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WAF Release - 2026-10-21 - Emergency - Cloudflare Free Ruleset

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This emergency release adds seven rules to the Cloudflare Free Ruleset to block anomalous request patterns.

RulesetRule IDLegacy Rule IDDescriptionPrevious ActionNew ActionComments
Cloudflare Free RulesetN/AGeneric Rules - Anomalous Execution - 1N/ABlockThis is a new detection.
Cloudflare Free RulesetN/AGeneric Rules - Anomalous Execution - 2N/ABlockThis is a new detection.
Cloudflare Free RulesetN/AGeneric Rules - Anomalous Execution - 3N/ABlockThis is a new detection.
Cloudflare Free RulesetN/AGeneric Rules - Anomalous Execution - 4N/ABlockThis is a new detection.
Cloudflare Free RulesetN/AGeneric Rules - Anomalous Execution - 5N/ABlockThis is a new detection.
Cloudflare Free RulesetN/AGeneric Rules - Anomalous Execution - 6N/ABlockThis is a new detection.
Cloudflare Free RulesetN/AGeneric Rules - Anomalous Execution - 7N/ABlockThis is a new detection.

For more information, refer to WAF Managed Rules.