Bug ID 984521: Accept-Encoding header is stripped by Bot Defense profile in case of incompatible file extension and a dot in the file name

Last Modified: Oct 04, 2024

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

Known Affected Versions:
14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1

Opened: Jan 17, 2021

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

Bot Defense profile checks if a page is not an HTML page by checking the file extension (among other ways). In case the filename contains a dot (.) - the parsing is wrong and it is not detected as incompatible. As a result, the Accept-Encoding header is removed (to allow injection in the response).

Impact

Accept-Encoding header is removed, causing the server to not send a gzipped response.

Conditions

-- Bot Defense profile is attached to s virtual server configured with any response injection (Device ID, Browser Verification, or Single Page Application). Request is sent to an incompatible file extension (one of gif,png,bmp,jpg,ico,css,mp3,mp4,mpg,avi,wmv,mov,3gp,fla,swf,js), and filename contains a dot (.).

Workaround

Add this specific URL to sys db: dosl7.parse_html_excluded_urls

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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