Rogerio,
A couple of comments -

1) Please open GitHub Issue tickets for your false positives so that we can fix 
them.

2) How is Acunetix actually testing the vuln?

Keep in mind that the ModSecurity defenses for slow DoS attacks (headers vs 
post body) is really based on a scenario where a client has too many 
connections open vs actually doing any per-thread timing. If the scanner is 
only opening a single/small # it connections to test then the 
SecConnReadStateLimit/SecConnWriteStateLimit directives won't trigger.

Ryan Barnett
Lead Security Researcher, SpiderLabs

Trustwave | SMART SECURITY ON DEMAND
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On May 6, 2014, at 5:12 PM, "Rogerio Brito" 
<rogerio.br...@intercode.com.br<mailto:rogerio.br...@intercode.com.br>> wrote:

Hello all,

I have lots of Joomla websites and I’ve just installed mod_security with 
Owasp-modsecurity-core-rule-set.  I had to disable the 
modsecurity_crs_41_xss_attacks.conf and 
modsecurity_crs_41_sql_injection_attacks.conf rules because I could not edit 
any article. Whenever I tried to save the article I would get a 403 forbidden.  
I watched the audit log file and I’ve tried to comment out rule by rule that 
fails, but as we are editing HTML  content there are so many rules to comment 
that I believe there must some way else to do it.
On another case, I’ve enabled the modsecurity_crs_11_slow_dos_protection.conf 
rules, but I’ve tested the site with http://www.acunetix.com/ and it still 
reports the site as vulnerable to “Slow HTTP Denial of Service Attack”.

Can someone please help?

Thank you
Rogerio Brito

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