Technical Specifications

Important

F5 NGINX ModSecurity WAF reached End of Sale (EoS) effective April 1, 2022. No further renewals will be accepted as of April 1, 2023.

NGINX ModSecurity WAF reaches End of Life (EoL) effective March 31, 2024.

For additional information, refer to the End of Life Announcement on the NGINX Blog. If you would like to contact your account manager at any time, please reach out to us.

F5 NGINX ModSecurity WAF is a module for NGINX Plus.

Supported Distributions

Alpine Linux

  • 3.9 (x86_64)
  • 3.10 (x86_64)
  • 3.11 (x86_64)

Amazon Linux

  • 2018.03+ (x86_64)

Amazon Linux 2

  • LTS (x86_64)

CentOS

  • 6.5+ (x86_64)
  • 7.4+ (x86_64)
  • 8.0+ (x86_64)

Debian

  • 9 (x86_64)
  • 10 (x86_64)

FreeBSD

  • 11.2+ (amd64, x86_64)
  • 12.0+ (amd64, x86_64)

Oracle Linux

  • 6.5+ (x86_64)
  • 7.4+ (x86_64)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • 6.5+ (x86_64)
  • 7.4+ (x86_64)
  • 8.0+ (x86_64)

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

  • 12 (x86_64)
  • 15 (x86_64)

Ubuntu

  • 16.04 LTS (x86_64)
  • 18.04 LTS (x86_64)
  • 19.10 (x86_64)
  • 20.04 (x86_64)

Note: CentOS/Oracle/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 users please see this advisory when upgrading to version 6.6.

Note: i386 and x86_64 support only, no aarch64 or ppc64le

Supported Deployment Environments

  • Bare metal
  • Container
  • Public cloud: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, MicrosoftAzure
  • Virtual Machine