diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 27c3c6da..c3ef2c41 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 v3.0.4 - YYYY-MMM-DD (to be released)
 -------------------------------------
 
+ - Rule variable interpolation broken
+   [Issue #1961 - @soonum, @zimmerle] 
  - Make the boundary check less strict as per RFC2046
    [Issue #1943 - @victorhora, @allanbomsft]
  - Fix buffer size for utf8toUnicode transformation
diff --git a/src/actions/set_var.cc b/src/actions/set_var.cc
index e099fb5b..8cb743e1 100644
--- a/src/actions/set_var.cc
+++ b/src/actions/set_var.cc
@@ -65,17 +65,17 @@ bool SetVar::evaluate(Rule *rule, Transaction *t) {
     Variables::User_DynamicElement *user = dynamic_cast<
         Variables::User_DynamicElement *> (v);
     if (tx) {
-        m_variableNameExpanded = tx->m_string->evaluate(t);
+        m_variableNameExpanded = tx->m_string->evaluate(t, rule);
     } else if (session) {
-        m_variableNameExpanded = session->m_string->evaluate(t);
+        m_variableNameExpanded = session->m_string->evaluate(t, rule);
     } else if (ip) {
-        m_variableNameExpanded = ip->m_string->evaluate(t);
+        m_variableNameExpanded = ip->m_string->evaluate(t, rule);
     } else if (resource) {
-        m_variableNameExpanded = resource->m_string->evaluate(t);
+        m_variableNameExpanded = resource->m_string->evaluate(t, rule);
     } else if (global) {
-        m_variableNameExpanded = global->m_string->evaluate(t);
+        m_variableNameExpanded = global->m_string->evaluate(t, rule);
     } else if (user) {
-        m_variableNameExpanded = user->m_string->evaluate(t);
+        m_variableNameExpanded = user->m_string->evaluate(t, rule);
     } else {
         m_variableNameExpanded = m_variable->m_name;
     }