DetectionOnly was fundamentally broken in coraza-caddy (actually blocks
requests via anomaly scoring), caused massive audit log flooding, and the
threshold workaround had several issues:
- t:none is meaningless in a SecAction (no target to transform)
- SecRuleEngine directive ordering relative to SecAction is implementation-
defined, making the override fragile
- host.mode ?? 'DetectionOnly' fallbacks silently gave any host without an
explicit mode the broken DetectionOnly behaviour
Changes:
- Remove DetectionOnly from UI (global settings radio, per-host engine mode)
- Coerce legacy DB values of 'DetectionOnly' to 'On' in buildWafHandler
- Fix fallback defaults: host.mode ?? 'DetectionOnly' → host.mode ?? 'On'
- Fix action parsers: unknown mode defaults to 'On' (was 'DetectionOnly')
- Fix global settings defaultValue: ?? 'DetectionOnly' → ?? 'On' (or 'Off')
- Remove the fragile threshold SecAction workaround
- Update types: mode is now 'Off' | 'On' throughout
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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