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uknoodler_23999
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AltostratusHow could I exclude Vulnerability scanners from Session Tracking?
I have enabled session tracking on an application and it has quickly blocked my vulnerability scanner. Of course this is "scan interference" and makes the results invalid.
The options on the IP Address Exceptions page allow me to "Never Block" the IP , but then I get false results and ASM is not providing any protection.
Because I've seen that when blocked by Session Tracking the other violations were still recorded in the logs I thought this may work as an iRule
when ASM_REQUEST_DONE {
if { ([ASM::violation count] equals 1) && ([ASM::violation names] eq "VIOL_SESSION_AWARENESS") && ([IP::addr [IP::client_addr] equals n.n.n.n]) } {
ASM::unblock
}
}
But it didn't, the connections were still blocked when the session tracking count was reached.
Can anyone suggest something to try next?
Is it bad form to answer my own question?
Anyhow, using logging I discovered that the violation name wasn't matching correctly. Here is a rule that I've now deployed and tested.
when ASM_REQUEST_DONE { if {([ASM::violation names] contains "SESSION_AWARENESS" && [ASM::violation count] < 2 && [IP::addr [IP::client_addr] equals n.n.n.n/m])} { ASM::unblock } }
uknoodler_23999Is it bad form to answer my own question?
Anyhow, using logging I discovered that the violation name wasn't matching correctly. Here is a rule that I've now deployed and tested.
when ASM_REQUEST_DONE { if {([ASM::violation names] contains "SESSION_AWARENESS" && [ASM::violation count] < 2 && [IP::addr [IP::client_addr] equals n.n.n.n/m])} { ASM::unblock } }- cdjac0bsen
Nimbostratus
You're a genius, thanks so much. This is exactly the same issue we are having. If you don't mind, I'm going to submit this as a feature enhancement request to add this option to the IP address exception configuration. Seems like a no-brainer to me, I'm surprised it wasn't added already. You don't want legitimate vuln scanners to get blocked by session tracking--makes the results invalid.
- uknoodler_23999
no problem, thanks for putting in the feature request.
- cdjac0bsen
You're welcome. What would be the best syntax to add multiple IP addresses/subnets? We have about 15 we need to exclude. And I'm not keen on reading in a list of IP's from a separate file.