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## WAF Release - 2025-12-18

Dec 18, 2025 

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This week's release focuses on improvements to existing detections to enhance coverage.

**Key Findings**

* Existing rule enhancements have been deployed to improve detection resilience against broad classes of web attacks and strengthen behavioral coverage.

| Ruleset                    | Rule ID     | Legacy Rule ID | Description                                                       | Previous Action | New Action | Comments                                                                                                                    |
| -------------------------- | ----------- | -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...be5ec20c | N/A            | Atlassian Confluence - Code Injection - CVE:CVE-2021-26084 - Beta | Log             | Block      | This rule is merged into the original rule "Atlassian Confluence - Code Injection - CVE:CVE-2021-26084" (ID: ...69e0b97a  ) |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...0d9206e3 | N/A            | PostgreSQL - SQLi - Copy - Beta                                   | Log             | Block      | This rule is merged into the original rule "PostgreSQL - SQLi - COPY" (ID: ...e7265a4e  )                                   |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...0cd00ba7 | N/A            | Generic Rules - Command Execution - Body                          | Log             | Disabled   | This is a new detection.                                                                                                    |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...cd679ad4 | N/A            | Generic Rules - Command Execution - Header                        | Log             | Disabled   | This is a new detection.                                                                                                    |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...fd181fb3 | N/A            | Generic Rules - Command Execution - URI                           | Log             | Disabled   | This is a new detection.                                                                                                    |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...7a95bc3a | N/A            | SQLi - Tautology - URI - Beta                                     | Log             | Block      | This rule is merged into the original rule "SQLi - Tautology - URI" (ID: ...b3de2e0a  )                                     |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...432ac90d | N/A            | SQLi - WaitFor Function - Beta                                    | Log             | Block      | This rule is merged into the original rule "SQLi - WaitFor Function" (ID: ...d5faba59  )                                    |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...596c741e | N/A            | SQLi - AND/OR Digit Operator Digit 2 - Beta                       | Log             | Block      | This rule is merged into the original rule "SQLi - AND/OR Digit Operator Digit" (ID: ...88d80772  )                         |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...03b2f3fe | N/A            | SQLi - Equation 2 - Beta                                          | Log             | Block      | This rule is merged into the original rule "SQLi - Equation" (ID: ...a72a6b3a  )                                            |