Bug ID 1549429: Google-InspectionTool classified as Suspicious Browser.

Last Modified: Oct 04, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP ASM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1

Opened: Feb 20, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Google-InspectionTool classified as Suspicious Browser in the 16.1.4 version.

Impact

Valid request is getting blocked.

Conditions

Create a Bot profile and send a request with "Google-InspectionTool" from a linux client. curl http://<VS>/index.html -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.6099.216 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-InspectionTool/1.0;)' -H 'X-Forwarded-For: 66.249.79.236' -H 'Host: mpt.gob.es' -H 'AMP-Cache-Transform: google;v="1 ..2"'

Workaround

Can create a custom bot signature.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips