NGINX App Protect WAF 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.