Last Modified: Jun 19, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ Web App Security (ASM)
Known Affected Versions:
8.0.0.1
Opened: May 21, 2021 Severity: 3-Major
When creating a new Web Application Security Policy, if the Policy Template is set to Fundamental, the Policy Type will be set to Security Policy and locked to that option, preventing the selection of the Parent Policy policy type.
Unable to select Parent Policy as the policy type since the policy type section is locked and greyed out.
1. Create new Web Application Security Policy 2. Change Policy Template from default (Rapid Deployment Policy) to Fundamental
The Fundamental policy template has an Application Language of Auto-Detect and Parent Policies cannot have Auto-Detect as the Application Language selection. To create a Parent Policy using the Fundamental policy template another Application Language, like Unicode (utf-8) must be selected. 1. Create new Web Application Security Policy 2. Change Policy Template from default (Rapid Deployment Policy) to Fundamental 3. Select the desired Application Language (all values except "Auto-Detect") 4. Select the desired Policy Type
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