Take 228 - General Availability

List of Resolved Issues and New Features

Note - This Take contains all fixes from all earlier Takes.

ID

Product

Description

Take 228

Released on 2 February 2021 and declared as General Availability on 16 March 2021

PRJ-19947,
PMTR-62429

Security Management

NEW: Added new Management HA utility to schedule automatic full syncs to peers that failed to be synchronized incrementally.

PRJ-19697,
PRJ-13465

Security Management

UPDATE: If a Management HA synchronization stalls (displaying "Peer is busy"), it will be released within 2 hours instead of 24 hours.

PRJ-17762,
PMTR-58785

Security Management

When migrating a Security Management Server that was created as a standby and then set to active, into a Domain Management Server, the new Domain is created without an active Domain Server.

PRJ-19083,
PRHF-13972

Security Management

In some scenarios, HA synchronization may fill up the disk space of a standby Management Server. Refer to sk168492.

PRJ-17691,
PRHF-13332

Security Management

In some scenarios, HA temporary sub-directories under $FWDIR/tmp are not deleted if sync fails. Refer to sk170972.

PRJ-18287,
PMTR-61010

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the CPU and memory usage of the CPM process may be abnormally high. Refer to sk170672.

PRJ-20114,
PMTR-60541

Security Management

In a rare scenario, the FWM process unexpectedly exits.

PRJ-18378,
PMTR-53043

Security Management

In some scenarios, SecurID configuration files on the Security Gateway are overridden upon policy installation.

PRJ-18474,
PRHF-13644

Security Management

In some scenarios, the first environment variable configured using sk165938 is not loaded and not used by the CPM process.

PRJ-19952,
PRHF-14394

Security Management

The Management HA window in SmartConsole may mistakenly show the "Peer is busy" warning message for a few seconds.

PRJ-17727,
PRHF-13278

Security Management

Upgrade may fail if a Data Center object was last modified by an Administrator with a single quote in the name.

PRJ-18897,
PRHF-13860

Security Management

Policy installation may fail after migration from Domain Management to Security Management Server.

PRJ-21077

Security Management

When installing an R80.30 Jumbo Hotfix Take higher than 83 on Security Management server, the /opt/CPSFWR80CMP-R80.30/conf/vpn_route.conf file is overwritten. Refer to sk170573.

PRJ-19272,
PRHF-14074

Security Management

Policy installation duration may increase due to a large $FWDIR/conf/invalid_object_names.C file on the Management Server. Refer to sk170427.

PRJ-17212,
PRHF-12851

Multi-Domain Management

UPDATE: With this fix, mds_backup will back up the Upgrade Tools package(s) and mds_restore will restore them on a Multi-Domain Server.

PRJ-19276,
PRHF-13977

Multi-Domain Management

In rare scenarios, the Management Server becomes inaccessible after a Global Policy reassign operation.

PRJ-18250,
PRHF-12413

Multi-Domain Management

Migration of Domain Server between different Multi-Domain Servers may fail due to incorrect internal values of default objects.

PRJ-17561,
PRHF-12885

Multi-Domain Management

In some scenarios, reassigning a Global Policy may fail if the Global and local domains are not active on the same Multi-Domain Server.

PRJ-19646,
PMTR-62201

Multi-Domain Management

In rare scenarios, a Domain is shown in the Domains view without any Domain Server or a Domain is shown with Domain Server that was deleted and does not exist anymore. Refer to sk170556.

PRJ-19318,
PMTR-61346

SmartConsole

NEW: Added support for Python 3 in Management API scripts.

PRJ-20245,
PMTR-62490

SmartConsole

UPDATE: A pop-up warning will be displayed every time a "Custom Application" object with a performance impacting URL is edited (instead of being displayed only once).

PRJ-13811,
PRJ-13808

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, the Administrators view shows all administrators in all domains regardless of the specific permission profile of the connected administrator.

PRJ-18883,
PRHF-13818

SmartConsole

Setting values for the environment variables of the Management API as per sk165938 does not work: the values are neither loaded nor used by the API process.

PRJ-20146,
PRJ-20145

SmartConsole

SmartConsole may disconnect when searching in the Object Explorer for the text with an odd number of double quotes.

PRJ-13814,
PMTR-19017

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, when the user attempts to delete a VSX Gateway / VSX Cluster, an error message may appear and the operation may not be completed successfully. Refer to sk167492.

  • Requires R80.30 SmartConsole Build 99 (or higher).

PRJ-20379,
PMTR-62935

SmartConsole

Adding Global dynamic objects to source or destination columns of access rules on the Global Domain via Management API may fail when using the Global dynamic object names.

PRJ-13122,
PRHF-11105

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, the "Update operation failed" error is displayed when attempting to delete a Gateway from the VPN community. Refer to sk167212.

PRJ-19832,
PMTR-50205

SmartConsole

The "show objects" command returns all objects in Global domain with any filter when "ip-only" flag is set to "true".

PRJ-20785,
PRHF-13556

SmartConsole

When the user creates an Access Role, the AD organization tree may show duplicate branches, and some branches may be missing.

PRJ-19533,
PMTR-62078

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, when adding a new user certificate of type .p12 via API command, the returned certificate may be incorrect.

PRJ-19201,
PRHF-13955

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, when using the "set simple-gateway" API command with "logs-settings.forward-logs-to-log-server", it fails with "Generic server error". Refer to sk170352.

PRJ-18381,
PRHF-13609

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, running an action on a ROBO Gateway behind NAT does not work during sync on SMB appliances.

PRJ-14105,
PRHF-11590

SmartConsole

Search in Threat Prevention Exceptions in Protection/Site/File/Blade column may not return all expected results.

PRJ-18464,
PRHF-13551

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, Staging mode IPS protections activation in the Local domain does not match the activation in the Global domain after a Global Threat Prevention policy assignment. Refer to sk170322.

PRJ-18779,
PMTR-56281

SmartView

In rare scenarios, "Critical attacks allowed by policy widgets" in the "General Overview" view may show no results while actual data exists. Refer to sk171001.

PRJ-19844,
PMTR-62010

SmartView

UPDATE: Improved the time resolutions usability (formally known as samples) of the Timeline widgets.

PRJ-17996,
SL-2106

Logging

NEW:

  1. Log Exporter can now schedule a recurring reconnection to the target 3rd party server periodically. This allows usage of a Load Balancer component for target servers.
  2. The target 3rd party server can be declared as a DNS name also when using UDP protocol.

PRJ-1655,
SL-1901

Logging

UPDATE: Added ability to SOLR process running on the Log server to prevent TLS1.1 and below in port 8211. Refer to sk168472.

PRJ-7524,
SL-2989

Logging

Connection between the Gateway and the Log Server may go down, with this error message in the fwd.elg file on the Gateway: "Log server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx went down".

PRJ-19818,
SL-4358

Logging

In rare scenarios, the LOG_INDEXER process may unexpectedly exit when reading a specific log format. Refer to sk116117.

PRJ-5873,
PRHF-3460

Logging

In rare scenarios, when the user configures a custom event with a script based automatic reaction in SmartEvent, the SmartEvent client may show the "Server is not responding. Please try to reconnect later" error. Refer to sk155192.

PRJ-19715,
PMTR-53967

Logging

When installing a newer Jumbo Hotfix, the Log Exporter filtering configuration may not persist and set to default.

PRJ-2522,
SL-1755

Logging

In rare scenarios, the log_indexer process may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-17163,
PMTR-59241

Logging

The "show-log" API command may fail with the "GENERIC_SERVER_ERROR" error.

PRJ-11311,
PMTR-51802

Logging

In Multi-Domain Management environments, some of the log_indexer processes may fail to start due to an occupied port.

PRJ-16175,
PMTR-55550

Logging

In some scenarios, the cpsemd process on the log server may close unexpectedly during a restart, shutdown or upgrade.

PRJ-12200,
PRJ-12201,
PRHF-10306

Logging

In some scenarios, the "Failed to fetch the file" error is displayed when trying to open Threat Emulation summary reports generated by VSX Gateways.

PRJ-11342,
PRJ-19227,
PRHF-9582

Security Gateway

NEW: Added support for authentication with a RADIUS server that expects to receive an empty password on the first message. VPN client will receive 2 dialogs instead of 3.

PRJ-20336,
PRJ-20337,
PMTR-57101

Security Gateway

NEW: Added Performance improvement when IP Pool NAT is used.

PRJ-20676,
PMTR-62328

Security Gateway

NEW: Added the Connection Tracker module - a background mechanism collecting connection flows' key points vertically from all Security gateway components. The connection flows helps understanding connectivity and latency issue pointing on successful / problematic stages in a connection lifecycle.

PRJ-18233,
PRJ-18067,
PRJ-19063,
PRJ-20718,
PRJ-20719,
PRJ-20057,
PRJ-20737,
PRJ-20736,
PRJ-20058,
PRJ-19219,
PRJ-18833

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, Security Gateway memory consumption may increase.

PRJ-7737,
PRJ-19485,
AVIR-479

Security Gateway

False "alert" logs may be displayed in some Anti-Spam events.

PRJ-18628,
PRJ-18629,
PRHF-11912

Security Gateway

Wrong memory (hmem) values may be reported by specific SNMP OID. Refer to sk168992.

PRJ-13345,
PRJ-19281,
PRHF-8408

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, the FWD process opens connections to port 111.

PRJ-20513,
PRJ-20514,
PRHF-14630

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, when using routing separation, connection to Management Plane via Data Plane is dropped.

PRJ-19955,
PRJ-19956,
PMTR-62477

Security Gateway

Half-closed accelerated TCP connections may take too long time to expire.

PRJ-13375,
PRJ-13376
PMTR-54887

Security Gateway

The TCP State Logging feature may not work as expected. Refer to sk101221.

PRJ-20954,
PRJ-20953

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, logs with incorrect action are generated by ICAP server.

PRJ-20653,
PRJ-20654,
PMTR-63092

Security Gateway

Accept logs with reason "Connection terminated before detection: Insufficient data passed. To learn more see sk113479." may be wrongly generated when the matched action is user authentication and wrong username/password provided by user.

PRJ-13969,
PRJ-18236,
PRHF-11634

IPS

UPDATE: The "ips stat" command now shows all active Threat Prevention profiles with IPS enabled on the Security gateway.

PRJ-19298,
PRJ-19299,
PRHF-13560

IPS

In some scenarios, log output shows the Origin/Source as "0.0.0.0" in VSX 3rd party IPS logs.

PRJ-16444,
PRJ-16445,
PRHF-12684

IPS

The get_ips_statistics.sh script on VSX may fail with "/bin/cat: /proc/self/vrf: No such file or directory" error.

PRJ-13498,
PRJ-19199,
PRHF-10943

IPS

In some scenarios, a non-compliant IMAP traffic is dropped.

PRJ-19743,
PRHF-13998

Anti-Bot

Dynamic Global Network Object usage inside a Network Group object may cause an Access Policy installation failure.

PRJ-19590,
PRJ-16924

Anti-Virus

In rare scenarios, after downloading files, Anti-Virus prevent logs appear with "Strict hold is not possible failure - Write to other side occured" error message.

  • Fix is relevant for Gaia 3.10 only.

PRJ-19597,
PRJ-19600,
PRHF-14259

DLP

UPDATE: Improved the DLP scans queue for a better scan rate.

PRJ-19920,
PRJ-19921,
PRHF-14156

DLP

UPDATE: Expanded DLP postfix authentication to include NTLM to allow the Security gateway to connect to a mail servers that use the NTLM authentication protocol.

PRJ-18988,
PRJ-18989,
PMTR-59795

DLP

In a rare scenario, "SEC Filings - Draft or Recent" Data Type in DLP is not properly enforced.

PRJ-17872,
PRJ-17873,
PRHF-10279

HTTPS Inspection

UPDATE: "Categorize HTTPS websites" feature enhancements when "Categorize HTTPS Sites" feature is enabled:

  • Improved enforcement of first connection when URL Filtering setting is 'Hold' mode
  • Added SNI information to connection logs when connection is matched on rule with "Extended Log"
  • Hold mode granularity

For configuration, refer to sk173633.

PRJ-19467,
PRJ-19466,
PMTR-58086

HTTPS Inspection

In some scenarios, the HTTPS Inspection CA bundle is not created on the Security Gateway.

PRJ-16561,
PRJ-16562,
PMTR-58568

Anti-Malware

Security Gateway may crash when certain traffic is handled during policy installation and the Anti-Virus Deep Scanning is enabled.

PRJ-16621,
PRJ-16622,
PRHF-12737

Anti-Malware

Exported with "ioc_feeds export" command indicator feeds may contain user credentials. Refer to sk169035.

PRJ-15224,
PRJ-18762,
PMTR-54248

Anti-Malware

In a rare scenario, HTTP connections are timed-out.

PRJ-17842,
PRJ-18561,
PMTR-58416

Anti-Malware

In some scenarios, Threat Prevention logs appear half-full (not unified).

PRJ-18700,
PRHF-12299

UserCheck

When using the UserCheck agent, the original URL attribute variable $orig_url$ may appear on URL field of log details.

PRJ-19159,
PRJ-19160,
TEX-1482

Threat Extraction

UPDATE: Threat Extraction will no longer attempt to perform "Convert to PDF" if the file is corrupted, because the resulting files in these cases are usually unreadable.

To reactivate this behavior, set the "enable_alternative_scrub_method" variable in $FWDIR/conf/scrub_debug.conf file to 1 and install the Security policy.

PRJ-9944,
PRJ-17021,
PRHF-8315

Threat Extraction

In some scenarios, multiple files called "ckp_mutex" are created on the Security Gateway.

PRJ-17419,
PMTR-45649

Threat Prevention

Improvements in HTTP chunked encoding inspection.

PRJ-18246,
PRJ-18124

Identity Awareness

NEW: Added Identity Sharing's performance and functionality improvements. Refer to sk170516.

  • Fix is relevant for Gaia 3.10 only.

PRJ-13174,
PRJ-17912,
PMTR-53443

Identity Awareness

UPDATE: Optimized memory usage in the PDP process's LDAP operations.

PRJ-19637,
PRJ-19638,
PMTR-61982

Identity Awareness

In some scenarios, when a standby cluster member receives RADIUS accounting updates, there may be high CPU on the PDP process.

PRJ-19747,
PRJ-19746,
PRHF-14338

Identity Awareness

In some scenarios, the Security Gateway may not recognize an IP address as a local address, resulting in wrong drops.

PRJ-18178,
PRJ-18179,
MBS-12220

URL Filtering

In some scenarios, the wstlsd process may unexpectedly exit and produce a core dump.

PRJ-17324,
PRJ-17325,
PRHF-13031

Mobile Access

Remote access connectivity failure when the user belongs to number of groups that exceeds the limited available space (200~ groups).

PRJ-14363,
PRJ-14358

ClusterXL

Same MAC Magic configuration on different clusters in Unicast mode may cause flapping in switch. Refer to sk167206.

PRJ-16514,
PRJ-16515,
MBS-11708

SecureXL

NEW: Added the ability to enable monitor-only mode for penalty box independently of other DOS/Rate limiting features.

PRJ-18321,
PRJ-18322,
PRHF-13474

SecureXL

UPDATE: Drop templates can be generated for connections with matched action Reject. For additional information and configuration, refer to sk171146.

PRJ-20053,
PRJ-20054,
PRHF-14417

SecureXL

In rare scenarios, SecureXL may crash due to NULL handling.

PRJ-16581,
PRJ-16582,
PRHF-12716

SecureXL

In some scenarios, traffic with the destination IP address as the broadcast address configured according to sk98810 is dropped.

PRJ-18082,
PRJ-18083,
PRHF-13507

SecureXL

SNMP may show wrong values for the number of bytes and packets accepted by Security gateway. Refer to sk170132.

PRJ-20049,
PRHF-14165

SecureXL

Memory leak may appear in VPN or Active Streaming configuration.

  • Fix is relevant for Gaia 3.10 only.

PRJ-20025,
PRJ-20026,
PRHF-14228

SecureXL

Server may not reuse the TCP connection when the user allows out of state TCP packets.

PRJ-19461,
PRJ-19462,
PMTR-60878

Routing

Routed logs may incorrectly state that routemaps that export to OSPF cannot set the OSPF manual tag, even though the functionality works.

PRJ-20046,
PRJ-20047,
PRHF-14304

Routing

In some scenarios, large number of unnecessary log messages may be sent to /var/log/messages file which makes it difficult to run debug. Refer to sk170796.

PRJ-20437,
PRJ-20438,
PMTR-45014

Routing

ECMP route nexthops learned from BGP peers may be not properly updated in the kernel, resulting in network connectivity loss.

PRJ-20442,
PRJ-20443,
ROUT-1325

Routing

The old route may be not removed when an BGP ECMP route was changed.

PRJ-18278,
PMTR-58528

Routing

Certain types of multicast traffic may not be handled correctly in Bridge mode.

  • Fix is relevant to Gaia 3.10 only.

PRJ-20469,
PRJ-20470,
PRHF-14653

Gaia OS

In some scenarios, the Security Gateway attempts to fetch the policy from / send logs to the real IP address of the Management Server (defined in the "General Properties" section of the server object) instead of the server's NAT IP address (defined in the "NAT" section of the server object).

Refer to sk171055 to configure the required parameter FORCE_NATTED_IP.

PRJ-18239,
PRJ-18241,
PRHF-13451

Gaia OS

"cphaprob -h" shows incorrect explanation for "cphaprob show_bond [<bond_name>]" command.

PRJ-19328,
PRJ-19329,
PRHF-14073

Gaia OS

In some scenarios, login from data plane context fails (no connectivity to server).

PRJ-18609,
PMTR-60804

Gaia OS

Bond interface in XOR mode or 802.3AD (LACP) mode may experience suboptimal performance, if on the Bond interface the Transmit Hash Policy is configured to "Layer 3+4" and Multi-Queue is enabled.

  • Fix is relevant for Gaia 3.10 only.

PRJ-18079,
PRJ-18080,
PRHF-13504,
PRJ-18084

Gaia OS

On environments with large IP routing tables, the SNMPD process may consume 100% CPU when running a scan from an external tool. Refer to sk170150.

PRJ-20941,
PRJ-20942,
PMTR-63343

Gaia OS

Upgrade process may fail due to corrupted sic_local_cert.p12 certificate. Refer to sk171253.

PRJ-18786,
PRJ-18787,
PMTR-60976,
PRJ-19673,
PMTR-62275

VPN

NEW: Added VPN command line mechanism stability enhancement and VPN improvements in IKEv2.

PRJ-17485,
PRJ-17486,
PMTR-40127

VPN

NEW: Added Anti-Spoofing functionality for Remote Access Office Mode IPs in SecureXL.

PRJ-16430,
PRJ-16431

VPN

UPDATE: Added ability to fetch CRL with proxy in Site to Site VPN.

PRJ-19088,
PRJ-19089,
PMTR-61752

VPN

UPDATE: Remote Access VPN stability improvement.

PRJ-15740,
PRJ-15741,
PRHF-12010

VPN

In some scenarios, findSAByPeer does not validate the peer IP address for DAIP peer behind NAT.

PRJ-16339,
PRJ-16340,
PRHF-12447

VPN

The user may be unable to connect with Remote Access when the username or user field in the certificate is too long.

PRJ-14334,
PRHF-9885

VPN

A connectivity issue may occur when a non-encrypted VPN tunnel is used with IKEv2. Refer to sk167902.

  • Fix is relevant for Gaia 3.10 only.

PRJ-21085,
PMTR-60933

VPN

"Decryption failed" drop logs may appear under heavy VPN load for accelerated tunnels using SHA 384 or SHA 512 Ciphers.

  • Fix is relevant for Gaia 3.10 only.

PRJ-20520,
PRJ-20521,
PRHF-14766

VPN

In a rare scenario, the FWM process unexpectedly exits when enrolling a certificate using the SCEP protocol.

PRJ-20645,
PRJ-20635,
PMTR-63280

VPN

In some scenarios, the VPND process may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-21681,
PRHF-15321

VPN

When IKEv2 and pre-shared-key is configured, VPN may fail on the second IKE SA re-key.

PRJ-20331,
PRJ-20332,
PMTR-62776

VPN

Security gateway may crash when you install policy on a MAB gateway and a policy file is corrupted.

PRJ-20273,
PRJ-20274,
PRHF-14308

VPN

In a rare scenario, a memory leak may appear when RASession_util is active.

PRJ-20866,
PRJ-20867,
PMTR-56565

VPN

In some scenarios, the VPND process keeps re-downloading the same CRL, which can cause performance issues.

PRJ-18501,
PRJ-18502,
PMTR-60820

VSX

UPDATE: Added support for VSX SecureXL tabs on CPView. Refer to sk167903.

PRJ-18187,
PRJ-18188,
PMTR-53549

VSX

VSX VSLS Cluster with 3 Members may fail to connect to Identity Collector. Refer to sk170836.

PRJ-20044

Endpoint Security

Jumbo Hotfix installation may fail on top of the Jumbo Hotfix with Takes lower than 163.

PRJ-20599,
PRJ-20600,
PRHF-14400

VoIP

VoIP RTP can cause overload on global instance (CoreXL instance 0).

PRJ-16455,
PRJ-16456,
PRHF-12691

VoIP

SIP parser may cause the wrong RTP dynamic connection to be opened. Refer to sk169373.