Bug ID 446664: Content length header leading whitespaces may cause false-positive

Last Modified: Jul 18, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 11.5.1 hf1, 11.5.1 hf2, 11.5.1 hf3, 11.5.1 hf4, 11.5.1 hf5, 11.5.1 hf6, 11.5.1 hf7, 11.5.1 hf8, 11.5.1 hf9, 11.5.1 hf10, 11.5.1 hf11, 11.5.2, 11.5.2 hf1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 hf1, 11.5.3 hf2, 11.5.4, 11.5.4 hf1, 11.5.4 hf2, 11.5.4 hf3, 11.5.4 hf4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10

Fixed In:
11.6.0

Opened: Jan 29, 2014

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

ASM blocks a request where the Content-Length header value has more than 20 leading spaces.

Impact

Web application requests are getting false positive blocks.

Conditions

-- ASM provisioned. -- ASM policy attached to a virtual server. -- 'Unparsable request content' sub-violation is enabled under 'HTTP protocol compliance checks' in the ASM policy.

Workaround

Use an iRule that strips leading spaces from the Content-Length header value.

Fix Information

This release fixes an issue that sometimes might have incorrectly triggered an unparseable request violation.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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