# Google Cloud WAF

## Introduction

This section covers an introduction to the GCP Web Application Firewall and shows how to bypass GCP WAF protection with a request body larger than 8KB.

GCP WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.

## What are we going to cover

This chapter will primarily cover

* Take a quick look at how WAF works
* The documented limitation within the GCP WAF
* Inspecting a request body
* What particular configurations are vulnerable and how an attacker can take advantage of this limitation


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