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October 10, 2024
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Since version 7.60 flood of IPS HTTP.Suspicious.Headers.With.Special.Characters

  • October 10, 2024
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Hello all,

 

Since yesterday I got a flood of our IPS about the following:

 

date=2024-10-10 time=09:55:22 devid="FG100XXXXXXXXXXXX" devname="100f_serverroom" eventtime=1728546922552439440 tz="+0200" logid="0419016384" type="utm" subtype="ips" eventtype="signature" level="alert" vd="root" severity="low" srcip=xxx.xx.xx.xx srccountry="Reserved" dstip=157.240.247.61 dstcountry="Netherlands" srcintf="VLAN72" srcintfrole="lan" dstintf="wan1" dstintfrole="wan" sessionid=1996577 action="dropped" proto=6 service="HTTP" policyid=6 poluuid="016585d8-cf8c-51ec-1bc2-98b96e341900" policytype="policy" attack="HTTP.Suspicious.Headers.With.Special.Characters" srcport=49694 dstport=5222 direction="outgoing" attackid=48934 profile="high_security" ref="http://www.fortinet.com/ids/VID48934" incidentserialno=168450119 msg="http_decoder: HTTP.Suspicious.Headers.With.Special.Characters" crscore=5 craction=32768 crlevel="low"

 

The destination is a meta-whatsapp service. This seems to happen with every message or interaction in WhatsApp that is made by a device.
It is interesting to note that this only started since I updated the version to 7.60 Build3401.
We have a Fortigate 100F

In order to prevent flooding, I wanted to deactivate logging specifically for the signature “HTTP.Suspicious.Headers.With.Special.Characters”, but unfortunately this does not work.

 

  edit 2                 set rule 48934                 set log disable                 set action pass             next         end     next  end 

 

Thanks in advance

Best answer by pminarik

Just a guess: The snippet shows "edit 2", implying that it may not be the only entry in that table. If there are more entries, make sure this one is moved to the top of the list/table, as the entries are actioned in top->down order.

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pminarik
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pminarikAnswer
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October 10, 2024

Just a guess: The snippet shows "edit 2", implying that it may not be the only entry in that table. If there are more entries, make sure this one is moved to the top of the list/table, as the entries are actioned in top->down order.

fabs
fabsAuthor
Visitor III
October 10, 2024

Thanks, this was the issue.

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