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Hello,
After upgrading from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04, and while CSF+ProFTP server was working fine, now it doesn't allow to retrieve directory listing.
Any suggestions ?

Once an hour the load on one of our servers spikes big time. Normal load is barely above zero, but it spikes to loads over 100.0 for a minute or two then comes back down to normal.

When it spikes I always see these: processes, with the first one causing the load:

lfd - retrieving global lists
lfd - retrieving blocklists (waiting for list lock)
lfd - retrieving countrycode lists (waiting for...

Hello ,
I created a custom modsec rule that returns a 403 status code if there is a sql injection attempt, i want csf to block the ip that is triggering this rule by monitoring the log that modsec is logging in it , but it isnt blocking it at all
the log came up as either
/usr/local/apache/error_log or
/var/log/apache2/error_log

so in csf.conf i specified the MODSEC_LOG to be...

I'm using this rule I pulled from the forum:

# BLOCKING LiteSpeed attacks by Sergio

if (($lgfile eq $config{CUSTOM4_LOG}) and ($line =~ /^\S+\s+\S+\s\ .*Failed Login Attempt \- username: (\S+) ip: (\S+)/i)) {
return ( $1 ,$2, SECMAS_LiteSpeed , 1 , 1 );
}

on my cPanel/Linux box. In CSF.conf, I have

CUSTOM4_LOG = /usr/local/lsws/admin/logs/error.log

and a sample log line is

2024-09-09...

It seems LFD outputs its blocked messages (eg. Firewall: *UDP_IN Blocked* IN=eth0... ) to the system journal with priority 4 (warning), even when it's just blocking incoming traffic based on port number. This makes them gold-coloured in my TTY, but more annoyingly it gets spammed out to my VPS's emergency console standard output, putting out lines every few seconds. Is there a way to get LFD to...

Hello,

I am getting weird block mails everyday from ldf.

The title of the email is:

lfd on : :: (Unknown) blocked permanently

And the content is:

Time: Wed Sep 11 06:44:40 2024 +0300
IP: :: (Unknown)
Temporary Blocks: 48

Temporary blocks that triggered the permanent block:
Tue Sep 10 07:14:01 2024 (CT) IP :: (Unknown) found to have 32 connections
Tue Sep 10 07:44:01 2024 (CT) IP ::...

Hi there,
After the latest cpanel update to version 122.0.5 we have all of sudden been getting lfd email every hour as such:
Time: Mon Aug 26 16:07:26 2024 +0100
File: /tmp/.spamassassin3950SumxCatmp
Reason: Suspicious directory
Owner: nobody:nobody (99:99)
Action: No action taken

File: /tmp/.spamassassin3950SumxCatmp/.spamassassin
Reason: Suspicious directory
Owner: nobody:nobody (99:99)...

hi

CSF having an IP detection error. It is actually from Colombia, but it detects it as Romania

Query:

A) What database does CSF work with to query IP and country of origin?
B) How can you update the CSF IP database?
C) Is there a way to report this type of IP location errors?

Thank

Hello,

I get this email from my server:
Subject: Cron /usr/sbin/csf -u
Message: csf and lfd have been disabled, use 'csf -e' to enable

I logged in to WHM to enable again all connection become blocked, if I disable via SSH everything works fine.
I can't image what I have to do to work again, should I reinstall csf or how can I find the problem?
I did not changed anything for weeks, csf updated 5...

When CSF blocks an IP, it shows all the information of where and why including the country code. I'm not sure where CSF gets the country code information but why can't you simply block by the country code instead of huge lists of CIDR's? I am able to do this in Modesecurity but I would rather block for the entire server instead of just http.

Example block list:
218.155.106.83 # lfd:...

We are trying to block all incoming IPs and only allow cloudflare IPs. We've whitelisted this in csf.allow we still wanted to check if from CSF side if we can block all other traffic.

Hello Everyone :)

I hope you are well. I now manage numerous servers running WHM; and I have lately begun integrating config server security and firewall and login failure daemon to improve the security of these systems. While I have some familiarity with server management; I am new to the more advanced configurations and optimizations that CSF and LFD provide. I am seeking out this informed...

Hello,

After setup MESSENGERV3 when IP is blocked, return this error bellow on log, and show 404 page of Litespeed:

Failed to open : Permission denied

My csf.conf:

MESSENGERV3 = 1

MESSENGERV3LOCATION = /etc/apache2/conf.d/

MESSENGERV3RESTART = /scripts/restartsrv_httpd

MESSENGERV3TEST =

MESSENGERV3HTTPS_CONF = /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

MESSENGERV3WEBSERVER = apache...

Hi.

On a machine with CSF (although on others the problem has appeared after writing this ticket)

It has been installed and running for years.
The settings are very restrictive. Only port of entry 53 is open, the rest are not.
Access is only allowed to my ips. One of them dynamic, added to csf.dyndns

Today I couldn't get in. So I logged into the server via KVM (it's a proxmox)

The first thing...

In order to sort (some) compatibility with Docker and CSF we are working on an approach to allow docker to handle its iptables adding a chain on prerouting added in csfpost.sh

The problem is that for this to work we need to store all docker generated chains on each csf restart and reload them in csfpost.sh

For my surprise, csfpre.sh is not executed first on that process. CSF first clears all...

Hi, we do not see any CSF email alerts in the exim_mainlog, and we aren't receiving any either. The server is also running cPanel and WHM. We have taken the following steps to check that everything is set:
Testing = 0 in the configuration
LF_ALERT_TO AND X_ARF_TO are set to the correct email
Alerts are turned on in the configuration
LF_EMAIL_ALERT is set to 1 or true
/etc/aliases root is...

Hello everyone

Recently I'm receiving a lot of logs regarding spamd.
Do I need to worry about this?

Aug 21 05:57:24 cloud lfd : *User Processing* PID:270555 Kill:0 User:icaro Time:4337 EXE:/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/perl/536/bin/perl CMD:spamd child

Aug 21 06:01:24 cloud lfd : *Suspicious Process* PID:270556 PPID:269407 User:icaro Uptime:4577 secs...

Hello Guys,

I'm new to firewall/server configurations and I have a PCI scan result saying:

THREAT:
Your firewall policy seems to let TCP packets with a specific source port pass through.

IMPACT:
Some types of requests can pass through the firewall. The port number listed in the results section of this vulnerability report is the source
port that unauthorized users can use to bypass your...

Hi,

We have the following issues with Almalinux any suggestions?

# perl /usr/local/csf/bin/csftest.pl
Testing ip_tables/iptable_filter...FAILED - Required for csf to function
Testing ipt_LOG...FAILED - Required for csf to function
Testing ipt_multiport/xt_multiport...FAILED - Required for csf to function
Testing ipt_REJECT...FAILED - Required for csf to function
Testing...

Hello,

First its good to be back, its been since 2014/16 since i was here last, long long time.... I see you have changed support forum structure, looking good :) Hope you are all doing well...

I have a WHM/cPanel VPS that i am setting up with only 1 cPanel account, which is me, noone else will be using the VPS. The only access is root and my account login, SSH and FTP are disabled as is...