Thanks for the reply Christian. How do I turn anomaly scoring on? Is there
a disadvantage in turning off the headers rules?

Kenneth

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Christian Folini <
christian.fol...@netnea.com> wrote:

> Kenneth,
>
> You are running in blocking mode with anomaly scoring off.
>
> This is the hardest mode to tune and it will block immediately
> if something is amiss.
>
> I suggest you run in blocking mode with anomaly scoring on and
> a high anomaly limit (-> 1K or more).
>
> The rule which blocked your request is 958291. It is known for
> a lot of false positives and it is not one of my favorite rules.
>
> You can switch it off completely with
> SecRuleRemoveByID 958291
>
> But be assured given your config, the next rule will bite immediately.
>
> We are sorry, getting starting with the CRS is so hard. We are working
> on a new release and new documentation which will make things easier.
>
> Best,
>
> Christian
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 01:07:13PM +0800, T. Kenneth Lojo (IRRI) wrote:
> > I get this on my log:
> >
> > --5d2d5838-A--
> >
> > [17/May/2016:13:03:18 +0800] VzqmFgqA0uwAAA7nNtkAAAAW 66.220.158.117
> 29357
> > 10.144.68.249 80
> >
> > --5d2d5838-B--
> >
> > GET
> >
> /our-impact/protecting-the-environment/increasing-soil-health-and-productivity-of-rice-crops
> > HTTP/1.1
> >
> > User-Agent: facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+
> > http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
> >
> > Accept: */*
> >
> > Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
> >
> > Range: bytes=0-524287
> >
> > Host: irri.org
> >
> > Connection: close
> >
> >
> > --5d2d5838-F--
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
> >
> > Content-Length: 293
> >
> > Connection: close
> >
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> >
> > --5d2d5838-E--
> >
> >
> > --5d2d5838-H--
> >
> > Message: Access denied with code 403 (phase 2). String match "bytes=0-"
> at
> > REQUEST_HEADERS:Range. [file
> >
> "/etc/httpd/crs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/base_rules/modsecurity_crs_20_protocol_violations.conf"]
> > [line "428"] [id "958291"] [rev "2"] [msg "Range: field exists and begins
> > with 0."] [data "bytes=0-524287"] [severity "WARNING"] [ver
> > "OWASP_CRS/2.2.9"] [maturity "6"] [accuracy "8"] [tag
> > "OWASP_CRS/PROTOCOL_VIOLATION/INVALID_HREQ"]
> >
> > Action: Intercepted (phase 2)
> >
> > Stopwatch: 1463461398712034 9447 (- - -)
> >
> > Stopwatch2: 1463461398712034 9447; combined=438, p1=345, p2=53, p3=0,
> p4=0,
> > p5=38, sr=183, sw=2, l=0, gc=0
> >
> > Response-Body-Transformed: Dechunked
> >
> > Producer: ModSecurity for Apache/2.7.3 (http://www.modsecurity.org/);
> > OWASP_CRS/2.2.9. <http://2.2.0.9/>
> >
> > Server: Apache
> >
> > Engine-Mode: "ENABLED"
> >
> >
> > --5d2d5838-Z--
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 1:00 PM, T. Kenneth Lojo (IRRI) <t.l...@irri.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Can you point me to the right direction in correcting? It seems to be
> > > blocking all links that we post on Facebook other than the homepage.
> Which
> > > logs do I need to analyze? How do I circumvent?
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Christian Folini <
> > > christian.fol...@netnea.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Kenneth,
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:28:54PM +0800, T. Kenneth Lojo (IRRI)
> wrote:
> > >> > Our company has started using mod security as a web application
> firewall
> > >> > and we used the OWASP core rule set. When we apply the CRS Facebook
> > >> cannot
> > >> > scrape our site and gives a 403 forbidden message. Can you provide
> > >> > directions on how to correct this? Our website is http://irri.org
> > >>
> > >> This is typical behaviour for a new CRS install, which blocks
> > >> what seem to be legitimate requests as false positives.
> > >>
> > >> If you want to continue in blocking mode, you need to tune the system.
> > >> Which means you need to get rid of the false positives, by
> > >> writing ModSec rules telling the engine to circumvent the said
> > >> offending rules.
> > >>
> > >> Google for ModSecurity tuning and false positives.
> > >>
> > >> And good luck!
> > >>
> > >> Christian
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> First you make it, then it works, then you invite people to
> > >> make it better.
> > >> -- Eben Moglen, Free Software Foundation
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > *T. Kenneth S. Lojo*
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*T. Kenneth S. Lojo*
Specialist-Online Media Design
[image: IRRI] <http://irri.org/> +63 2 580 5600 ext. 2703/2744
+63 928 209 1191 (mobile)
t.l...@irri.org <g.lav...@irri.org>
www.irri.org
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Soundcloud] <https://soundcloud.com/irri-radio> [image: Google+]
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