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description: Cloudflare WAF managed rulesets 2026-09-30 release
title: WAF Release - 2026-09-30
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September 30, 2026

## WAF Release - 2026-09-30

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This release introduces new detections to enhance protection against a specific GitLab path traversal vulnerability, alongside advanced generic rules targeting HTTP request smuggling, directory traversal, and command injection attempts.

**Key Findings**

- CVE-2026-85706: A path traversal vulnerability affecting GitLab.

| Ruleset | Rule ID | Legacy Rule ID | Description | Previous Action | New Action | Comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...cb14ded8 | N/A | Broken Access Control - Directory Traversal | Log | Block | This is a new detection. |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...0364bd7e | N/A | HTTP Request Smuggling - Request Body Anomaly - Beta | Log | Block | This rule is merged into the original rule "HTTP/2 Request Smuggling - Request Body Anomaly" (ID: ...1489d892). |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...d498a69a | N/A | Command Injection - Generic 8 - body - Beta | Disabled | Disabled | This rule is merged into the original rule "Command Injection - Generic 8 - body" (ID: ...413592e2). |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...87ae8cfc | N/A | GitLab - Path Traversal- CVE:CVE-2026-85706 | Log | Block | This is a new detection. |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...549f7356 | N/A | Generic - Request routing cache inconsistency | N/A | Block | This is a new detection. |

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