Re: [mod-security-users] Use of Modsec variable in apache access log

[Christian F. <chr...@ne...>]

Hi there,

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 08:37:51AM +0530, homesh joshi wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification.
> I have already gone through excellent netnea.com tutorials. I have already
> used some of the configuration from tutorial.I do not use crs.

Thank you very much.

> My objective here is that I want to get a flag in access log line if modsec
> has taken any action on the transaction say simply it can be a field like
> modsec=1 or modsec=0. This wi help me in separating transactions which are
> allowed.(modsec=0) So then it is easy to show these transactions in the
> reporting system.

I'd do a setenv then in the rules.

... "setenv:modsec=1"

Similar to the way I set th various env variables in phase 5. You can simply
add this to every rule you have. Or you set up a more complicated scheme
and do it in the end in phase 5.

Best,

Christian

> 
> Kindly suggest.
> 
> Thanks,
> Homesh
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar, 2022, 12:04 am Christian Folini, <
> chr...@ne...> wrote:
> 
> > HelloHomesh,
> >
> > Unfortunately, this is not how this works.
> >
> > A ModSecuriy variable is not automatically an environment variable.
> > And on top, the ModSec variable "rule" is only available during the
> > execution of the very rule (and there might be many, many rules).
> >
> > I suggest you read up on my free tutorials published at netnea.com.
> > The one on logging and the ones on the Core Rule Set are proposing
> > ways to achieve something along these lines.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Christian
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 11:12:58PM +0530, homesh joshi wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Hope you all are well.
> > >
> > > I want to add the modsecurity variable e.g "rule.id"in the apache access
> > > log via the extended format.
> > > I set the following line in /etc/apache2/apache.conf
> > >
> > > LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"
> > > %{ms}T %p %{Host}i %{UNIQUE_ID}e %{rule.id}e" extended
> > >
> > > However I am not getting the rule.id value in the access log line.
> > >
> > > Kindly suggest.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Homesh
> >
> >
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