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Atomicorp WAF Rule 390597

Rule Summary

  • Rule ID: 390597
  • Status: Active
  • Alert message: Atomicorp.com WAF Rules: Attack Blocked - Data Leakage - attempt to access backup system/application config file (disable this rule only if you want to allow anyone access to these backup files)
  • Observed CWEs: None documented
  • Revision: 2
  • Rule severity: Critical (2)
  • Phase: 2 (request body)
  • Request surfaces: Request filename
  • Rule action: deny
  • HTTP status: 403
  • Logging: log, auditlog

Description

This rule detects attempts to access backup copies of configuration files. For example, config.backup, config.old, config.save.

False Positives

None.

It is not recommended that you disable this rule if you believe you have a false positive. 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. If it is a false positive, we will fix the issue in the rules and get a release out to you promptly.

Tuning Guidance

If you know that this behavior is acceptable for your site, please see the Tuning the Atomicorp WAF Rules page for basic information.

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 390597
  • Source revision: 5960
  • Source revision date: 2018-09-24