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Running the CRS in Anomaly Scoring Mode (default mode), the anomaly score evaluation happens at the end of phase 2 (request body) and phase 4 (response body). Enabling early blocking, the evaluation will happen also at the end of phase 1 (request header) and phase 3 (response headers).
I think that this feature is really handy for proxy-wasm in order to mitigate malicious payloads sent upstream: the earlier we raise an interruption, the better (See also #128).
As a matter of example: CRS rule
913100
is triggered at phase 1 and looks for malicious User-Agents.Request:
curl -I --user-agent "Grabber/0.1 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7)" -H "Host: localhost" -H "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5" localhost:8080
Before (early blocking disabled):
The request is just blocked at
http_response_headers
phase, at that time the request already reached upstream.After (early blocking disabled):
The request is blocked at http_request_headers phase, right after the detection. It happens before sending anything upstream.