ASM attack signatures

Attack signatures are complex regular expressions which cover all known malicious input strings--think of SQL commands, Unix command line strings, etc. which can be sent to an application to probe for vulnerabilities or to mount an attack against a server or application. Attack signatures are written to address known threats against common server technologies such as Windows OS, Unix/Linux, PHP, MongoDB, and many more. There are layers of redundancy in F5-supplied attack signatures and they are extremely effective. CVEs are a little bit different, because they are transient attacks when compared with well understood historical attacks such as any sort of code injection. CVEs are addressed by Threat Campaigns in F5 Advanced WAF. Threat campaigns are extremely accurate relatives of attack signatures but focus on defeating the precise threat defined in the CVE.