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description: Cloudflare WAF managed rulesets 2026-09-15 release
title: WAF Release - 2026-09-15
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September 15, 2026

## WAF Release - 2026-09-15

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This release introduces new threat detections to enhance protection against command injection attempts, Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) targeting cloud metadata, and information disclosure within version control history.

| Ruleset | Rule ID | Legacy Rule ID | Description | Previous Action | New Action | Comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...ca453d31 | N/A | SSRF - Cloud - 3 | Log | Block | This is a new detection. |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...e540f17f | N/A | Version Control - Information Disclosure - Beta | Log | Block | This rule is merged into the original rule "Version Control - Information Disclosure" (ID: ...0550c529). |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...ba458b4b | N/A | Command Injection - Generic 10 | Log | Block | This is a new detection. |

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