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description: Cloudflare WAF managed and free rulesets 2026-11-03 release
title: WAF Release - 2026-11-03
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November 3, 2026

## WAF Release - 2026-11-03

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This release introduces updates to the underlying rule expressions for PHP out-of-memory (OOM) vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 and CVE-2026-115560. The improvements are iterative changes based on reports from Security Researchers as part of [PHP Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge ↗︎](https://blog.cloudflare.com/php-ctf).

| Ruleset | Rule ID | Legacy Rule ID | Description | Previous Action | New Action | Comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cloudflare Free Ruleset | ...bcd95984 | N/A | PHP Remote Code Execution Attack (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) #2 | Block | Block | Rule detection updated. |
| Cloudflare Free Ruleset | ...82dab691 | N/A | PHP Remote Code Execution Attack (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) #3 | Block | Block | Rule detection updated. |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...0a0c2f64 | N/A | PHP Remote Code Execution Attack (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) #2 | Block | Block | Rule detection updated. |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...545d163c | N/A | PHP Remote Code Execution Attack (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) #3 | Block | Block | Rule detection updated. |
| Cloudflare Managed Ruleset | ...13f91633 | N/A | phpMyAdmin - Authentication Bypass | N/A | Disabled | This is a new detection. |

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