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uknoodler_23999
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Jan 06, 2017

How 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 Ad...
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    uknoodler_23999
    Jan 10, 2017

    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_23999's avatar
uknoodler_23999
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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
  }
}
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uknoodler_23999
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Feb 23, 2017

no problem, thanks for putting in the feature request.