NGINX App Protect WAF Release 4.3

May 2, 2023

In this release, NGINX App Protect WAF supports NGINX Plus R29.

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

  • Added the following Crawler bot signatures: YOURLS Crawler, Atomseo broken link checker, proxylist.to Checker, Aspiegel Crawler, digitalshadowsbot, idealo-bot pricevalidator
  • Added the following Exploit Tool bot signatures: BackDoorBot
  • Added the following Site Monitor bot signatures: RWTH Aachen University Scanner
  • Added the following Service Agent bot signatures: AirPlay Server Info, WP Rocket Preload

Supported Packages

App Protect

Debian 11
  • app-protect_29+4.279.0-1~bullseye_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 18.04
  • app-protect_29+4.279.0-1~bionic_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 20.04
  • app-protect_29+4.279.0-1~focal_amd64.deb
CentOS 7.4+ / RHEL 7.4+ / Amazon Linux 2
  • app-protect-29+4.279.0-1.el7.ngx.x86_64.rpm
RHEL 8.1+
  • app-protect-29+4.279.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm
Alpine 3.16
  • app-protect-29.4.279.0-r1.apk
Oracle Linux 8.1+
  • app-protect-29+4.279.0-1.el8.ngx.x86_64.rpm

NGINX Plus

  • NGINX Plus R29

Resolved Issues

  • 7987 Fixed - Fixed Violation Rating calculation for trusted bots, untrusted bots and malicious bots.
  • 8010 Fixed - Handling of response headers.

Important Note

This release introduces a change in the json_log field output for Violation details. Starting with NGINX App Protect WAF release 4.3, the Security Log’s json_log field will include all available information regarding Violation details in JSON format. Refer Security Log document for more details.


This documentation applies to the following versions of NGINX App Protect WAF: 4.3.