diff --git a/src/assay.cc b/src/assay.cc
index 9992cdc8..3b43bc12 100644
--- a/src/assay.cc
+++ b/src/assay.cc
@@ -209,6 +209,13 @@ int Assay::processURI(const char *uri, const char *protocol,
 
     const char *pos = strchr(m_uri_decoded.c_str(), '?');
 
+    if (pos == NULL) {
+        store_variable("PATH_INFO", std::string(m_uri_decoded, 0));
+    } else {
+        store_variable("PATH_INFO", std::string(m_uri_decoded, 0,
+            pos - m_uri_decoded.c_str()));
+    }
+
     if (pos != NULL && strlen(pos) > 2) {
         /**
          * FIXME:
diff --git a/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll b/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
index d71c4dfa..12fd7137 100755
--- a/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
+++ b/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ OPERATORNOARG	(?i:@detectSQLi|@detectXSS|@geoLookup|@validateUrlEncoding|@valida
 
 TRANSFORMATION  t:(lowercase|urlDecodeUni|urlDecode|none|compressWhitespace|removeWhitespace|replaceNulls|removeNulls|htmlEntityDecode|jsDecode|cssDecode|trim)
 
-VARIABLE          (?i:MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR|MULTIPART_NAME|MULTIPART_FILENAME|MULTIPART_CRLF_LF_LINES|MATCHED_VAR_NAME|MATCHED_VARS_NAMES|MATCHED_VAR|MATCHED_VARS|INBOUND_DATA_ERROR|OUTBOUND_DATA_ERROR|FULL_REQUEST|FILES|AUTH_TYPE|ARGS_NAMES|ARGS|QUERY_STRING|REMOTE_ADDR|REQUEST_BASENAME|REQUEST_BODY|REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES|REQUEST_COOKIES|REQUEST_FILENAME|REQUEST_HEADERS_NAMES|REQUEST_HEADERS|REQUEST_METHOD|REQUEST_PROTOCOL|REQUEST_URI|RESPONSE_BODY|RESPONSE_CONTENT_LENGTH|RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE|RESPONSE_HEADERS_NAMES|RESPONSE_HEADERS|RESPONSE_PROTOCOL|RESPONSE_STATUS|TX|GEO)
+VARIABLE          (?i:MULTIPART_STRICT_ERROR|PATH_INFO|MULTIPART_NAME|MULTIPART_FILENAME|MULTIPART_CRLF_LF_LINES|MATCHED_VAR_NAME|MATCHED_VARS_NAMES|MATCHED_VAR|MATCHED_VARS|INBOUND_DATA_ERROR|OUTBOUND_DATA_ERROR|FULL_REQUEST|FILES|AUTH_TYPE|ARGS_NAMES|ARGS|QUERY_STRING|REMOTE_ADDR|REQUEST_BASENAME|REQUEST_BODY|REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES|REQUEST_COOKIES|REQUEST_FILENAME|REQUEST_HEADERS_NAMES|REQUEST_HEADERS|REQUEST_METHOD|REQUEST_PROTOCOL|REQUEST_URI|RESPONSE_BODY|RESPONSE_CONTENT_LENGTH|RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE|RESPONSE_HEADERS_NAMES|RESPONSE_HEADERS|RESPONSE_PROTOCOL|RESPONSE_STATUS|TX|GEO)
 RUN_TIME_VAR_DUR  (?i:DURATION)
 RUN_TIME_VAR_ENV  (?i:ENV)
 RUN_TIME_VAR_BLD  (?i:MODSEC_BUILD)
diff --git a/test/test-cases/regression/variable-PATH_INFO.json b/test/test-cases/regression/variable-PATH_INFO.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..10fb251d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test-cases/regression/variable-PATH_INFO.json
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+[
+  {
+    "enabled":1,
+    "version_min":300000,
+    "title":"Testing Variables :: PATH_INFO",
+    "client":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":123
+    },
+    "server":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":80
+    },
+    "request":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Host":"localhost",
+        "User-Agent":"curl/7.38.0",
+        "Accept":"*/*",
+        "Content-Length":"27",
+        "Content-Type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
+      },
+      "uri":"/one/two/three",
+      "protocol":"POST",
+      "body":[
+        "param1=value1&param2=value2"
+      ]
+    },
+    "response":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Date":"Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:02:41 GMT",
+        "Last-Modified":"Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:33:37 GMT",
+        "Content-Type":"text/html"
+      },
+      "body":[
+        "no need."
+      ]
+    },
+    "expected":{
+      "debug_log":"Target value: \"/one/two/three\" \\(Variable: PATH_INFO\\)"
+    },
+    "rules":[
+      "SecRuleEngine On",
+      "SecDebugLog \/tmp\/modsec_debug.log",
+      "SecDebugLogLevel 9",
+      "SecRule PATH_INFO \"@contains test \" \"phase:3,pass,t:trim\""
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "enabled":1,
+    "version_min":300000,
+    "title":"Testing Variables :: PATH_INFO",
+    "client":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":123
+    },
+    "server":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":80
+    },
+    "request":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Host":"localhost",
+        "User-Agent":"curl/7.38.0",
+        "Accept":"*/*",
+        "Content-Length":"27",
+        "Content-Type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
+      },
+      "uri":"/one/two/three?key=value",
+      "protocol":"POST",
+      "body":[
+        "param1=value1&param2=value2"
+      ]
+    },
+    "response":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Date":"Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:02:41 GMT",
+        "Last-Modified":"Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:33:37 GMT",
+        "Content-Type":"text/html"
+      },
+      "body":[
+        "no need."
+      ]
+    },
+    "expected":{
+      "debug_log":"Target value: \"/one/two/three\" \\(Variable: PATH_INFO\\)"
+    },
+    "rules":[
+      "SecRuleEngine On",
+      "SecDebugLog \/tmp\/modsec_debug.log",
+      "SecDebugLogLevel 9",
+      "SecRule PATH_INFO \"@contains test \" \"phase:3,pass,t:trim\""
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "enabled":1,
+    "version_min":300000,
+    "title":"Testing Variables :: PATH_INFO",
+    "client":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":123
+    },
+    "server":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":80
+    },
+    "request":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Host":"localhost",
+        "User-Agent":"curl/7.38.0",
+        "Accept":"*/*",
+        "Content-Length":"27",
+        "Content-Type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
+      },
+      "uri":"/one/two/%20/three?key=value",
+      "protocol":"POST",
+      "body":[
+        "param1=value1&param2=value2"
+      ]
+    },
+    "response":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Date":"Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:02:41 GMT",
+        "Last-Modified":"Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:33:37 GMT",
+        "Content-Type":"text/html"
+      },
+      "body":[
+        "no need."
+      ]
+    },
+    "expected":{
+      "debug_log":"Target value: \"/one/two/ /three\" \\(Variable: PATH_INFO\\)"
+    },
+    "rules":[
+      "SecRuleEngine On",
+      "SecDebugLog \/tmp\/modsec_debug.log",
+      "SecDebugLogLevel 9",
+      "SecRule PATH_INFO \"@contains test \" \"phase:3,pass,t:trim\""
+    ]
+  }
+]
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