NGINX App Protect WAF Release 4.1

January 31, 2023

This release includes new signatures for Anti Automation (bot defense):

• Added the following Site Monitor bot signatures: OhDear, Cloudflare Monitor, Google Uptime Monitor, NIXStatsbot
• Added the following Service Agent bot signatures: semanticbot, Datafeedwatch, W3C_Unicorn
• Added the following Crawler bot signatures: SearchAtlas, Baidu-YunGuanCe-Bot, Capsulink Crawler, arocom Crawler, sovrn Crawler, TangibleeBot Crawler, Curebot Crawler, DnyzBot Crawler, bitbot Crawler, Botify Crawler, myUsage Cralwer, RepoLookoutBot, Grafana Crawler

New Features

• Alpine 3.16 Support
• Apreload - NGINX App Protect WAF Standalone Configuration

Supported Packages

App Protect

Debian 11

• app-protect_28+4.100.1-1~bullseye_amd64.deb

Ubuntu 18.04

• app-protect_28+4.100.1-1~bionic_amd64.deb

Ubuntu 20.04

• app-protect_28+4.100.1-1~focal_amd64.deb

CentOS 7.4+ / RHEL 7.4+ / Amazon Linux 2

• app-protect-28+4.100.1-1.el7.ngx.x86_64.rpm

RHEL 8.1+

• app-protect-28+4.100.1-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm

Alpine 3.16

• app-protect-28.4.100.0-r1.apk

Oracle Linux 8.1+

• app-protect-28+4.100.1-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm

Resolved Issues

• 7298 Fixed - decodeValueAsBase64 feature is now disabled and the default value for decodeValueAsBase64 is set to disabled to avoid high chance of false positive violations.
• 7238 Fixed - Hyphen metacharacter is now allowed by default in JSON and XML Profiles.