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description: Cloudflare WAF managed rulesets 2025-12-18 release
title: WAF Release - 2025-12-18
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December 18, 2025

## WAF Release - 2025-12-18

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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) |

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