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AFD WAF - Path Traversal Attack

Description

'Identifies a match for a Path Traversal based attack in the AFD WAF logs. The threshold value in the query can be changed as per your infrastructure's requirements. References: https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal'
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.1
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
6h
Query period
6h
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let Threshold = 3;
AzureDiagnostics
| where Category =~ "FrontDoorWebApplicationFirewallLog"
| where action_s =~ "AnomalyScoring"
| where details_msg_s has "Path Traversal Attack"
| parse details_data_s with MessageText "Matched Data:" MatchedData "AND " * "table_name FROM " TableName " " *
| project trackingReference_s, host_s, requestUri_s, TimeGenerated, clientIP_s, details_matches_s, details_msg_s, details_data_s, TableName, MatchedData
| join kind = inner(
AzureDiagnostics
| where Category =~ "FrontDoorWebApplicationFirewallLog"
| where action_s =~ "Block") on trackingReference_s
| summarize URI_s = make_set(requestUri_s,100), Table = make_set(TableName,100), StartTime = min(TimeGenerated), EndTime = max(TimeGenerated), TrackingReference = make_set(trackingReference_s,100), Matched_Data = make_set(MatchedData,100), Detail_Data = make_set(details_data_s,100), Detail_Message = make_set(details_msg_s,100), Total_TrackingReference = dcount(trackingReference_s) by clientIP_s, host_s, action_s
| where Total_TrackingReference >= Threshold

Declared entities

URLIP

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

Source identifier
a4d99328-e4e6-493d-b0d5-57e6f9ddae77
Additional source files 2Solutions/Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)/Analytic Rules/AFD-WAF-Path-Traversal-Attack.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)/Data/Solution_AzureWAF.jsonsolution-membership ↗
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING

Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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