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On Oct 21, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote:
> I find myself struggling with how to handle directory traversal false 
> positives.  The following happily triggers rule 31104 and active response 
> blocks the IP.
> 
> 204.41.5.50 - - [21/Oct/2010:08:43:53 -0400] "GET /../index.html HTTP/1.1" 
> 400 303 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)"
> 
> The problem is that, unfortunately, this is actually legit..  While I wish I 
> could control poor web coding, I cannot..  *sigh*
> 
> I can put an ignore in, but that would hamper detecting an actual traversal 
> attack.  I can think of a few ways to alter it so it detects two or more 
> directories being traversed, but I can think of a few ways to defeat that 
> too..  So, how do I handle this?
> 
> Thanks,


One more time.. Anyone have any thoughts on this?  I'm not sure where to head 
with this one...  Anyone else having this problem?

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Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
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"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."
- - Niven's Inverse of Clarke's Third Law



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