Re: [mod-security-users] Problem with Regex and SecFilterSelective

[Ivan R. <iv...@we...>]

Bianca Brick wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> i protect a webapplication with the latest 1.8 version of mod_security
> (exact version info is currently not at hand). Running on an Apache2.
> Upgrating to 1.9 is currently not possible.
> 
> The following rule:
> 
>          SecFilterSelective ARG_text !(.{0,250}$) 
> 
> should match, if someone enters a text longer 250 characters. I want no
> limitation of the character set, because it is a free text field.
> 
> However, if "&text" contains a %0D%0A, the signature matches, even if the
> content is smaller 250 chars.
> 
> The logmessage is:
> "mod_security-message: Access denied with code 200. Pattern match
> "!(^.{0,250}$)" at CUSTOM"
> 
> The request is a "POST" request. "SecFilterForceByteRange 1 255" is set.
> 
> Is this a known bug, or result to a bad configuration?
> Is someone able to reproduce this?

  I seem to remember trying to write a rule that uses {n,m} last
  week and it didn't work as it was supposed to. So it may very
  well be a bug of some kind. However, it is not likely to be a
  bug in ModSecurity. ModSecurity uses the underlying regex library
  that comes with Apache.

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Ivan Ristic
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