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Brian
Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 209
Location: Puyallup, WA USA
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 Posted: Wed 26 Oct '05 20:19 Post subject: Setting Log Level for mod_security |
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It seems that since I have upgraded to mod_security 1.9RC that any time a chained rule is matched, regardless of the rule being violated or not, it gets logged.
For example, in my mod_security settings for a PHPBB forum I have a rule:
| Code: | SecFilterSelective SCRIPT_FILENAME "viewtopic\.php$" chain
SecFilterSelective ARG_highlight "chr\("
SecFilterSelective SCRIPT_FILENAME "viewtopic\.php$" chain
SecFilterSelective ARG_highlight "%27" |
Perhaps I don't need this code with the upgraded PHPBB but never the less here is what I am finding to be a problem. Any time a visitor views a topic, there is an entry into the security.log file, even though there was no action taken because the rule was not violated.
Here is a part of the typical entry into the security.log:
| Code: | ==4d070000==============================
Request: bb.webbywarehouse.com 70.89.131.49 - - [26/Oct/2005:08:35:15 --0700] "GET /viewtopic.php?t=876&sid=xxxxxxxxxx3778f0025d061293bc34b HTTP/1.1" 200 5943 "(null)" "http://bb.webbywarehouse.com/" Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1 "-"
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GET /viewtopic.php?t=876&sid=xxxxxxxxxx6dcf3778f0025d061293bc34b HTTP/1.1
Host: bb.webbywarehouse.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://bb.webbywarehouse.com/
Cookie: ww_login=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; WebbyForum_data=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx11%3A%22autologinidxxxxxxxxxxx3A%22be682e63f5c2b2b99710a26644129c5a%22%3Bs%3A6%3A%22useridxxxxx3A2%3B%7D; WebbyForum_sid=xxxxxxxxxxx778f0025d061293bc34b
mod_security-message: Warning (chained rule). Pattern match "viewtopic\\.php$" at SCRIPT_FILENAME
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.0
Set-Cookie: WebbyForum_t=xxxxxxx%3A876%3Bi%3A1130340915%3B%7D; path=/
Cache-Control: private, pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0
Expires: 0
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 5943
Keep-Alive: timeout=20, max=214
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
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I added the xxxxxx just because ....
Please specifically note the:
mod_security-message: Warning (chained rule). Pattern match "viewtopic\\.php$" at SCRIPT_FILENAME
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
... where there is no action taken, but that the access is logged anyway. How can I force only blocked actions due to a specific rule violation to be blocked?
Thank you.
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Steffen
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Joined: 15 Oct 2005
Posts: 3094
Location: Hilversum, NL, EU
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You should be able to add "nolog" to the rule to supress it.
For example:
SecFilterSelective SCRIPT_FILENAME "viewtopic\.php$ nolog,chain
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Brian
Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 209
Location: Puyallup, WA USA
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Hi Steffen,
Your solution has been installed, tested, and found to be true. Your solution is what I was seeking.
Thank you very much. I now need to review the docs to see just why I did not realize that myself.
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Steffen
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Joined: 15 Oct 2005
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Location: Hilversum, NL, EU
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| Posted: Thu 03 Nov '05 13:42 Post subject: |
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I got the following additional note from Ivan:
| Ivan wrote: | > You should be able to add "nolog" to the rule to supress it.
But this approach has some unexpected side-effects. If a rule
after the one with "nolog" triggers the request will not be
recorded in the audit log. Although further attempts can be
made (with "auditlog") to restore this functionality, I have
decided to simply move the above warning to level 3 (from
level 1). This works as of 1.9RC4.
I don't expect any more RC releases so maybe you should not
upgrade to 1.9RC4. 1.9 stable will be released over the weekend.
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