IIS connector: audit log F part always shows '500 Internal Server Error' for normal traffic

Author: A13501350Created Aug 14, 2026Updated Aug 14, 2026
LabelsPlatform - IIS2.x

Summary

In the IIS connector (iis/mymodule.cpp), the audit log's F part (response status line) renders as HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error for every transaction, even for normal requests that actually return e.g. 200 OK or 404.

Root cause

The IIS connector never copies the real HTTP response status into the request_rec. In CMyHttpModule::OnSendResponse, r->status is left at its initial value 0 (the request_rec is apr_pcalloc'd). When hookfn_log_transaction later builds the F part it calls ap_get_status_line(r->status); for r->status == 0 the standalone ap_index_of_response() maps anything < 100 to the LEVEL_500 bucket, producing 500 Internal Server Error.

Affected output

--A--
[13/Aug/2026:16:16:40.333548] ...
--F--
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error   <- should be the real status (e.g. 200 OK)

Proposed fix

In CMyHttpModule::OnSendResponse (iis/mymodule.cpp), transfer pRawHttpResponse->StatusCode into r->status (and build r->status_line from the reason phrase) before the rest of the response handling:

cpp
if(pRawHttpResponse->StatusCode > 0)
{
    r->status = pRawHttpResponse->StatusCode;

    if(pRawHttpResponse->pReason != NULL && pRawHttpResponse->ReasonLength > 0)
    {
        r->status_line = apr_psprintf(r->pool, "%d %s", r->status,
            ZeroTerminate(pRawHttpResponse->pReason, pRawHttpResponse->ReasonLength, r->pool));
    }
}

This makes the audit log F part and relevant-status checks use the real response code. Verified against a local IIS (default site + OWASP CRS): a normal GET / now logs HTTP/1.1 200 OK, blocked requests log HTTP/1.1 403 ModSecurity Action.

Source: owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity