Status: Active
  • Alert message: Atomicorp.com WAF Rules: Remote File Injection attempt in ARGS
  • Observed CWEs: None documented
  • Revision: 1
  • Rule severity: Critical (2)
  • Phase: 2 (request body)
  • Request surfaces: Request arguments, JSON request data, SOAP request data
  • Rule action: deny
  • HTTP status: 403
  • Logging: log, auditlog

Description

Your system is using UTF8 encoding an invalid data base been recieved that claims to be using the uft-8 character set. This can be indicative of an attack that is attempting to encode itself as UTF-8 hoping to evade the web application firewall or some other system.

False Positives

There are no known False Positives for this.

If you believe this is a false positive, it is recommended that you report this to our security team can 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 340620
  • Source revision: 686
  • Source revision date: 2009-11-25