Comment on Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)parentComments−cluckindan1yThey do mitigate known vulnerabilities.−rcxdude1yThey may mitigate known proofs of concept of vulnerabilities, and require a small amount of creativity to work around. At the cost of randomly breaking things.−cluckindan1yThat creativity takes time. WAFs are the first line of defence, buying some time for fixing the actual vulnerabilities.
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They do mitigate known vulnerabilities.
They may mitigate known proofs of concept of vulnerabilities, and require a small amount of creativity to work around. At the cost of randomly breaking things.
That creativity takes time. WAFs are the first line of defence, buying some time for fixing the actual vulnerabilities.