Virtual Patching with the NGINX JavaScript Module
Virtual Patching with the NGINX JavaScript Module table, th, tr, td { border: 0; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; } Virtual patching refers to fixing a problem with application code by making a change to related infrastructure rather than the code itself. In the security realm, it’s common to use ModSecurity to virtually patch a vulnerability, for example. But virtual patching can be applied to other types of bugs as well, such as the bugs in backend applications we often encounter in production environments. For various reasons it can be challenging to fix these bugs directly (for example, if the original developer has left the company) and virtual patching is a practical alternative. An NGINX Plus customer recently experienced an unusual issue: a client‑side app was making GET and POST requests in lowercase (as get and post). The backend application [ more… ]