Last Modified: Apr 19, 2024
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP ASM
Known Affected Versions:
16.0.1.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.0, 15.1.3, 15.1.2, 14.1.4.2
Fixed In:
16.1.0, 16.0.1.2, 15.1.4, 14.1.4.3, 13.1.4.1
Opened: May 11, 2021 Severity: 2-Critical
False-positive HTTP compliance violation.
False-positive traffic blocking.
Authorization header with bearer token and/or some other authorization headers types.
Turn on an internal parameter by entering the following command from the BIG-IP CLI: /usr/share/ts/bin/add_del_internal add ignore_authorization_header_decode_failure 1 Then restart ASM for this to take effect: bigstart restart asm
The RFC compliance violation is no longer issued for unknown types of authorization headers.