List of All Resolved Issues and New Features in R81.10 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator

 

Review the Important Notes for R81.10 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator section before installing a new Take.

ID

Product

Description

Take 129

Released on 13 November 2023

PRJ-50898,

PRHF-31187

Security Gateway

A double-free flaw that leads to a possible Security Gateway crash was identified. This release includes the fix to enhance system stability and security.

Take 128

Released on 6 November 2023

PRJ-49938,

PRJ-49979

Security Management

UPDATE: Removed a redundant rule-assistant.war package.

PRJ-49824,

PMTR-95347

Security Management

UPDATE: Upgraded the commons-compress-jar package from version 1.8 to version 1.22.

PRJ-49695,

PMTR-96310

Security Management

UPDATE: Upgraded the Jackson Java library from version 2.5.0 to version 2.11.3.

PRJ-49786,

PMTR-95614

Security Management

UPDATE: properJavaRDP - an SNX-embedded application for Mobile Access is now blocked and is no longer supported because of deprecated Java library dependencies.

PRJ-49891,

PMTR-95687

Security Management

UPDATE: Removed a redundant guava package.

PRJ-50264,

PRJ-49965,

PRJ-49011,

ODU-1137,

ODU-1256,

ODU-1304

Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: New features and improvements are released in Take 81, Take 85, Take 88 and Take 90 via self-updatable package. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-49108,

PMTR-94517

SmartConsole

UPDATE: Applied security related improvements to the Jetty open source library.

PRJ-50325,

PRJ-50324,

PRJ-50124,
ODU-1328,

ODU-1217

CPView

UPDATE: Added Take 68 and Take 70 of CPotelcol (OpenTelemetry Collector) Release Updates. Refer to sk180522.

PRJ-50092,

PRHF-30702

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Improved traffic classification of GTP traffic on the Security Gateway to enhance the stability.

PRJ-49493,
ODU-1170

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: Added Update 21 of Autonomous Threat Prevention Management integration Release. Refer to sk167109.

PRJ-49745,

PMTR-95099

Mobile Access

UPDATE: SNX used to connect back to Mobile Access Blade's portal FQDN by resolving its IP address locally. This method makes it sensitive to DNS poisoning attacks such as those specified by TunnelCrack. Therefore, it was modified to connect back to the Security Gateway / Cluster member IP address by default.

PRJ-49937,

PRJ-49936

Harmony Endpoint

UPDATE: Upgraded symmetricDS to the 3.14.9 version.

PRJ-45980,
ODU-1154

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Added Take 29 of Check Point Support Data Collector (CPSDC) for Scalable Platforms and Maestro Security Appliances. Refer to sk164414.

PRJ-50542,
ODU-1113

HCP

UPDATE: Added Update 14 of HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release. Refer to sk171436.

PRJ-48878,
PRHF-29542

Security Management

  • Running a Gaia API command on a Security Gateway using Management API from the Multi-Domain Security Management Server fails.

  • Running a Gaia API command on a Security Gateway using Management API from the Security Management Server fails if the Security Gateway certificate was not recreated.

PRJ-49204,
PRHF-30319

Security Management

  • When updating Inline Access Layers, Threat Exceptions, and HTTPS Inspection (TLS) rules, the "Policy Name" field in the Audit Log may be incorrect.

  • The "Where used" operation fails for users with read-only permissions.

Refer to sk181471.

PRJ-50082,

PMTR-96031

Threat Prevention

In rare scenarios, the FW1 process may stop working when at least one of these features is enabled:

  • Anti-Virus deep scan

  • Threat Emulation

  • Threat Extraction

  • Application Control

  • Data Loss Prevention

  • URL Filtering

PRJ-50190,

PMTR-96205

IPS

Policy installation may fail on Security Gateways with enabled IPS and configured Strict profile and IPv6.

PRJ-50639,
PMTR-96893

ClusterXL

ARP requests sent with VMAC from the Standby member may cause MAC flapping.

PRJ-49905,
PMTR-95831

Routing

When BGP local address is configured, BGP peer may fail to establish.

PRJ-49653,
PMTR-95476

Scalable Platforms

In a Quantum Maestro / Scalable Chassis environment, there may be a delay during TCP start negotiation for fully accelerated connections, which are distributed asymmetrically. For example, C2S distribute to member 1_1 and S2C to member 1_2.

To maintain the original behavior (prior to R81.10 Jumbo Hotfix Take 128), follow these steps before starting the Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator upgrade:

  • Force the sticky behavior in the Correction Layer in the current session:

    g_fw ctl set int ccl_force_sticky 1

  • Force the sticky behavior in the Correction Layer permanently:

    g_update_conf_file fwkern.conf ccl_force_sticky=1

Refer to sk181464.

Take 113

Released on 6 September 2023

PRJ-47121,
PMTR-92660

Anti-Spam

NEW: We have extended the grace period of Anti-Spam Blade to support you for 90 days following contract expiration to continue providing the best security value during the renewal process.

PRJ-48299,
PMTR-93298

SmartConsole

UPDATE: Added a pop-up message explaining that it is not possible to add an exception to a Global Domain policy from a local Domain when clicking "add exception" in a Global rule.

  • Requires installing SmartConsole Build 417 (or higher).

PRJ-48317,
ODU-1121

Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: New features and improvements are released in Take 81 via a self-updatable package. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-46557,
PMTR-92206

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added a new option in domains_tool, which allows to retrieve IP addresses of multiple Domains - "-md <list of domains>". Refer to sk161632.

PRJ-44243,
PMTR-87141

Mobile Access

UPDATE: Enhanced PushReport (a troubleshooting tool for Mobile Access Blade):

  • changes in the cloud service configuration,

  • stability improvement.

PRJ-46315,
PMTR-90870

ClusterXL

UPDATE: When enabling the VMAC feature, link_monitoring on the cluster members will now be configured automatically.

PRJ-47677,
PMTR-88036

VPN

UPDATE: Added SAML authentication support for Capsule Connect / Capsule VPN.

PRJ-44280,
PMTR-86206

VSX

UPDATE: In VSX, removed the redundant option to change CoreXL mode from USFW to Kernel mode.

PRJ-48339,
ODU-1081

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added Take 20 of Public Cloud CA Bundle. Refer to sk172188.

PRJ-45727,
PMTR-91551

Harmony Endpoint

UPDATE: Added new file types supported by Harmony Endpoint Threat Emulation blade.

PRJ-45771,
PMTR-90618

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Added ability to stop configuration mismatch repeated reboots for debugging purposes. The new command is " cpha_blade_config auto_reboot <on/off>".

PRJ-48196,
PMTR-91032

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Added ability to use Generic Data Centers and Dynamic Objects with Maestro cluster, not just for a separate Security Gateway.

PRJ-48404,
ODU-1113

HCP

UPDATE: Added Update 13 of HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release. Refer to sk171436.

PRJ-45988,
PRHF-28558

Security Management

Deleting a Domain that is connected to an AD Group fails.

PRJ-44472,
PRHF-27659

Security Management

Excluding a network with anti-spoofing by name on the Security Gateway using the "set simple-gateway" Management API command fails with an "Anti spoofing: excluded network object must be defined." validation error message.

PRJ-46731,
PRHF-28910

Security Management

In rare scenarios, opening the Install Policy view gets timed out, and SmartConsole unexpectedly closes. Refer to sk181397.

PRJ-46796,
PRHF-29116

Security Management

The "show-vpn-communities-star" Management API command fails for VPN communities using Diffie-Hellman groups 15-18. Refer to sk27054.

PRJ-45440,
PRHF-28361

Security Management

In rare scenarios, Global Policy Reassignment takes a long time to complete after deleting a Global IPS profile. Refer to sk180787.

PRJ-46016,
PRHF-28592

Security Management

The "show-nat-rulebase" Management API command fails when Packet mode is enabled and "match on any" is set to "false". For example, "show-nat-rulebase XXX package YYY filter-settings.search-mode packet filter-settings.packet-search-settings.match-on-any false filter ZZZ".

PRJ-47258,

PRJ-47235,
PRHF-29374,
PRHF-29423

Security Management

If the HTTPS policy contains an Identity Awareness Gateway object in the "Source"/"Destination" column, policy installation may fail when selecting more than one policy target. Refer to sk181097.

PRJ-41548,
PRHF-25551

Security Management

QoS policy cannot be installed if the policy package name contains a dot symbol.

PRJ-41244,
PRHF-25050

Security Management

When closing an application from SmartConsole without changes, a redundant revision is created.

PRJ-44987,
PRHF-28001

Security Management

A migrate export or CPUSE upgrade of a Security Management Server fails if a Rule Base contains more than 35,000 rules. Refer to sk178325 to check the recommended size of Rule Bases.

PRJ-46003,
PRHF-28590

Security Management

Changing the cluster mode via the "set simple-cluster" Management API command to "cluster-xl-ha" or "ospec-ha" returns success but has no effect on the cluster object.

PRJ-45799,
PRHF-28187

Security Management

Security Management Server import fails with the "Tried to persist object XXX with domain YYY while active domain is ZZZ" error in the upgrade report.

PRJ-41460,
PRHF-24486

Security Management

In some scenarios, an automatic Trusted Certificate Authorities (CAs) update fails.

PRJ-47011,
PRHF-29254

Security Management

The "show-objects" Management API command with an "in" clause fails if the object name contains a period. For example, "show-objects in.1 <name> in.2 <ab.c>".

PRJ-47050,
PRHF-29196

Security Management

In rare scenarios. in a Multi-Domain Security Management environment:

  • Login to the Management Server may timeout and fail.

  • Publish operation may take a long time.

PRJ-45782,
PRHF-27471

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the High Availability synchronization status shows "NGM failed to import data", and then is cleared automatically within 15 minutes.

PRJ-47046,
PRHF-29104

Security Management

In rare scenarios, after an upgrade, the Security Management Server may fail to start.

PRJ-47042,
PRHF-29223

Security Management

When using the RADIUS username for authentication, login to SmartConsole may fail.

PRJ-45034,
PRHF-27706

Security Management

Upgrade of a Security Management Server or a Multi-Domain Security Management Server with over 2000 NAT rules may take over 10 hours to complete.

  • The fix requires the upgrade to be done using a Blink image or via the Advanced Upgrade method.

PRJ-46782,
PRHF-28958

Security Management

In an environment with many Security Gateways, SmartConsole may unexpectedly close when selecting a policy package to install.

PRJ-47169,
PRHF-29222

Security Management

In rare scenarios, Global Policy reassignment fails with "IPS Update Failed On Assign".

PRJ-46699,
PRHF-24917

Security Management

Global Policy assignment fails if it is configured to assign to specific Domain policies and one of these local Domain policies is deleted.

PRJ-40589,
PRHF-85028

SmartConsole

SmartConsole may crash while checking for updates.

  • Requires installing SmartConsole Build 417 (or higher).

PRJ-47469,
PMTR-92958

CPUSE

Tasks in SmartConsole may end unexpectedly during the Jumbo/ major version upgrade operation.

PRJ-45040,
PRHF-28139

Logging

The "Low disk space" warning may be incorrectly displayed in SmartConsole.

PRJ-41167,
PRHF-25147

Logging

The "show-simple-gateway" and "set-simple-gateway" Management API commands with the "logs-settings.forward-logs-to-log-server-schedule-name" parameter fail with "generic_server_error".

PRJ-44207,
PRHF-27544

Logging

Windows Syslog messages information may be displayed in the "Description" field of the log and not parsed into the suitable fields.

PRJ-45324,
PMTR-79944

Logging

Configuring log settings to delete logs if free disk space is lower than a certain percentage may not be applied.

PRJ-39450,
SL-6793

Logging

The Logs view may show a "Failed to read record number" message.

PRJ-46840,
PRHF-29149

Logging

In SmartView, filtering logs by Media Encryption & Port Protection Blade may fail.

PRJ-44115,
PRHF-5571

Security Gateway

High CPU is consumed when there are many rules with apps in the Access Rule Base. Refer to sk181264.

PRJ-47889,
PMTR-80974

Security Gateway

When enabling Management Data Plane Separation (MDPS) in Clish, a "Failed to commit the transaction on database" error message may be displayed.

PRJ-44618,
PRHF-27190

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, the FWD process listens to high ports that are not blocked by the "auth_services_real_ports_block" implied rule. Refer to sk180505.

PRJ-44189,
PRHF-25647

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may crash due to a memory issue.

PRJ-47558,
PRHF-29583

Security Gateway

FTP connection may fail in Port mode with NAT and specific FTP clients. Refer to sk181165.

PRJ-47325,
PMTR-75350

Security Gateway

Benign files scanned by the ICAP Server may not be logged by Anti-Virus Blade.

PRJ-46377,
PMTR-84794

Security Gateway

Re-mirrored traffic may be re-ordered in the Mirror & Decrypt feature.

PRJ-45343,
PRHF-28058

Security Gateway

When two routes with similar attributes are added to different routing tables, and one is deleted, Anti-Spoofing may drop the traffic to that route.

PRJ-47602,
PRHF-29572

Internal CA

In rare scenarios, ICA certificate creation and enrollment fail.

PRJ-43727,
PMTR-89275

Threat Prevention

In some scenarios, CIFS parser is triggered when it is not needed, this leads to the Security Gateway not accelerating fully the SMB traffic.

PRJ-48191,
PRHF-29760

Threat Prevention

Anti-Virus Blade fails to parse external IoC feeds that contain specific delimiters.

PRJ-46837,
PMTR-92384

Threat Prevention

When SSH Deep Packet Inspection (SSH DPI) is enabled, the Security Gateway may have SSH connectivity issues because of an incorrect choice of Message Authentication Code (MAC) algorithm during the SSH handshake.

PRJ-44691,
PRHF-27890

Threat Prevention

In some scenarios, the Security Gateway fails to export or import IoC feeds.

PRJ-44766,
PRHF-27722

Threat Prevention

Fetching of Custom Intelligence Feeds fails when no proxy is configured on the Security Gateway.

PRJ-46117,
PMTR-91889

Threat Emulation

Multiple ifiPython3 processes may utilize the Security Gateway memory, affecting the Anti-Virus Blade performance.

PRJ-47749,
PRJ-47646

IPS

In rare scenarios, there may be a memory leak in ips_cmi_handler_match_cb_ex.

PRJ-45836,
TPP-3445

Anti-Virus

DLPU process memory consumption may be increased when SMB protocol is enabled in the Anti-Virus policy.

PRJ-47784,
PRHF-29581

Anti-Virus

A memory leak may occur in the Security Gateway when a connection is not correctly released after the inspection.

PRJ-47182,
PRHF-29248

SSL Inspection

The Security Gateway may fail to enforce certificate blacklisting.

PRJ-47203,
PRHF-29309

Mobile Access

When copying special German characters to and from the Guacamole Server, they are replaced with unreadable symbols.

PRJ-47107,
PRHF-29247

Mobile Access

It may not be possible to connect to the RDP application with SNX in Application mode. Refer to sk181155.

PRJ-45198,
PRHF-28013

ClusterXL

In a cluster/Maestro in Load Sharing mode, the Security Gateway may drop NAT traversal traffic with "fwmultik_process_f2p_cookie_inner Reason: PSL Drop: No connection".

PRJ-44275,
PRHF-27346

ClusterXL

A Standby member may initiate FTP data connection, although it should be sent from the Active member. As a result, the connection is teminated. Refer to sk180531.

PRJ-44773,
PMTR-70190

SecureXL

The "IOCTL command CPHWD_IOCTL_DOS_DENY_LIST_CLEAR was not successful" error may be printed during cpstart. Refer to sk180646.

PRJ-43639,
PMTR-89506

SecureXL

In some scenarios, incorrect MSS value calculation may lead to traffic drops and performance instability.

PRJ-47487,
PMTR-93015

Routing

When multicast traffic for an existing (S,G) entry arrives at a non-IIF interface, the entry may be deleted and re-added when the next multicast packet is released, although the entry should not be deleted.

PRJ-43248,
ROUT-2018

Routing

Traffic may be dropped when there are many OSPF routes of type 5.

PRJ-47940,
PMTR-93492

Routing

An OIF entry may be missing when multiple downstream neighbors are present on a LAN. Refer to sk181354.

PRJ-48117,
PRHF-29848

Routing

The ROUTED process may exit with a core dump when querying details of OSPF Type 5 LSA.

PRJ-47801,
PRHF-29662

Routing

When a BFD session is added or removed, disabled sessions may incorrectly come up.

PRJ-41794,
ROUT-2195

Routing

Adding or deleting a multicast group from a configured static RP environment can lead to outages in traffic.

PRJ-44956,
PMTR-90731

VPN

A potential leak in VPN tunnels in a Multi-Version Cluster.

PRJ-41391,
PMTR-86796

VPN

When working with ClusterXL in Load Sharing mode, a VPN tunnel may fail to be established.

PRJ-47492,
PRHF-28831

VPN

Potential VPN outage during policy installation.

PRJ-42939,
PRHF-25665

VPN

Policy installation may take a long time and fail with "Operation failed, install/uninstall has been improperly terminated.&CURRENTVERCMP *##MSG_IDENTIFY##".

PRJ-47837,
PRHF-29698

VSX

In a rare scenario, affinity configuration on VSX may fail.

PRJ-44300,
PMTR-90180

VSX

When adding a route using vsx_provisioning_tool and the "interface_name" option, this route cannot be removed.

PRJ-43878,
PMTR-87205

VSX

When running "vsx_fetch" from a context that is not VS0, this output is displayed: "Management rejected fetch for this module - sic name does not match. Couldn't fetch VSX configuration by IPs, trying to fetch by names."

PRJ-49350,
PRHF-30364

VSX

In some scenarios, in Maestro VSX environment with a Virtual Switch (VSW), TCP packets can be dropped as "out of state" or incorrectly dropped on the clean up rule.

PRJ-46275,
PRHF-28848

Gaia OS

When changing bond settings, the bond may be missing the global IPv6 Address.

PRJ-47773,
PRHF-28671

Gaia OS

Snapshot fails when the unpartitioned disk size is greater than 1TB. Refer to sk181485.

PRJ-41337,
PRHF-25164

Harmony Endpoint

When downloading a dynamic package from the Endpoint Security Server and using the "/createmsi" command, the operation results with a "CRITICAL ERROR: Unable to create MSI! Missing file: System32\FirewallMonitor.dll"error.

PRJ-43571,
PRHF-27125

Harmony Endpoint

After the Deploy New Endpoint push operation is successfully done, the list of target devices may change to “None”. And it is not possible to delete this push operation manually, a "Sorry, we had an API issue during request" message is printed.

PRJ-46031,
PRHF-22912

Harmony Endpoint

Because of a rare race condition, AD scanners may get stuck in the initializing state with "ERROR ajp-nio2-127.0.0.1-8009-exec-96 - Failed to enumerate scanner instances for SF-DC2.mapro.cat, scanner instance788b7398-5a79-91fb-6f68-137813a5556e (UsmDSConfigResponder)java.lang.NumberFormatException".

PRJ-47055,
EPS-51960

Harmony Endpoint

Some devices added to a Virtual Group from the SmartEndpoint Reporting tab do not receive the assigned policy.

PRJ-42633,
PRHF-26426

Harmony Endpoint

After an Endpoint Security client is uninstalled via a push operation, there is no indication in the Asset Management that the client is successfully removed (only if it is inactive for more than 30 days, then it is deleted from the Server database). Although it should be immediately shown as non-active.

PRJ-46802,
PRHF-28984

Harmony Endpoint

In rare scenarios, when making changes in SmartConsole, it gets disconnected.

PRJ-48256,
PRHF-25142

Harmony Endpoint

The default policy configured in the Infinity Portal may not be exported with the new Endpoint Security client package.

PRJ-43609,
PRHF-27033

VoIP

SIP agent implements a keep-alive mechanism against the RFC, making each message arrive with a different tag in the "From" header, which may increase the memory of the Security Gateway, and these messages may be dropped once they hit the limit defined (the "sim_max_reinvite" parameter).

PRJ-47640,
PRHF-29629

Scalable Platforms

In a Scalable Platform environment, when opening an IPS Packet Capture originated on a local member, the "Fetching in progress" error is displayed, and a "Capture file was not found on remote SGM" entry is printed in the log.

PRJ-45233,
PRHF-24217

Scalable Platforms

The "asg_dr_verifier" command shows "Status: Inconsistency found on some of the SGMs", even if the OSPF neighbors are in Full state. Refer to sk179921.

PRJ-48212,
PMTR-93744

Scalable Platforms

In rare scenarios, the CONFD process may get stuck. This may cause Maestro Orchestrator boot to hang and login to Gaia Portal to fail.

PRJ-49111

Scalable Platforms

After adding a new Security Group Member to a Security Group with the default shell /bin/gclish, the status of the new Security Group Member is "Down" with a Critical Device "image_clone" pnote.

PRJ-47865,

ACCHA-3317

Scalable Platforms

Accessing the SMO WebUI and performing configuration changes may fail with the "Error in acquiring buffer of member info (-1)" error."

Take 110

Released on 30 July 2023 and declared as Recommended on 29 August 2023

PRJ-44422,
ACCESS-458

Security Management

NEW: Added a new field to the output of "mgmt_cli show updatable-objects-repository-content" command. This field displays the object's unique name as it is saved in the updatable objects repository.

PRJ-43521,
PMTR-89420

Security Management

NEW: It is now possible to add tags to Access rules and sections. A new field "tags" is added to the existing "add/set rule & section" Management APIs .

For example:

  • mgmt_cli add access-section layer "Network" position 1 name "New Section 1" tags mytag

  • mgmt_cli add access-rule layer "Network" position 1 name "Rule 1" tags mytag

PRJ-44326,
PMTR-90221

Security Management

NEW: Added a new Management API "mgmt_cli show ha-status". It provides synchronization information for the currently active domain.

  • When running the command from the Active Domain in the local/Global Domain, it retrieves details about the synchronization status of the other standby peers and the overall synchronization status for the Domain.

  • When running the command from the system Domain, it only displays the general synchronization status, as all peers are active.

PRJ-44494,
MBS-14158

Scalable Platforms

NEW: Added support for the 25Gbps speed on Maestro Orchestrator ports.

PRJ-45678,
PRJ-45679

CloudGuard Network

NEW: CloudGuard Controller for NSX-T

  • Starting from NSX-T 4.0.0.x and higher, Manager Mode APIs are deprecated, it is recommended to use Policy Mode.

  • Import NSX-T Tags (NSgroups and VMs) is now supported.

  • Import NSX-T Virtual Machine objects is now supported.

Note: Importing Virtual Machines can be enabled only using Policy Mode APIs. When enabled, the amount of API requests toward the NSX-T manager increased.

PRJ-46242,
PMTR-86894

Security Management

UPDATE: A Security Management server/Domain Management Server can now manage up to 400 Security Gateways / Clusters, allowing concurrent policy installation on all Security Gateways / Clusters at once.

PRJ-45295,
PMTR-86221

Security Management

UPDATE: Added ability to block policy installation if this policy contradicts another policy installed on the Security Gateway. In this scenario, the "install-policy" Management API command will now fail with "Requested policy X does not match currently installed policy Y on gateway Z. To ignore this warning, set the 'ignore-warnings' flag to 'true'". Refer to sk180792.

PRJ-45490,
PRHF-28303

Security Management

UPDATE: Significant performance improvement for policy installation when using many layers (up to four times faster).

PRJ-44502,
PMTR-88484

Security Management

UPDATE: Significantly improved performance during upgrade and import for large Multi-Domain Security Management environments with many administrators (over 20 domains and over 100 global administrators).

  • Requires installing Upgrade Tools package 996000482 and higher.

PRJ-45203,

ODU-843

Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: New features and improvements are released in Take 76 via self-updatable package. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-45891,
PRHF-28332

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added a new environment variable "IMPLIED_RULES_SET_BEFORE_LAST". It defines if Multi-Portal implied rules should be matched as "before drop" or "before last". The default value is "0", set to "before drop". When the value is set to "1", implied rules will be matched as "before last". Refer to sk180808.

PRJ-44774,
PMTR-85896

Security Gateway

UPDATE: The Thread Blocker feature is now disabled by default. Refer to sk180437.

PRJ-44436,
PMTR-89908

ClusterXL

UPDATE: Improved the fullsync time after reboot in large scale environments. Refer to sk180742.

PRJ-44952,
PRHF-28082

IPS

UPDATE: Mapping of IPs to country/flag in the Logs & Monitor view > Logs is now automatically updated every day.

PRJ-35986,
PMTR-69155

SSL Inspection

UPDATE: Major performance improvement in HTTPS Inspection of TLS 1.3.

PRJ-45462,
PRJ-46431,
ODU-890,
ODU-898

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: Added Update 18 and Update 19 of Autonomous Threat Prevention Management integration Release. Refer to sk167109.

PRJ-46941,
TPP-3290

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: IPS bypass triggers will now be activated based on the average CPU load exceeding the high threshold, as opposed to the previous implementation, where a single CPU load triggered the bypass. The change will result in more effective security measures without unnecessary bypasses.

PRJ-45472,
ODU-827

CPView

UPDATE: First release of CPviewExporter Release Updates. Refer to sk180521.

PRJ-45465,
ODU-835

CPView

UPDATE: First release of CPotelcol (OpenTelemetry Collector) Release Updates. Refer to sk180522.

PRJ-46916,
PMTR-80877

VPN

UPDATE: Added a global parameter "sim_no_local_ip_check" which allows packets not destined to a local IP address to proceed to Security Association lookup in SecureXL.

PRJ-47226,
PMTR-92606

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Upgraded OpenSSL from 1.1.1t to 1.1.1u to include the latest security improvements. Refer to sk181427.

PRJ-47512,
PMTR-93037

GaiaOS

UPDATE: Added notifications about the Expert mode login on Gaia Servers. Refer to sk181230:

1) Gaia sends an audit log to the Management Server / Log Server (SmartConsole > Logs & Monitor).

2) Gaia writes a log message to the /var/log/messages file (for a local login and an SSH login).

These Gaia Clish commands are available to work with this feature:

  • To see the current state of this feature: show audit login-notifier

  • To enable this feature (this is the default): set audit login-notifier on

  • To disable this feature: set audit login-notifier off

PRJ-44761,
PRHF-27893

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Increased the size of the scheduled snapshot database binding, allowing longer paths and passwords to be defined.

PRJ-32167,
MBS-14572

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Added support for 40G SFP transceiver for SSM160 (BTI40GSRDDQSFP).

PRJ-45907,
ODU-946

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Added Take 23 of Check Point Support Data Collector (CPSDC) for Scalable Platforms and Maestro Security Appliances. Refer to sk164414.

PRJ-44907,
PMTR-89393

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Added a new log file - /var/log/pull_config_report.log. It includes the summary of the "pull_config" action when it is performed on a member to indicate the reason for pull_config pnote/failures.

PRJ-44901,
PMTR-85311

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Added a new log file to indicate the reason of member reboots if they are triggered by configuration mismatch - /var/log/configuration_reboot_info.log.

PRJ-45388,
ODU-914

HCP

UPDATE: Added Update 12 of HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release. Refer to sk171436.

PRJ-41328,
PRHF-25274

Security Management

If the Security Management Server is behind NAT, remote Management API login fails.

PRJ-43559,
PRHF-26971,
PRJ-45050,
PRHF-27847,
PRJ-42548,
PRHF-26016

Security Management

In rare scenarios, in multi-site environments, Install Policy presets fail with "Timeout during task progress" or "You have reached the maximum number of active sessions". Refer to sk180897.

PRJ-45158,
PRHF-28175

Security Management

APP_ID may not be initialized when adding a new Check Point application via API, this may cause blocked access to several websites.

PRJ-45487,
PRHF-21566

Security Management

In rare scenarios, updating or deleting a cluster fails with "Failed to save object xxxx . Server error is: Data required for operation".

PRJ-42039,
PRHF-25898

Security Management

Editing an object in SmartConsole may fail with "Server error is: Object not found (Code: x08003001D, Could not access file for write operation)".

PRJ-43568,
PRHF-27059

Security Management

After Full synchronization, SmartConsole login from a Domain Management Server to the Security Management Server that is configured as High Availability may fail.

PRJ-42422,
PRHF-26275

Security Management

In some scenarios, an upgrade may fail when a Network object Group contains more than 32000 members.

PRJ-44085,
PRHF-27440

Security Management

Login with SmartConsole to a Security Management Server may fail if using a DNS name instead of an IP address. Refer to sk180514.

PRJ-43186,
PRHF-26778

Security Management

If a Security Gateway is added to a group after configuring an installation policy preset, the policy may not be installed on that Security Gateway. Refer to sk181461.

PRJ-42552,
PRHF-26118

Security Management

After restoring a Multi-Domain Security Management Server, High Availability synchronization may fail with "The Security Management Servers contain different Hotfixes".

PRJ-45873,
PRHF-28640

Security Management

In some scenarios, Access Policy Verification fails but the name of the failed rule is not specified.

PRJ-43811,
PRHF-27187

Security Management

Login to SmartConsole with a RADIUS administrator from the SmartEvent Server may fail if this Server was upgraded. Refer to sk180584.

PRJ-42620,
PRHF-26287

Security Management

When using the "Deployment from Local Paths and URLs" option, and inserting a correct path, the client is being deployed through the Management Server and not Locally as it should be deployed.

PRJ-35494,
PRHF-21009

Security Management

The Data Center object may change the status to "inaccessible/deleted", although the Virtual Machine in Azure was not deleted.

PRJ-43916,
PMTR-83586

Security Management

In the Object Explorer window in SmartConsole, the IP address column is sorted alphabetically, although it should be sorted in numerical order.

PRJ-40128,
PRHF-24236

Security Management

When the Access Rule Base contains several hundred rules, the "set-access-rule" Management API command with the "new-position" parameter may take longer than expected or time out after 5 minutes.

PRJ-46629,
PMTR-92240

Security Management

In the Infinity Services view, the Log Sharing status may not be correct.

PRJ-44595,
PMTR-89845

Security Management

When adding/setting an access rule, setting certain fields to "Any" or "None" may fail because of case sensitivity.

PRJ-44591,
PMTR-89373

Security Management

The "show object" command fails when running it on nat-section objects. It returns a "null pointer exception" message, which occurs in calculations related to the overview objects meta-info.

PRJ-44593,
PMTR-89770

Security Management

In some scenarios, running the "delete-exception-group" Management API command fails if the exception group is automatically attached.

PRJ-43266,
PRHF-26404

Security Management

When creating several LSM objects (Security Gateways or clusters) via both Management API and SmartConsole, the LSM objects IP addresses may be duplicated.

PRJ-46131,
PMTR-71041

Security Management

A policy installation task may become stuck when an error occurs in the early installation stage, for example, when trying to install a policy on an unsupported version of Security Gateway.

PRJ-35765,
PRHF-22024

Security Management

In some scenarios, the "show-packages" Management API command may return empty results when using the "domains-to-process" flag.

PRJ-45877,
PRHF-28654

Security Management

If an empty Network Group is linked in the source or destination fields of an Access Rule, policy verification may not generate an error. Instead, it may treat the empty group as if there was an "Any" object.

PRJ-44896,
PRHF-27875

Security Management

Policy installation gets stuck if the known proxy group contains the policy target.

PRJ-46398,
PRJ-46407,
PRHF-28962

Security Management

In rare scenarios, policy installation fails with "Operation failed, install/uninstall has been improperly terminated". Refer to sk180448.

PRJ-44995,
PRHF-27895

Security Management

In rare scenarios, login to SmartConsole fails, and opening Security Gateway objects times out.

PRJ-45654,
PRHF-28407

Security Management

Packet mode search in SmartConsole may show rules that do not match the query if the query contains source, destination, and service.

PRJ-39775,
PRHF-24049

Security Management

Disabling or enabling rules may not affect the "last-modify-time" field in the output of the "show-access-rule" Management API command.

PRJ-45054,
PRHF-27948

Multi-Domain Security Management

In rare scenarios, in Multi-Domain multi-site environments, an IPS update on the Multi-Domain Security Management Server remains locked.

PRJ-43689,
PRHF-27130

Multi-Domain Security Management

Deleting the entire Domain including all its Domain Servers fails, if any of the Domain Servers is used in the Domain's policy.

PRJ-45060,
PRHF-28094

Multi-Domain Security Management

In large Multi-Domain Security Management environments, login to SmartConsole may fail while High Availability synchronization is running. Refer to sk180858.

PRJ-46087,
PRHF-28685

Multi-Domain Security Management

A scheduled Install Policy Preset may not have its next run time updated when:

  • The Multi-Domain Security Management Server was down while the preset was scheduled to run

  • There are over 50 presets defined

PRJ-46104,
PRHF-28809

Multi-Domain Security Management

In some scenarios, the "Uninstall Threat Prevention Policy" window may show "no candidates found for operation", even though there are Security Gateways that have Threat Prevention policy installed and Threat Prevention is disabled in the Security Gateway editor. Refer to sk180983.

PRJ-40738,
PRHF-24558

Multi-Domain Security Management

Deleting a Domain from SmartConsole fails after a Domain Server was removed and the Domain has no Domain Servers.

PRJ-44968,
PRHF-28002

Multi-Domain Security Management

In rare scenarios, in Multi-Domain Security Management environments with over 500K network objects, login to SmartConsole fails with "Connection timed out" or "Unable to connect to server" messages.

PRJ-45068,
PRJ-46162,
PRHF-28192,
PRHF-28143

Multi-Domain Security Management

In rare scenarios, in a Multi-Domain Security Management environment:

  • Login to the Security Management Server may fail with timeout.

  • Publish operations may take a long time.

PRJ-46509,
PRHF-28930

SmartConsole

Data Center objects may not appear as unused objects in the Object Explorer view, although they should.

PRJ-43598,
PRHF-27209

SmartConsole

Typo in the Compliance report - "OSFP" instead of "OSPF".

PRJ-41666,
PRHF-25662

Logging

In some scenarios, in the Logs & Monitor view, no results are shown when filtering updatable object names by the "dst_uo_name" field.

PRJ-39255,
PRHF-23374

Logging

In rare scenarios, many open connections on port 18196 are observed on the Multi-Domain Security Management Server or Multi-Domain Log Security Management Server.

PRJ-41594,
PRHF-25533

Logging

SmartEvent may generate false Anti-Bot / Anti-Virus related logs which do not contain any information.

PRJ-45606,
PMTR-90654

Logging

In some scenarios, in the Logs view, the "Destination" field may be missing. The issue is cosmetic only.

PRJ-46073,
PRHF-28787

Logging

After an upgrade of the Security Management Server, the "cp_log_export show" command may return the "found an ambiguous value" error in the "export_log_position" field.

PRJ-45417,
PRHF-28191

Logging

Source and destination IP addresses in SmartLog may not be shown correctly for duplicate packets of fragmented traffic.

PRJ-41281,
PRHF-14263

Logging

In large environments, after policy installation or when loading Real Time Monitor, RTMD CPU consumption may be high for several minutes and the process may exit when 4 GB of memory is reached.

PRJ-38480,
SL-6728

Logging

In specific network configurations, after installing a policy, the target IP address of the Log Server may differ from what was configured.

PRJ-46053,
PRHF-28455

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may crash while inspecting non-HTTP traffic.

PRJ-46340,
PRHF-28674

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, memory corruption occurs during packet correction requiring fragmentation, this may cause the Security Gateway crash or freeze.

PRJ-46334,
PRHF-28842

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may crash after a failure in policy installation.

PRJ-45496,
PRHF-28324

Security Gateway

On the Security Gateway with Management Data Plane Separation (MDPS) enabled:

  • when adding a RADIUS Server from WebUI, a new MDPS task with the IP address of the Server may not be added,

  • when deleting a RADIUS Server, the MDPS task may not be deleted.

PRJ-44937,
PMTR-86007

Security Gateway

When Check Point Active Streaming (CPAS) is used, and the Server's MSS is bigger than the client's MSS, packet fragmentation may occur.

PRJ-38111,
PRHF-22608

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, the Security Gateway may crash.

PRJ-45803,
PRHF-28559

Security Gateway

Resolved an issue where CPD would consume a large amount of CPU in VSX with a large number of interfaces configured (greater than 1024). Refer to sk181588.

PRJ-42530,
PRHF-25233

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, while processing H323 traffic, the Security Gateway may unexpectedly restart.

PRJ-44855,
PRHF-27465

Security Gateway

Web Security parsing error "illegal header format detected: Missing quotation mark" of content-disposition header - that contains a filename* parameter or an unquoted parameter.

PRJ-45483,
PRHF-27892

Security Gateway

Incorrect bonds may be shown in the Data Plane when using MDPS with the "show bonding groups" command.

PRJ-47123,
PRHF-29292

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, after an upgrade, the FWD process may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-43856,
PMTR-83014

Security Gateway

The FWK process may unexpectedly exit with a core dump file when removing an IPv6 interface on VSX.

PRJ-44407,
PMTR-90258

Security Gateway

Global tables (ghtab) may not be synchronized between members, this can lead to instability of traffic.

PRJ-47148,
PMTR-92710

Security Gateway

Enlarging MTU may cause even small packets to be allocated as Jumbo frames. This will impact the performance of SNDs CPUs.

PRJ-46113,
PRHF-28489

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, the Security Gateway may drop the traffic after "Rulebase Internal Error" which occurs during policy installation.

PRJ-33812,
PRHF-12636

Security Gateway

The FWK process may unexpectedly exit while processing the mail flow and generate a core dump.

PRJ-45955,
PMTR-83450

Security Gateway

When HTTPS Inspection is enabled, website loading in Firefox fails or is slow, after a few seconds, the "NS_ERROR_ABORT" error appears in the network tab of Firefox. Refer to sk180873.

PRJ-41967,
PRHF-25829

Security Gateway

When adding another loopback interface in an MDPS environment, it is shown in MPLANE and not in DPLANE as expected.

PRJ-44311,
PRHF-27439

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, modifying the "fwmultik_temp_conns_enabled" parameter on-the-fly leads to the Security Gateway crash.

PRJ-46687,
PMTR-91240

Security Gateway

When adding a new connection, the "Smart Connection Reuse" feature may cause errors in fwk.elg and connection drops.

PRJ-46138,
PRHF-28806

Security Gateway

The "g_tcpdump -mcap" command may not merge traffic capture outputs. Refer to sk181032.

PRJ-45478,
PRHF-28350

Security Gateway

Security Gateway may crash when running kernel debugs of the "UP" module.

PRJ-44251,
PRHF-27426

Security Gateway

When setting "cphwd_enable_ecmp = 1" (to route by the source and destination IP address), the Security Gateway may route the traffic to the wrong MAC.

PRJ-44500,
PRHF-27844

Security Gateway

In a Maestro environment where members are VSXs, connection over SSH or RDP from a host behind Maestro to a peer may be dropped.

PRJ-44977,
PRHF-27997

Security Gateway

Latency in loading websites when using Security Gateway as a Proxy with HTTPS Inspection enabled. Refer to sk180673.

PRJ-45186,
PMTR-90969

Security Gateway

Traffic stops working after a Security Gateway Member recovers from a failure. Refer to sk180705.

PRJ-42358,
PMTR-88174

Security Gateway

Latency in connection caused by a packet flow change from F2V to F2F.

PRJ-45397,
PRHF-28037

Security Gateway

Login to Mobile Access Portal when authenticating with SAML may fail with an "Error while processing the request" message. Refer to sk180801.

PRJ-45449,
PRHF-28277

Security Gateway

When the Security Gateway handles specific HTTP requests, memory failure may occur. CPView registers SMEM failure.

PRJ-44752,
PRHF-27707

Security Gateway

Policy installation may fail with "Error 2000240" because of an IPv6 flow issue.

PRJ-41776,
PRHF-25573

Threat Prevention

IoC feed may not load, and the "Feed status cybercrime-tracker_hash_list :: engine memory allocation error. Feed log External IoC - External Indicators processing failed" error is displayed in CLI.

PRJ-42147,
PRHF-26013

Threat Prevention

Fetching custom intelligence feeds via CLI may fail because of SSL certificate issues.

PRJ-44570,
PRHF-27749

Threat Prevention

After an upgrade, adding an IoC feed with IP range indicator type may fail with "Feed format problem. Bad or Empty Feed ".

PRJ-44151,
PMTR-89916

Threat Prevention

In a rare scenario, policy installation may fail because of IoC observables overrides.

PRJ-44551,

PRHF-27765

Threat Prevention

In some scenarios, the FWD process unexpectedly exits, and the Security Group Members state flaps between Active and Down during an Anti-Bot Blade update.

PRJ-45562,
PRHF-21271

Threat Prevention

In some scenarios, Anti-Virus and Anti-Bot updates on Maestro Security Group Members may fail.

PRJ-44200,

PMTR-89130

Threat Prevention

When IPS Blade is enabled, the Security Gateway may crash.

PRJ-39347,
PRHF-23473

Identity Awareness

There may be connectivity issues and high CPU spikes on PDP when installing policy.

PRJ-44316,
PRHF-27270

Content Awareness

When Content Awareness Blade is enabled, there is a limitation of the file size (sk118516). However, when the source object of the Content Awareness rule does not match the current connection, the limitation is not applied on this connection.

PRJ-45428,
PRHF-28304

Application Control

Some TLS1.3 applications without SNI do not match the rules.

PRJ-47064,
PMTR-92599

Application Control

When the "Categorize HTTPS Websites" option is enabled and the global parameter "appi_urlf_ssl_cn_use_sni_without_validation" is set to true, a memory leak may occur.

PRJ-29401,
PRHF-15953

Anti-Virus

The RAD process CPU utilization may be high when Anti-Virus engine processes many reverse DNS queries.

PRJ-46605,
PRHF-28851

Anti-Virus

The DLPU process may stop working, creating a User Space core dump file on the Security Gateway. Refer to sk181026.

PRJ-44664,
PMTR-90550

Anti-Virus

Anti-Virus Blade may bypass inspection of URLs with sub-domain portion.

PRJ-46279,
PRHF-28749

Anti-Virus

Importing a custom intelligence feed containing IP ranges may fail.

PRJ-47264,
PMTR-91800

SSL Inspection

The fwk.elg file may be flooded with the "mux_hold_opq_free: App has no hold params free function" messages for the TLS_PARSER app because of a memory leak.

PRJ-45657,
PRHF-28404

SSL Inspection

In a VSX environment, the WSTLSD process run by Virtual Systems may ignore proxy configuration on VS0.

PRJ-45099

Mobile Access

SSL Network Extender (SNX) may randomly disconnect after an upgrade. Refer to sk173765.

PRJ-46402,
PRHF-28925

Mobile Access

Sending emails with attachments via Capsule Workspace may fail on iOS.

PRJ-45194,
PRHF-28182

Mobile Access

In rare scenarios, IOS users are unable to send emails using Capsule Workspace business mail.

PRJ-46505,
PRHF-28936

ClusterXL

Some IPv6 connections randomly stop passing through ClusterXL in High Availability mode. Refer to sk180969.

PRJ-41307,
PRHF-25160

ClusterXL

When interfaces disconnect/connect on both members at the same time, it may cause a failover.

PRJ-42771,
MBS-15783

ClusterXL

Asymmetric UDP traffic may be dropped with "First Packet isn´t Syn".

PRJ-45349,

PRHF-28275

ClusterXL

After an upgrade, cluster members may frequently crash, causing instability in the environment.

PRJ-44455,
PRHF-27561

ClusterXL

After several failovers in a cluster, connections may fail to synchronize. This can cause a timeout and the "first packet isn't syn" drops.

PRJ-44352,
PMTR-91017

ClusterXL

A VRRP cluster member may be stuck in boot after a cluster upgrade.

PRJ-45300,
PRHF-27633

SecureXL

When running tcpdump on the Multi-Domain Security Server, an "error /bin/cp-tcpdump.sh: line 11: sxlmode: command not found" message is shown. The issue is cosmetic only.

PRJ-44874,
PRHF-27540

SecureXL

Traffic may be dropped and the FWACCEL core file is generated.

PRJ-45833,
PMTR-82733

Routing

The ROUTED daemon may unexpectedly exit because of multi-threading issues.

PRJ-41963,
MBS-16158

Routing

Routing log messages generated when Standby cluster members reconnect to members in Master state are not clear.

PRJ-46358,
PMTR-73657

Routing

Routes marked as "stale" may be redistributed via BGP during graceful restart.

PRJ-45260,
PMTR-81608

Routing

When configuring OSPFv2 graceful restart on ClusterXL, the cluster may get stuck in EXSTART / 2WAY state.

PRJ-46095,
ROUT-1702

Routing

BGP state gets stuck in Idle state when using BGP ping to one of the peers.

PRJ-46132,
ROUT-2838

Routing

When two interfaces with the same local address are configured, BGP may use an incorrect interface to reach a peer.

PRJ-46128,
ROUT-2801

Routing

The ROUTED daemon may unexpectedly exit when aggregating routes with long AS paths.

PRJ-41960,
MBS-16159

Routing

In some scenarios, a Security Group Member failover can trigger routes to be lost on other members in the Security Group.

PRJ-41798,
PMTR-87520

Routing

Configuring OSPFv2 Graceful Restart and passive OSPF interfaces at the same time can cause graceful restart failures.

PRJ-44924,
PMTR-90799

Routing

When PIM and state refresh are enabled, the state refresh message may not be sent automatically after a failback in ClusterXL HA Primary Up mode.

PRJ-45379,
PRHF-26701

Routing

A VRRP/VRRP6 interface may go into Master/Master state.

PRJ-44705,
PRHF-27225

Routing

Multicast receivers send IGMP membership reports, but the outbound interfaces are missing from the routing table.

PRJ-44709,
PRHF-27240

Routing

An IGMP group with an expiration time of 7101 weeks should be deleted when it reaches 0 seconds, but instead, it may remain at 7101 weeks until a membership report is sent, then it resets to the interval of that interface.

PRJ-45468,

PRHF-28353

VPN

StrongSWAN Remote Access authentication fails when the LDAP lookup type is not the default method.

PRJ-44829,
PRHF-27569,

PRJ-44991,
PRHF-28061,

PRJ-46302,

PRHF-28849

VPN

  • Remote Access clients are unable to connect using Machine Certificate Authentication when the certificate has OCSP and CRL but the gateway is unable to resolve properly the OCSP or to get a proper answer from the OCSP server. Refer to sk179434.

  • OCSP is disabled on the user's IIS Server, but the Security Gateway does not fall back to the CRL method. Refer to sk179434.

  • Security Gateway sends defaultCert to the third party instead of an OCSP certificate. An unexpected OCSP response may cause a VPN gateway to stop using its certificate until the next policy installation. Refer to sk180683.

PRJ-44218,
PRHF-27548

VPN

The "vpn/ike debug ikeon/ikefail" commands may fail when used with the "-s" flag.

PRJ-45919,
PRHF-28589

VPN

The FWM process may unexpectedly exit at startup because of an incorrect VPN key initiation.

PRJ-44089,
PRHF-27224

VSX

Values provided by the VSX OID tree: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2620.1.16.22.5.1 may be incorrect.

PRJ-45401,
PRHF-28365

VSX

Warp interfaces may appear in VS0 and disrupt connectivity when editing a Virtual Switch with a bond and VLANs.

PRJ-41970,
PRHF-25866

VSX

Increasing the MTU value of a bonded tagged interface may not be possible. Refer to sk179984.

PRJ-44745,
PMTR-90616

VSX

Virtual System's interfaces may be missing when running the Clish command "show/save configuration".

PRJ-45005,
PRHF-28080

VSX

A VSX Security Gateway may crash while attempting to collect statistics after running the "cpstop" command.

PRJ-45145,
PRHF-28154

VSX

Some packets may disappear when using the i40e driver, and VMAC is configured on the cluster.

PRJ-45863,
PMTR-91668

Gaia OS

Gaia backup may fail, leaving a temporary partition behind. Any new attempt to create a new backup returns an error.

PRJ-29906,
PMTR-72562

Gaia OS

It may be not possible to enter a snapshot description with more than one word.

PRJ-33093,
PMTR-72381

Gaia OS

In some scenarios, the output of the "show configuration"/"snapshot-scheduled" command may contain corrupted text.

PRJ-28434,
PRHF-18469

Gaia OS

Backup on Gaia machine with Threat Emulation Blade enabled fails with "Cannot complete the backup process: not enough space". But the solution of sk166833 does not resolve the issue in a VSX environment.

PRJ-42779,
PRHF-26416

Gaia OS

Scheduled SCP snapshots to a Windows Server may fail with the "Failed to connect to remote server. Please validate connection".

PRJ-41909,
PRHF-25737

Gaia OS

Gaia WebUI logs are printed with "info" severity.

PRJ-44370,
PRHF-27627

Gaia OS

SNMP OIDs for ISP Redundancy status are not refreshed when the ISP link changes the status.

PRJ-46285,
EPS-51347

Harmony Endpoint

Non-domain macOS devices are created as a new endpoint on the Endpoint Management when re-installing the device.

PRJ-46947,
PRHF-29014

Harmony Endpoint

KAV updater on the Server may fail to receive updates when proxy is used.

PRJ-45540,
PRHF-27987

CloudGuard Network

AWS Data Center mapping fails when an interface subnet is missing from the list of subnets.

PRJ-32399,
PRHF-19493

VoIP

After an upgrade, VoIP and SIP / H323 traffic may be dropped in the VPN tunnel. Refer to sk179651.

PRJ-46475,
PMTR-90803

VoIP

SIP traffic may be dropped and "kiss_htab_bl_infra_slink: failed "earlynat_sport_ghtab_bl":3 reason: KISS_HTAB_BL_SLINK_LIMIT_REACHED" is printed in the fwk.elg file.

PRJ-42263,
ACCHA-2021

Scalable Platforms

Excessive "cphwd_get_device_accelerated_ifs: too many interfaces (32,XXX)" messages may log to $FWDIR/log/fwk.elg. Refer to sk180439.

PRJ-42617,
PMTR-76837

Scalable Platforms

The FW process may unexpectedly exit, producing a core dump file.

PRJ-32730,
PMTR-72467

Scalable Platforms

When there is a connectivity issue in the cluster, OSPF packets may be sent with delays and cause an outage.

PRJ-44528,
PMTR-78822

Scalable Platforms

License is not copied from SMO to all other members if other members are in Down state.

PRJ-36345,
PMTR-78466

Scalable Platforms

Redundant reboot occurs after installing R81/R81.10 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator for the first time after a major version installation/upgrade. Refer to sk177765.

PRJ-44587,
PRJ-44548

Scalable Platforms

The "orch_info" command may freeze, when running it on Maestro Orchestrator.

PRJ-41249,
PMTR-70296

Scalable Platforms

Trying to power off the MHO in CLI may lead to a reboot.

PRJ-45480,
PMTR-91555

Scalable Platforms

Querying the HW status via SNMP (OIDs .1.3.6.1.4.1.2620.1.6.7.*) or via the "cpstat os -f sensors" command may fail on Maestro Orchestrator.

PRJ-45301,
PRHF-28238

Scalable Platforms

In rare scenarios, the Single Management Object (SMO) may go to Down state after clicking a packet capture link in the IPS log in SmartConsole.

PRJ-42785,
PMTR-82764

Scalable Platforms

Members may stay in Down state after reboot/Jumbo Hotfix installation with pull_config pnote when pulling registry from SMO: "Pull registry failed" error in the $FWDIR/log/Blade_config log file.

PRJ-43815,
PMTR-89604

Scalable Platforms

CPUSE may suggest to install Maestro incompatible packages.

PRJ-46968

Scalable Platforms

On Maestro, when MDPS (Management Data Plane Separation) is enabled, and the license corresponds to an IP address different from the management interface's IP address (such as the sync IP), policy installation may fail because of a license mismatch.

PRJ-47053,
PMTR-92636

Scalable Platforms

MHO reports logs may not be rotated.

PRJ-44287,
PMTR-88429

Scalable Platforms

The "set/show trace" command may fail in gClish.

PRJ-45885,
PMTR-90935

Scalable Platforms

In VSLS mode, SNMP traffic may incorrectly be forwarded to SMO instead of DR manager of the corresponding Virtual System.

PRJ-46645,
PRHF-28694

Carrier Security

Incorrect parsing of GTP-U traffic may cause anti-spoofing drops.

PRJ-43224,
CST-316

Carrier Security

Security Gateway drops GTP Echo Response traffic with the reason "Wrong Destination Port". See sk181507.

PRJ-43220,
CST-312

Carrier Security

Security Gateway drops GTP traffic with the reason "Static IP not allowed". See sk181506.

PRJ-46676,
PRJ-46682,
PRHF-29045,
PRHF-28963,

PRJ-46679,
PRHF-28973

Carrier Security

After an upgrade, GTP traffic and memory issues may occur.

PRJ-46673,
PRHF-28770

Carrier Security

Packet corruption, leading to traffic and performance issues.

PRJ-44602,
PMTR-86732

Carrier Security

Stack buffer overflow may occur in the FWGTP process.

Take 109

Released on 17 July 2023 and declared as Recommended on 23 July 2023

PRJ-47745

Scalable Platforms

Uninstalling Jumbo Hotfix Take 106/107 on Maestro Orchestrator (MHO) may cause an outage.

Take 107

Released on 28 June 2023

PRJ-47102,
PRHF-29329

Security Management

Policy installation may fail with "Target is not defined in the database" error when the target name has many underscore or dash characters.

Take 106

Released on 8 June 2023

PRJ-45900,
MBS-17283

Scalable Platforms

NEW: Added support for LightSpeed acceleration on Scalable Platforms appliances MLS-200, MLS-400 and QLS-250 and QLS-450.

PRJ-40966,
PMTR-85571

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Switching between User/Kernel mode on Scalable Platforms can now be done using "cpconfig" . Reboot of the Security Group members is performed after the confirmation.

PRJ-46857

Multi-Domain Security Management

After an upgrade to R81.10 Take 95, policy installation from a Domain Security Management Server on R81.20 Security Gateways may fail with "Policy installation is not supported for the target". Refer to sk181048.

PRJ-45592,
PRHF-28286

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, in SmartConsole, when clicking the picker to add Security Gateway to a Threat Prevention policy "Install On" column, no Security Gateway objects appear. Refer to sk180964.

PRJ-44451,
PRHF-27276

SmartConsole

In rare scenarios, in Multi-Domain Security Management environments with many administrators that have custom permissions, SmartConsole is slow, and operations take longer than usual. Refer to sk180681.

PRJ-43171

CPUSE

When working in a Scalable Platforms environment, a member may get in a bootloop. The issue occurs after the consequent upgrade of this member to R81.10, Deployment Agent (DA) update and enabling image auto cloning.

PRJ-46294,
PRHF-28702

VPN

Users that were moved from one AD group to another group still are shown in both access role groups when running the "pdp monitor" command. Refer to sk181429.

PRJ-45789,
PRJ-42015

CloudGuard Network

Deleting one hundred IP addresses or more from the Security Gateway at once may fail, resulting in recurrent deletion retries.

PRJ-45975,
PRHF-28696

CloudGuard Network

After an upgrade to Take 75, importing Azure Private Endpoints, Application Security Groups or AWS Load balancer tags may fail.

PRJ-46854,
PRJ-46859

Scalable Platforms

User Space Mode (UPPAK) is not supported on Maestro Security Gateways with enabled Management Data Plane Separation (MDPS).

Take 95

Released on 13 April 2023 and declared as Recommended on 15 May 2023

PRJ-42693,
PMTR-88560

Security Management

NEW: Added ability to run the "verify-policy" Management API command on a private session with unpublished changes.

PRJ-45365,
PMTR-90420

Security Management

NEW:

  • Added support for 1595 Slim Ruggedized appliances.

  • Added support for 1535 / 1555, 1575 / 1595 Quantum Spark Pro appliances.

PRJ-44576,
PMTR-90463

Internal CA

NEW: Previously, the Internal CA certificate required manual renewal process. Now it will be automatically renewed one year before its expiration date.

PRJ-44226,
PMTR-89589

Compliance

NEW: Compliance Blade is enhanced with 5 new Firewall Best Practices:

  • FW174 - Check that there are no Access Control rules that contain "Any" in the "Source" column and contain "Accept" or "Ask" in the "Action" column.

  • FW175 - Check that Access Control rules do not contain "Any" in "Destination", and "Accept" or "Ask" in "Action".

  • FW176 - Check that Access Control rules do not contain "Any" in "Services and Applications", and "Accept" or "Ask" in "Action".

  • FW177 - Check that there are no temporary Access Control rules (based on the "Name" column).

  • FW178 - Check that there are no temporary Access Control rules (based on the "Comments" column).

PRJ-42453,
PMTR-77024

HCP

NEW: HCP report is now available in WebUI. To access it, use the link: https://<Security Gateway IP address>/hcp.

PRJ-41010,
PRHF-24971

Security Management

UPDATE: Defining GUI Clients on the Log Server is now blocked. Defining GUI Clients is allowed only from the Security Management Server in Active mode.

PRJ-41201,
PRHF-24563

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added ability to force GNAT Port randomization. It is controlled by kernel parameter (off by default).

  • To activate it, GNAT should be enabled. Also, in the fwkern.conf file, run "set fwx_force_random_nat_port_alloc=1",

  • To disable, run "set fwx_force_random_nat_port_alloc=0".

PRJ-43605,

PRHF-22566

SecureXL

UPDATE: Added a new kernel parameter allowing to control the size of fragments table in SecureXL. To use it, set the kernel parameter "sim_frag_limit_override" with the new value and install policy. This can prevent fragment drops when having multiple instances in the Firewall.

PRJ-44610,
PMTR-90504

Threat Emulation

UPDATE: FakeServer will now listen for packets coming from the Virtual Machine during Threat Emulation to port 18443 instead of port 8443.

PRJ-43969,
PRHF-27306

VPN

UPDATE: When the VTI MTU is different from the physical MTU, the physical MTU is used for sending packets by default.

  • To modify the default behavior (the change does not survive reboot), run the CLI command "fw ctl set int sim_vpn_use_physical_mtu 0 -a". This allows using configured VTI MTU as the default.

  • To make the change permanently, open the $PPKDIR/conf/simkern.conf file for editing and add the entry "sim_vpn_use_physical_mtu=0".

Refer to sk98074.

PRJ-42404,
PMTR-87600

VSX

UPDATE: Added more logs related to Pushing VSX Configuration.

  • On the Security Gateway side: in the last_vsx_push_configuration.elg. The log file will now be circular.

  • On the Security Management side: in the vsx_util log. Also, commands are added to the name of log files (for example, vsx_util_reconfigure_xxxxx_xx_xx.elg).

  • VSX Provisioning tool is now logged in the vpt_history.elg.

.

PRJ-43675,
PRHF-27227

Harmony Endpoint

UPDATE: Linux installations are now automatically added to "All Linux Desktops Virtual Group" in Harmony Endpoint. Refer to sk180430.

PRJ-45266,
PMTR-91124

GaiaOS

UPDATE: Added a defense mechanism against the hostname command injection in the Gaia Portal (CVE-2023-28130). Refer to sk181311.

PRJ-44639,
PMTR-90527

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Upgraded OpenSSL from 1.1.1n to 1.1.1t to include the latest security improvements.

PRJ-43925,
PRHF-27357

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added support for sending Data Center updates from the CloudGuard Controller to the main IP address of Active member on the Management Plane instead of the cluster VIP address on the Data Plane. Refer to the "updateClusterMemberAndNotVip" section in CloudGuard Controller R81.10 Administration Guide > Configuration Parameters. This change prevents scenarios when CloudGuard Controller fails to connect to Cluster with MDPS enabled (sk180981).

PRJ-44355,
PRJ-44354

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added support for Data Centers in AWS ap-southeast-4 Melbourne region.

PRJ-40857,

MBS-14161

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Added Management Data Plane Separation (MDPS) support for Maestro Orchestrator and Chassis scalable platforms.

PRJ-45755,

PMTR-91592

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Enhanced the mechanism of Maestro Gateway leaving a Security Group.

PRJ-44629,

PMTR-90519

Security Management

There may be many duplicates of OCSP response in the $CPDIR/tmp/curl_crl_ocsp folder.

PRJ-44460,
PRHF-27327

Security Management

In some scenarios, the "run-script" Management API command may fail with "Null Pointer Exception" when using root user permissions.

PRJ-39758,
PRHF-24058

Security Management

In some scenarios, exact search in the Object Explorer may not return the expected results.

PRJ-38358,
PRHF-23108

Security Management

After creating a new administrator in SmartConsole, the Administrators view may fail to load with "Error retrieving results".

PRJ-42060,
PRHF-25730

Security Management

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

PRJ-44025,
PRHF-27405

Security Management

When using Custom Application/Site Group objects in an Access policy, policy installation may fail with an "Internal error" message.

PRJ-43962,
PRHF-27308

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the Security Gateway accepts all IP addresses as approved "gui_clients", although it was provided with a list of specific trusted IP addresses.

PRJ-42084,
PRHF-25916

CPView

A typo in "Dropped fragmentation violation" under CPView > Advanced > SecureXL > Drops.

PRJ-43472

CPUSE

In some scenarios, the Task Progress bar is missing from SmartConsole during Jumbo Hotfix installation.

PRJ-44337,
PMTR-89535

CPView

The Network-per-CPU tab under CPVIEW > Advanced > SecureXL does not show traffic distribution for all CPUs. Refer to sk180540.

PRJ-43393,
PRHF-26905

Logging

When working with Multi-Domain Security Management, Virtual Systems (VS's) may be unable to send logs to the management because the Log Server constantly disconnects.

PRJ-44095,
PRHF-27460

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, the FWD process may unexpectedly exit and cause a short outage related to a BGP failure.

PRJ-36112,
PRHF-21819

Security Gateway

When on Microsoft Active Directory the "mobile" attribute value in DynamicID authentication preferred method is changed to an email address and then back to a phone number, OTP may still be sent to the email.

PRJ-44920,
PRHF-27936

Security Gateway

After an upgrade to Take 79, memory usage may increase on all Security Gateway Modules, and the "pkt_handle_f2v_if_needed: dropping packet (failed to send notification)" error is printed in logs.

PRJ-44232,
PRHF-27318

Security Gateway

After policy installation, a VSX High Availability Cluster member may have a failover and generate a vmcore.

PRJ-42296,
PRHF-26094

Security Gateway

When MDPS is configured, mdps_tun interface is shown when running the "cpstat ha -f all" command.

PRJ-42707,
PRHF-26247

Security Gateway

DNS parser incorrectly handles additional records, which results in appearing additional DNS IP addresses in the FQDn objects list.

PRJ-43011,
PRHF-26600

Security Gateway

When adding a new RADIUS Server in Gaia Portal, its IP address is automatically added to MDPS tasks, but when deleting this Server, the MDPS task is not deleted.

PRJ-43886,
PRHF-26861

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, the FWD process is stuck during policy installation.

PRJ-43839,
PRHF-27097

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may receive duplicated traffic (such as non-IP protocol connections) for IPS inspection. This can trigger high CPU usage and result in failures to connect over SSH or policy installation.

PRJ-40878,
PMTR-85619

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, policy installation fails with "Segmentation fault" and "Error compiling IPv4 flavor" messages.

PRJ-41564,
PRJ-41202

Security Gateway

SAML authentication fails with the "HTTP 500" error when MDPS is enabled on the Security Gateways. Refer to sk179625.

PRJ-44081,
PRHF-26620

Security Gateway

In an Active/Standby cluster, when downloading a file using FTP protocol, the FWK process may unexpectedly exit, and a core dump file is generated.

PRJ-41878,
PMTR-87372

Security Gateway

On supported Open Servers (sk167052), after changing the Firewall mode from Kernel Space (KSFW) to User Space (USFW) and reboot, the Security Gateway continues to boot in the Kernel Space mode.

PRJ-43533,
PRHF-26097

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may crash because of a race condition that occurs during interface change while interface statistic is calculated.

PRJ-40472,
PMTR-84923

Threat Prevention

If SSH Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is enabled and NAT is configured on the Security Gateway, SSH connectivity from the Internet may not be possible.

PRJ-41901,
PRHF-25811

Threat Prevention

IoC feed may not load because of a parsing issue with the IP address range indicator.

PRJ-44222,
PRHF-27358

Threat Prevention

In a Quantum Maestro environment, adding an IoC feed from the command line may fail with a "Can not load indicators feed without AV & AB Blades enabled, please enable AV & AB and try again" message, although Anti-Virus and Anti-Bot Blades are enabled.

PRJ-42344,
PRHF-26221

Identity Awareness

During subsequent policy installations (with an interval of at least 11 minutes between them), the Identity Awareness Gateway configured as an Identity Broker Subscriber revoked all Identities it learned from the Identity Awareness Gateway configured as its Identity Broker Publisher. Refer to sk180659.

PRJ-42933,
PMTR-88806

Identity Awareness

The PDPD process may cause CPU spikes during cluster failover.

PRJ-43747,
PRHF-27158

Identity Awareness

The output of the "pdp monitor cv_le <agent-version>" command may be incorrect.

PRJ-33065,
PRHF-20425

Identity Awareness

In a rare scenario, a wrong access role may be assigned to a user.

PRJ-43503,
PRHF-26475

Application Control

Policy installation may fail with an "Error 0-200184" message because of memory allocation issues.

PRJ-44383,
PRHF-27645

Application Control

A buffer overflow may occur and cause the FWD process to exit. This leads to the Security Group Members in a Maestro environment change from Active to Down state and creates instability.

PRJ-43975,
PRHF-27284

URL Filtering

When applying the "appi_urlf_ssl_cn_use_sni_without_validation" kernel parameter, only the first notified application may be considered for Rule Base matching, and the rest of the apps are not detected.

PRJ-42714,
PRHF-26557

IPS

In a rare scenario, the Security Gateway may crash during an IPS package update.

PRJ-44180,
PMTR-89863

IPS

In some scenarios, the FWK process may unexpectedly exit, while Threat Prevention Blades inspect HTTP traffic.

PRJ-43583,
PRHF-27076

DLP

A memory leak may occur in the DLPU process.

PRJ-44009,
PMTR-89738

Anti-Virus

The fwk.elg file may be flooded with the "match_cb for CMI APP 11 - CI AV failed on context 144, executing context 366 and adding the app to apps in exception" messages because of improper parsing of HTTP headers by Anti-Virus Blade.

PRJ-44291,
PRHF-27598

Mobile Access

Some web applications which use PT or UT link translation methods may have issues after a browser upgrade.

PRJ-41413,
PRHF-25371

Mobile Access

Access to a web application that uses WebSocket protocol may not be possible.

PRJ-44131,
PMTR-89935

SecureXL

IPv6 template is not created when the connection is NATed.

PRJ-42781,
MBS-16193

SecureXL

After installing R81.10 Jumbo Hotfix Take 61 and higher, running the "tcpdump" command fails with the "/bin/cp-tcpdump.sh: line 14: /sbin/tcpdump: No such file or directory" error. Refer to sk180737.

PRJ-44677,
PRHF-27803

SecureXL

After an upgrade, packets passing through a Remote Access VPN tunnel in a VSX environment may be silently dropped.

PRJ-43983,
PMTR-89372

SecureXL

In a rare scenario, a CPAQ message sent during policy push does not have critical and can be dropped when the Security Gateway is busy.

PRJ-43922,
ROUT-2460

Routing

Failover may take longer than expected and traffic does not pass for several seconds because dynamic routes are lost.

PRJ-44940,
PRHF-23766

Routing

After an update, multicast traffic may be dropped.

PRJ-43410,
PRHF-6347

Routing

The ROUTED process may repeatedly exit when using PIM in Sparse mode (SM).

PRJ-44372,
PMTR-88972

Routing

OSPF routes may not be redistributed after reboot.

PRJ-41331,
PRHF-25024

Routing

The ROUTED daemon may unexpectedly exit and generate core dumps after OSPF neighborship was established, but did not advertise routes. Lost routing causes the network to be down.

PRJ-44259,
PRHF-27407

Routing

The ROUTED daemon may unexpectedly exit when using PIM and source IP address is set "0.0.0.0".

PRJ-44688,
ROUT-2353

Routing

Cluster member may stop sending multicast PIM traffic after failover or a reboot. Refer to sk180669.

PRJ-43827,
PRHF-27339

VPN

In a Site to Site VPN, when one of the sites is a cluster in Load Sharing mode, it can cause incorrect destination member calculation for asymmetric connection, and the traffic might be dropped. Refer to sk180855.

PRJ-44285,
PRHF-16890

VPN

VPN endpoint users fail to login with ECDSA certificate.

PRJ-43386,
PRHF-27010

VPN

After an upgrade, an incorrect IPSec users counter may be displayed in SmartView Monitor or when running the "cpstat vpn -f ipsec" command for a cluster. The issue is cosmetic only.

PRJ-40284,
PRHF-24166,

PRJ-43713,
PRHF-27256

PRJ-42371,
PRHF-26116

VPN

  • NAT-T traffic may stop matching the implied rule after policy installation and is dropped with "IKE_NAT_TRAVERSAL Traffic Dropped from x.x.x.x to y.y.y.y" message in SmartLog.

  • VPND and IKED stability issues occur when loading newly created LDAP group objects.

Refer to sk180530.

PRJ-43550,
SDWANGW-1205

VPN

VPN stability issues.

PRJ-43195,
PRHF-26797

VPN

TCP traffic on port 34500 may be encrypted by VPN, although it should not.

PRJ-40913,
PRHF-24641

VPN

The "failed to terminate session" error is displayed when using RAsession_util to terminate Endpoint client.

PRJ-44667,
PMTR-86522

VPN

When running the "vpn tu tlist" on cluster Standby members, old IKEv2 SAs may be printed in the output.

PRJ-44122,
PMTR-88803

VSX

Changing the main IP address of a Virtual Router may cause the FWM process to exit.

PRJ-40034,
PRHF-24249

Gaia OS

When running the "ifconfig -a" command on a Virtual System (VS) with more than 250 interfaces, the "/bin/cp-ifconfig.sh: line 179: /bin/echo: Argument list too long" error is printed.

PRJ-44238,
PRHF-27526

Gaia OS

The System Backup page in the Cloning Group view may be empty, although a scheduled backup was added.

PRJ-42220,
PRHF-25947

Gaia OS

Incorrect logs are printed in the /var/log/httpd2_error_log file when logging into the WebUI.

PRJ-43986,
PRHF-27222

Gaia OS

The "lldpneighbors" Clish command may have a corrupted output.

PRJ-43563,
PRHF-27096

Gaia OS

When restoring a backup with VSX objects, the objects database may not be restored on the newly installed Security Management Server.

PRJ-44347,
PRHF-26820

CloudGuard Network

The "Logical Volume duplicate fail" error is displayed when increasing the lv_current partition with lvm_manager on Azure. Refer to sk180381.

PRJ-43397,
PMTR-80399

CloudGuard Network

VPN Cluster stability issue when the peer is an Azure Security Gateway.

PRJ-43577,
PMTR-89444

CloudGuard Network

When enabling debug mode with the "$MDS_FWDIR/scripts/cpm_debug.sh -c ObjectCrudSvcImpl" command, it may impact the work of CloudGuard Central License utility. And adding license fails.

PRJ-44478,
PMTR-90345

CloudGuard Network

Azure scan fails if a Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) is deleted after the scan started.

PRJ-44614,
PRHF-27502

VoIP

In rare scenarios, SIP UDP traffic may cause Security Gateway to crash because of a memory allocation issue.

PRJ-44881,
PMTR-86526

Scalable Platforms

After an upgrade, local IPv6 traffic from Active members may fail.

PRJ-41941,
PMTR-87577

Scalable Platforms

When adding a new Virtual System and installing a policy, member state may change to Down.

PRJ-42677,
PRJ-42783

Scalable Platforms

Adding more than 250 VLANs on an Orchestrator MHO-175 Maestro Uplink interface causes intermittent traffic outages. Refer to sk180340.

PRJ-43383,
PMTR-76352

Scalable Platforms

The clock verifier test (clock_verifier -v) fails.

PRJ-43802,
PRJ-43803

Scalable Platforms

The "asg perf" command fails when running it with the "-vv" flag.

PRJ-39722,
PMTR-74779

Scalable Platforms

In a Maestro Security Group, VPN tunnel is established correctly, but the local connection from Virtual Systems (VSs) fails. The issue occurs when packets are not forwarded to the right VS from the Virtual Switch (VSW).

PRJ-40400,
PRHF-24044

Carrier Security

GTP traffic may be dropped and tunnels are not registered in gtp_tunnels.

Take 94

Released on 29 March 2023 and declared as Recommended on 2 April 2023

PRJ-45511

Security Management

There is console access but no network connectivity after installing R81.10 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 93 on top of Blink image that includes Take 87. Refer to sk179799.

Take 93

Released on 5 March 2023

PRJ-43407,
PMTR-86687

Security Management

NEW: On-premises Security Management Server can now connect to Infinity Portal. This allows:

  • to run cloud services, managed in Infinity Portal, on the Security Management Server objects.

  • to see a unified log view of all Check Point products: on-premises and in the cloud.

  • to run Management APIs on the Security Management Server on-premises from any location through Infinity Portal.

Requires:

  1. R81.10 SmartConsole Build 410 (or higher).

  2. Web SmartConsole Take 76 (or higher)

PRJ-43895,
PMTR-89750

Security Gateway

NEW: We have extended the grace period of Compliance Blade to support you for 90 days following contract expiration to continue providing the best security value during the renewal process.

PRJ-43807,
PMTR-89699

Application Control,

URL Filtering

NEW: We have extended the grace period of Application Control and URL Filtering Blade to support you for 90 days contract expiration to continue providing the best security value during the renewal process.

PRJ-44255,
PMTR-90165

Threat Extraction

NEW: We have extended the grace period of Threat Extraction Blade to support you for 90 days following contract expiration to continue providing the best security value during the renewal process.

PRJ-43910,
PMTR-89774

SmartView

NEW: We have extended the grace period of SmartEvent Blade to support you for 90 days following contract expiration to continue providing the best security value during the renewal process.

PRJ-42181,
PMTR-87948

IPS

NEW: Added ability to block "HTTP 206 partial content" responses from resources with malicious content.

PRJ-42658,
TPP-22802

IPS

UPDATE: In several IPS protections, improved performance for traffic that contains repeated sections.

PRJ-43723,
PMTR-82302

SSL Inspection

UPDATE: The secp256r1 curve is now the preferred choice for signing ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) certificates.

PRJ-41419,
PMTR-87634

Security Management

UPDATE: Connecting a Quantum Security Management Server to Infinity Portal is now supported in the Full High Availability Cluster (when each cluster member has a Security Management Server and a Security Gateway).

PRJ-42306,
PRHF-25869

Security Management

UPDATE: Improved the "Purge revisions" operation to reduce the size of the database.

PRJ-36635,
PRHF-22345

Security Management

UPDATE: Added an option to configure the maximum number of IPS SNORT rules.

These lines should be added at the end (or their value should be changed if they already exist) in the file $FWDIR/conf/malware_config

(for MDS - additionally in the $MDS_FWDIR/conf/malware_config file):

"[IPS]

snort_convertor_max_rules_per_update=<value>

snort_convertor_total_rules_num_limit=<value>".

Refer to sk136515.

PRJ-41619,
PMTR-87160

Security Management

UPDATE: To reduce policy installation time in large environments (that have many instances), policy can be installed in batches.

  • Each batch contains several instances that install the policy at the current iteration. By default, the batch size is set to "0" (off).

  • To enable it, run a CLI command "cpprod_util FwSetParam CP_INSTALL_POLICY_MT_LIMIT val" and set the value >0.

PRJ-44559,
PMTR-90438

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Apache HTTPD version was updated from 2.4.53 to 2.4.55.

PRJ-43613,
PRHF-26959

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Gaia Cloning Groups will now use the highest TLS version available.

PRJ-43049,
PRJ-43048

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added support for Data Centers in AWS eu-central-2 (Spain) and eu-south-2 (Zurich) and ap-south-2 (Hyderabad) regions.

PRJ-43025,
PRJ-43026

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added support for connecting to VMware NSX-T 4.0.0.x and higher.

PRJ-42979,
MBS-16146

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Added support for monitoring hardware of Maestro Orchestrator MHO-175.

PRJ-43404,
PMTR-89295

Diagnostics

Skyline may not show any information. Refer to sk180748.

PRJ-40226,
PRHF-24308

Security Management

The FWM process may frequently exit. This causes SmartConsole authentication to fail and dashboards that were opened before to get closed.

PRJ-43340,
PMTR-89193

Security Management

In some scenarios, Audit logs may not be created when running remote API commands from Infinity Portal.

PRJ-41762,
PRHF-25381

Security Management

In some scenarios, the CME process fails to start.

PRJ-42110,
PRHF-25747

Security Management

The date of a policy configured with "accelerated installation" may not be updated in logs.

PRJ-42410,
PRHF-26108

Security Management

Login to the Security Management Server or Multi-Domain Security Management Server may fail with the "Connection timeout" error.

PRJ-43094,
PRHF-25895

Security Management

After configuring an IoC feed on the Global Domain and assigning a Global Policy, Threat Prevention policy installation in the local Domain fails.

PRJ-42042,
PRHF-25899

Security Management

In a rare scenario, the Show Package tool and some Management API commands with details-level "full" fail.

PRJ-41892,
PRHF-25534

Security Management

High Availability synchronization fails if automatic purge is configured to run on the Standby Management Server.

PRJ-39746,
PRHF-24043

Security Management

Adding a rule with the Management API and setting the action "to ask" does not set a default UserCheck if UserCheck was not specified. This may cause policy verification failure.

PRJ-43363,
PMTR-87860

Security Management

Editing a Global Assignment object using Ansible may fail.

PRJ-43317,
PMTR-87565

Security Management

In SmartConsole, when editing a tagged Security Gateway object, the tags may get removed.

PRJ-43254,
PMTR-77168

Security Management

In some scenarios, the "api status" command shows that the Management API service is stopped.

PRJ-43312,
PMTR-88097

Security Management

The API command "show-nat-rulebase" may not show the name of each rule in the Rule Base.

PRJ-43314,
PMTR-88093

Security Management

Running API commands with the "dereference-max-depth" parameter with value "0" may fail when the "Groups" field is in the reply.

PRJ-41928,
PRHF-25575

Security Management

After an upgrade, while installing a policy, SmartConsole may unexpectedly close with a "The connection with the server was lost. Any unsaved changes will be preserved" message. Refer to sk180294.

PRJ-42049,
PRHF-25759

Multi-Domain Security Management

In rare scenarios in a Multi-Domain Security Management environment:

  • Login to the Management Server may timeout and fail.

  • Publish operation may take a long time.

PRJ-42302,
PRHF-25848

Multi-Domain Security Management

Reassigning a Global Domain to a local Active Domain from one MDS to another may result in the local domain not reflecting recent changes. The issue occurs in Multi-Site environments if two Multi-Domain Security Management Servers (MDS) have a Standby Global Domain.

PRJ-43201,
PMTR-86559

SmartProvisioning

Deleting an LSM Gateway via REST API does not revoke the device's VPN certificate.

PRJ-43589,
PMTR-89477

CPView

In a Multi-Domain Security Management environment, Skyline is down after mdsstop/mdsstart.

PRJ-42100,
PMTR-83780

CPView

CPView may not show some interfaces.

PRJ-33052,
PRHF-20237

Logging

The "Daily logs retention" configuration on the Security Management Server / Log Server object is not applied if the "When disk space is below <number> Mbytes, start deleting old files" option is not enabled in the Disk Space Management. Refer to sk176803.

PRJ-39080,
PRHF-23629

Logging

After an upgrade and change of the Security Management Server name, logs created before the upgrade are unavailable.

PRJ-39608,
PRHF-22919

Security Gateway

The Security Group Member (SGM) frequently goes into a Lost-> Down-> Active state because of fullsync pnote. This causes outages.

PRJ-41018,
PRHF-24896

Security Gateway

When using the SMTP service with resource objects in a rule and NAT is configured for the destination IP address, the traffic may match the Cleanup rule instead.

PRJ-43705,
PRHF-27184

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may crash during policy installation if the Rule Base has multiple layers and many interfaces on the Security Gateway (VLANs).

PRJ-41495,
PRHF-24787

Security Gateway

Stability issues when ICAP client is active.

PRJ-43347,
PMTR-88981

Security Gateway

A connection may be closed with the "ws_mux_handle_poll: ERROR: Poll flag still set after unsetting" error in the fwk.elg file, when HTTP parser does not receive requested data.

PRJ-38809,
PMTR-82347

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, when QoS is enabled, the Security Gateway may crash.

PRJ-39801,
PRHF-23890

Security Gateway

After making changes in Policy-Based Routing (PBR) and GRE configuration, the Security Gateway may repeatedly crash.

PRJ-40320,
PRHF-23658

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, the FWK process can unexpectedly exit and cause an outage.

PRJ-42804,
PRHF-23758

Security Gateway

Stability issues when ICAP client is active.

PRJ-43554,
PRHF-26844

Security Gateway

Security Gateway may drop traffic when Dynamic Anti-Spoofing is enabled.

PRJ-42944,
PRHF-26610

Security Gateway

When Anti-Spoofing is enabled, the Security Gateway may crash.

PRJ-41634,
PRHF-25363

Security Gateway

Dynamic Dispatcher may send fragments of the same packet to different Firewall instances during a high load of fragmented traffic. This may cause some packets to drop.

PRJ-36010,
PRHF-21529

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may frequently crash with vmcore files, recording invalid context.

PRJ-42102,
PRHF-25657

Security Gateway

When adding an Access Role object in the NAT Rule Base, connectivity issues on the Security Gateway may occur if the Identity Awareness Blade on it is disabled.

PRJ-43528,
PMTR-89421

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios when ISP Redundancy feature is enabled, default route disappears after policy installation.

PRJ-42088,
PRHF-25938

Security Gateway

The "fw monitor" command output may contain "no packets left to merge" messages.

PRJ-42903,
PRHF-26659

Internal CA

The certificate in SmartConsole is shown as valid, although it is expired.

PRJ-41436,
PRHF-25382

Internal CA

When managing cloud Gateways, the FWM process memory usage may increase.

PRJ-38490,
PMTR-75246

Threat Prevention

In a rare scenario, the mal_conns table may consume a large amount of memory.

PRJ-42286,
PRHF-26079

Threat Prevention

The "ioc_feeds set interval -r" command may fail.

PRJ-41598,
PRHF-25439

Threat Prevention

Anti-Virus Blade fails to parse external IoC feeds that contain commas in the CSV column field value.

PRJ-32738,
PRHF-20234

Threat Prevention

After an upgrade, the FWD process may frequently exit while creating an AMW_report.xml.

PRJ-42585,
PMTR-88424

Threat Prevention

When using a host with automatic static NAT in a Threat Prevention policy object, the object will not be enforced.

PRJ-42438,
PMTR-87619

Threat Prevention

Automatic IPS, Anti-Virus or Anti-Bot updates may fail because of a corrupted next_update file.

PRJ-37567,
AVIR-1428

Threat Prevention

When Anti-Virus Blade is enabled, the Security Gateway may crash because of a memory allocation issue.

PRJ-41688,
PRJ-42223

Threat Prevention

In some scenarios, a "malware_res_rep_rad_query: rad_kernel_malware_request_prepare() failed" message may appear in the /var/log/messages file.

PRJ-42999,
PRHF-24890

Identity Awareness

In a rare scenario, disconnection between the Identity Server (PDP) and Identity Gateway (PEP) leads to missing identities on the PEP side.

PRJ-42339

Identity Awareness

In a VSX High Availability cluster, a member in the Backup state should remain idle, but it opens connections for identity sharing.

PRJ-41323,
PRHF-25083

Identity Awareness

A connectivity issue may occur during Azure AD Group fetch, and the "get_http_error_msg - http code is 401" error response is shown in Identity Awareness logs.

PRJ-41221,
PMTR-86437

Application Control

In some scenarios, the RAD process may freeze after failing to connect to URL Filtering service.

PRJ-41378,
PRHF-25330

IPS

When Anti-Virus is enabled, the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) log files may get blocked because of fail-close operation.

PRJ-42591,
PMTR-88426

IPS

The Security Gateway may crash during policy installation because of a memory allocation problem.

PRJ-35486,
PRHF-21504

DLP

DLP logs for files uploaded to Microsoft OneDrive do not show the initial file names and extensions. Refer to sk178290.

PRJ-31705,
PRJ-29955

Anti-Bot

The "asg perf --delay" command does not change the "refresh time" on the screen.

PRJ-43682,
PRJ-43359

SSL Inspection

In some scenarios, Inbound HTTPS Inspection may fail when working in USFW (User-Space Firewall) mode.

PRJ-43154,
PRHF-26867

Mobile Access

The CVPND process may unexpectedly exit and create a core dump file.

PRJ-41259,
PRHF-25249

Mobile Access

Web applications may not work correctly when Mobile Access Blade is configured in Hostname Translation (HT) mode while the "obscure_destination_hostname" management attribute is disabled.

PRJ-42468,
PRHF-26292

Mobile Access

When Mobile Device Management (MDM) cooperative enforcement feature is enabled, establishing a VPN connection fails while the HTTPD log incorrectly indicates a compliance issue.

PRJ-43116,
PMTR-87809

ClusterXL

The "cphaprob tablestat" command may fail on the Security Gateway with many interfaces.

PRJ-44168,
PRHF-27330

ClusterXL

When handling HTTP/2 traffic, cluster members may crash, generating vmcores.

PRJ-43003,
PRHF-26722

ClusterXL

Traffic does not pass through the GRE tunnel when Virtual MAC (VMAC) is enabled. Refer to sk180292.

PRJ-42464,
PRHF-26264

ClusterXL

Stability issues may occur in a Multi-Version Cluster (MVC) when VPN is enabled.

PRJ-29668,
PRHF-18663

SecureXL

When the "fw_tcp_out_of_state_monitor" mode is enabled with the "fw_allow_out_of_state_tcp" flag, some connections may be dropped, although they should go through and be monitored.

PRJ-42896,
PRHF-26517

SecureXL

SecureXL may drop traffic when HTTPS Inspection is enabled on a VSX Security Gateway with a Virtual Router.

PRJ-42575,
PRHF-25865

SecureXL

Multicast traffic may get dropped, and no logs are generated.

PRJ-43056,
PMTR-74260

Routing

The "show ospf neighbors" command shows incorrect values for OSPF "Hello" and "Dead" intervals. Refer to sk180486.

PRJ-40728,
PMTR-76539

VPN

In some scenarios, when NAT is configured, VoIP traffic is dropped.

PRJ-43595,
PRHF-27185,

PRJ-43299,
PRHF-26853

VPN

Stability issues for Data connections (RDP / RTP / FTP/ETC). Refer to sk179651.

PRJ-44944,
PRHF-28050

VPN

When many users in nested groups login using Remote Access Client \ connect to VPN, and the LDAP topology is large, there may be a spike of CPU usage and performance impact. Refer to sk180664.

PRJ-42879,
PRHF-26241

VPN

When initiating IKEv2 tunnel from Check Point to a third party, creating Child SA fails. Refer to sk180281.

PRJ-42561,
PRHF-26325

VPN

When the user connects with RADIUS authentication method, the "Authentication method" value in Mobile Access logs is shown as empty.

PRJ-42762,
PRHF-26567

VPN

Despite the Secure Configuration Verification (SCV) exceptions being configured to not apply for connections, the strongSWAN client's traffic is dropped with the "Client's configuration is not verified" error.

PRJ-41375,
PRHF-25367

VPN

StrongSWAN Remote Access client can connect but fails to access internal resources.

PRJ-42653,
PRHF-26482

VPN

Stability issues of the VPND and IKED processes.

PRJ-41050,
PRHF-21309

VPN

A memory leak may occur in the VPND process.

PRJ-41697,
VSX-2670

VSX

The "vsx_util change_mgmt_subnet" command may fail if a VSX object is not correctly saved in the database.

PRJ-42883,
PMTR-88764

VSX

In VSX, if Dynamic Balancing was manually disabled on R81.10, after an upgrade from R81.10 to R81.20, it automatically gets enabled.

PRJ-41160,
PRHF-24929

Gaia OS

The SNMPD process may exit with a timeout when the ARP table with many ARP entries takes time to calculate its size.

PRJ-41251,
PMTR-85758

Gaia OS

The backup operation fails if the backed-up directory content is larger than 10GB.

PRJ-42254,
PRHF-26113

Gaia OS

Running the "save configuration" command the second time in the same Clish session may fail with the "free(): invalid pointer" error.

PRJ-42962,
PRHF-26713

Gaia OS

IPv6 address may be removed from bond VLAN interface when changing bond xmit-hash-policy configuration. Refer to sk180309.

PRJ-42526,
PRHF-26323

Gaia OS

Gaia backup fails with "Cannot complete the backup process: not enough space in /var/log/CPbackup/backups" although there is enough free disk space in the /var/log/ partition. Refer to sk180181.

PRJ-43428,
PRJ-42646

Gaia OS

In some scenarios, the "nslookup" command can cause the NSLOOKUP process to exit.

PRJ-42624,
PRHF-26432

Gaia OS

SNMP trap may not be sent after a cluster failover if it occurred by running the "clusterXL_admin down" command.

PRJ-43651,
PRHF-27195

Gaia OS

When setting password hash on cloning group members, some members may not get updated.

PRJ-43959

Gaia OS

When uninstalling a Jumbo Hotfix, some of the REST APIs may not work. The "gaia_api status" command returns an error and requests may fail.

PRJ-40693,
PMTR-71707

Harmony Endpoint

When connecting to the Security Management Server with SmartEndpoint but Endpoint component is not activated on the Server, the FWM process may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-43068,
PRHF-26666

CloudGuard Network

Importing objects from VMware vCenter may fail with a "Failed to fetch objects from the Data Center." message because of a rare communication issue between CloudGuard Network Security controller and VMware vCenter Data.

PRJ-43259,
PRHF-26750

CloudGuard Network

Disabling or removing all network interfaces from a vCenter object is not dynamically reflected on the CloudGuard Controller Data Center object.

PRJ-42696,
PMTR-88821

VoIP

In some scenarios, when using static NAT, VoIP traffic may be affected.

PRJ-43517,

PRHF-26939

VoIP

After an upgrade, VoIP and SIP / H323 traffic may be dropped in the VPN tunnel. Refer to sk179651.

PRJ-43077,
PRHF-26401

VoIP

While handling a multi-INVITE scenario (where a user registers with multiple devices), and VoIP SIP MultiCore feature is enabled, each SIP INVITE maybe be handled simultaneously on different FW instances and cause memory corruption.

PRJ-43488,
PMTR-89380

Scalable Platforms

Running the "show" or "set" commands for SSH in gClish fails.

PRJ-31553

Scalable Platforms

In VSX mode, when configuring affinity settings on Security Group members, a new added member may stay in Down state.

PRJ-30229,
MBS-14167

Scalable Platforms

The BMAC address is not updated after moving an SGM from one slot to a different slot. (The issue applies to Security Gateway only, not to VSX.)

PRJ-31658,
MBS-14468

Scalable Platforms

The output of the "asg perf -6" command shows "IPV6 is Disabled".

PRJ-43601,

PRJ-43213

Scalable Platforms

Time synchronization task is not performed correctly when using predefined NTP Servers.

PRJ-32255,
PMTR-74498

Scalable Platforms

When running "asg diag verify" in an environment with mixed appliances, the "cores_verifier" command fails if there are unused cores, although it should not. The issue is cosmetic only..

PRJ-39602,
PRHF-22874

Scalable Platforms

The SMO may frequently go into Lost-> Down-> Active state because of a memory leak in the FWK process. The issue causes failover and outages.

PRJ-42192,
PMTR-87997

Scalable Platforms

In a multiple upgrade scenario, running the "sp_upgrade-revert" command reverts the setup to the last version, but running it the second time leads to revert instead of performing cleanup.

PRJ-42899,
PRHF-26604

Scalable Platforms

When using asg alert, the domain name is changed to "BladedCenter.com" instead of the configured name.

PRJ-44600

Scalable Platforms

Uninstalling Jumbo Hotfix Take 79-87 from Maestro Orchestrator may cause the REST Server initialization to fail and lead to connectivity issues.

PRJ-44142,
PMTR-89728

Scalable Platforms

Some Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator processes may go down after an upgrade and reboot. Refer to sk180509.

PRJ-43307,
PMTR-89190

Scalable Platforms

Minor packet drop may occur during Maestro Orchestrator graceful reboot.

PRJ-40549

Scalable Platforms

The output of the "asg perf" command may not show active software Blades.

PRJ-43361,
MBS-16516

Scalable Platforms

The "set expert-password-hash" command may fail to update the password hash on all cluster members.

Take 87

Released on 19 January 2023 and declared as Recommended on 7 February 2023

-

General

Alignment to new self-updatable packages.

PRJ-44014,

PMTR-89893

VSX

In VSX, after adding instances to a Virtual System (VS), their state may be inactive.

Take 85

Released on 12 January 2023

PRJ-42849,
PRHF-26378

Multi-Domain Security Management

In a Multi-Domain Security Management environment, traffic may not match rules with custom applications.

PRJ-43891,
PRHF-26317

SSL Inspection

In rare scenarios, the FWK and/or WSTLSD processes may unexpectedly exit and create a core dump during certificate validation. Refer to sk180473.

Take 82

Released on 8 January 2023

PRJ-39425,
PRJ-39424

Security Management

NEW:

  • Added ability for R81.10 Security Management and Multi-Domain Security Management Server to manage R81.20 Security Gateways. It Requires R81.10 SmartConsole Build 412 (or higher).

  • Managing R81.20 Security Gateways in Autonomous Threat Prevention mode requires installing R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator.

PRJ-42564

Security Management

UPDATE: It is now possible use multiple values when filtering in these views:

  • Global Assignments (MDS)

  • Permissions (MDS)

  • Sessions (MDS)

  • IPS (Domain level)

PRJ-38116,
PRHF-23142

Security Management

UPDATE: Install Policy Presets will now run also in multi-site environments, even if the local domain does not have a Server on the Multi-Domain Security Management Server with the Active Global Domain, where the operation is triggered from.

PRJ-34898,
PMTR-63494

Security Management

UPDATE: Improved the "Assign Global Policy" action time by approximately 50%.

PRJ-42033,
PMTR-87522

Security Management

UPDATE: Added a new Management API "mgmt_cli verify-management-license". It allows to check how many Security Gateway objects the Management Server license supports. Note that this API does not support Quantum Maestro and VSX. Refer to Management API Reference.

PRJ-42981,
ODU-747

Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: Released Take 73 with new features and improvements. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-42981,
ODU-747

CPView

UPDATE: Added logging information. The Logging tab can be found in the Advanced tab on both the Security Management Server and Security Gateway. Refer to sk101878.

PRJ-41229

Logging

UPDATE: Port 8211 no longer accepts connections with the cipher TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA.

PRJ-38056,
PRHF-23074

Logging

UPDATE: When there is no full license for SmartEvent, which includes the Correlation Unit component, Analyzer Client in Legacy SmartEvent Console will now show a relevant message.

PRJ-32781,
PMTR-72977

Security Gateway

UPDATE: The reset expired connections feature (fw_rst_expired_conn) is now supported on connections accelerated by SecureXL.

PRJ-42201

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: Reduced loading time of big external Custom Intelligence Feeds.

PRJ-42702,
ODU-494

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: Added Update 16 of Autonomous Threat Prevention Management integration Release. Refer to sk167109.

PRJ-38198,
PRHF-22998

UserCheck

UPDATE: Added support for custom UserCheck objects for Threat Extraction. Previously it was not possible to configure them when using Autonomous Threat Prevention Policy. Refer to sk178764.

PRJ-41735,
PMTR-87362

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added support for Data Centers in AWS me-central-1 Middle East (UAE) region.

PRJ-41713,

ODU-603

Smart-1 Cloud

UPDATE: Added Update 6 of Quantum Smart-1 Cloud. Refer to sk166056.

PRJ-27770,
PMTR-75901

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: The "revert to snapshot" operation is now blocked on Scalable Platforms when the snapshot remains from the previous version and is not created as a part of the current upgrade process.

PRJ-40628,
PMTR-85003

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Blocked the ability to install Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator or to run an upgrade to a major version on Quantum Maestro Security Gateways using the Central Deployment tool in SmartConsole or the Management REST API.

PRJ-41650,
MBS-16088

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Upon member state change to Active, there may be minor packet drops. Added an option to not forward traffic to a new Active member until all connections are synchronized to it:

• To enable this option:

  • on the fly, run g_fw -a ctl set int fwha_force_present_state_over_active 1

  • to be boot persistent, run g_update_conf_file fwkern.conf fwha_force_present_state_over_active =1

• To disable this option:

  • on the fly, run g_fw -a ctl set int fwha_force_present_state_over_active 0

  • to be boot persistent, rung_update_conf_file fwkern.conf fwha_force_present_state_over_active =0

PRJ-40773,
PMTR-77523

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: The "Obtain IPv4 Address Automatically" option in the IPv4 and IPv6 tabs of the Gaia Portal's Interface editor is now disabled (as it is on gClish).

PRJ-41935,
PMTR-83771

VoIP

UPDATE: Added a new CLI command "fw ctl voip [-p {sip| mgcp| sccp| h323}] [-na]". It allows printing the description of defined VoIP protections, the required action, and the logging option configured for each protection.

PRJ-38613,
PRHF-22986

Harmony Endpoint

UPDATE: Added the "-ignoreDA" flag for "epmcommands" to clean objects from the deleted users and computers, ignoring the "da_installed" flag.

PRJ-41999,
ODU-478

HCP

UPDATE: Added Update 11 of HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release. Refer to sk171436.

PRJ-40540,
PMTR-85125

Diagnostics

The cpview -s export operations may fail on VS0 when cpview_services are running.

PRJ-43904,
SMB-19002

Security Management

On R77.20 Quantum Spark appliances with some IPS packages, policy installation fails with the "Operation failed, install/uninstall has been improperly terminated" error. Refer to sk180448.

PRJ-41556,
PRHF-25556

Security Management

After an Application Control update, policy installation may fail.

PRJ-40943,
PRHF-24600

Security Management

In rare scenarios, in a large environment, after an IPS update, High Availability synchronization may fail with timeout on the Global Domain.

PRJ-41562,
PRHF-25567

Security Management

After an upgrade, in the Gateways&Servers view, searching Security Gateway objects by their interfaces' IP addresses fails.

PRJ-39392,
PRHF-23578

Security Management

In some scenarios, the "Assign Global Policy" action fails with the error message: "An internal error has occurred".

PRJ-39611,
PRHF-24007

Security Management

After an upgrade, on the Domain level, in the Administrators View, the email and phone of the administrators may be missing.

PRJ-41679,
PMTR-86014

Security Management

An upgrade may fail with timeout during the import of a large database file.

PRJ-41576,
PRHF-25434

Security Management

In an environment with many Security Gateways, login to SmartConsole after starting services may take a long time.

PRJ-34737,
PRHF-21233

Security Management

When running the "show access-rule" API command with the "show-as-ranges" parameter on rules with negated cells, the returned result may be missing the values of the negated cells.

PRJ-41071,
PRHF-25026

Security Management

Global Policy reassignment fails with "An internal error has occurred" if a Global rule, Rule Base, or section is created, moved, and then deleted without running a reassignment in between.

PRJ-41292,
PRHF-25101

Security Management

Access Policy installation may fail with the "Internal error occurred during the verification process" error.

PRJ-41127,
PMTR-85721

Security Management

Centrally managed Quantum Spark Gateway version may be missing or incorrect after performing the "Get Gateway Data" action from SmartUpdate.

PRJ-41976,
PRHF-25682

Security Management

The /var/log/dump/usermode/ directory on the Management Server may contain core dump files for the FWM process. Refer to sk180119.

PRJ-40426,
PRHF-24492

Security Management

In rare scenarios, deleting a cluster member may fail with the "Could not delete object. Failed to remove/detach objects licenses" error.

PRJ-40944,
PRHF-24601

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the FWM process may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-41914,
PMTR-78191

Security Management

Installing Database from Security Management on an R80.x Log Server may fail.

PRJ-42240,
SMB-19124

Security Management

Installing a large Access Control policy on Quantum Spark Security Gateways may fail due to high memory consumption on the Security Management Server caused by FW_LOADER.

PRJ-42953,
PMTR-88744

Security Management

In an environment with the Endpoint Security Server, Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator installation may take a long time.

PRJ-40238,
PMTR-84358

Security Management

Policy installation may fail with "Segmentation fault" or with "INTERNAL ERROR in PutBlock: dangling block at PutBlock". Refer to sk179700.

PRJ-41671,
PRHF-25452

Security Management

When using CME (Cloud Management Extension), the FWM process may unexpectedly exit because of a memory issue.

PRJ-42859,
PRHF-26649

Security Management

After performing the "Revert to Revision" operation, new Audit logs cannot be seen in the Logging&Monitoring View in SmartConsole.

PRJ-42509,
PRHF-26349

Security Management

Access policy verification may fail when dynamic objects exist in the NAT policy.

PRJ-40823,
PMTR-85091

Security Management

Warning about multiple objects with the same IP address is displayed when there are duplicated auto-generated networks.

PRJ-41541,
PMTR-87066

Security Management

The FWK process may unexpectedly exit during Threat Prevention policy installation.

PRJ-40223,
PRHF-24307

Security Management

In a large environment, High Availability synchronization for the Global domain may fail with the "Global domain is busy syncing, please check sync status" error.

PRJ-41553,
PMTR-83511

Security Management

Policy installation may get stuck on 99% when resuming queued policy installation tasks.

PRJ-37832,
PRHF-21070

Security Management

"Automatic purge" fails on a Domain with active Global Domain Assignment and "automatic purge" configured on the Global Domain.

PRJ-40734,
PRHF-24711

Security Management

In rare scenarios, Global Policy reassignment may fail with a "Failed to find object ID UUID of class com.checkpoint.objects.ips.ThreatIpsProtectionOverride" message.

PRJ-39718,
PRHF-24047

Security Management

It may not be possible to discard a work session with a newly created admin, a "Failed to discard revoke certificate" message is shown.

PRJ-37311,
PRHF-21848

Multi-Domain Security Management

SmartEvent may unexpectedly close when clicking Global Exclusion options or creating a new event. This issue occurs after migrating a Domain from the Multi-Domain Security Management Server to the Security Management Server.

PRJ-42291,
PMTR-83191

Multi-Domain Security Management

An upgrade of the secondary Multi-Domain Security Management Server or Multi-Domain Log Server may fail when simultaneously upgrading several Servers.

PRJ-42105,
PRHF-25807

Multi-Domain Security Management

In a Multi-Domain Security Management environment, the HitCount retention mechanism may prematurely remove the HitCount data.

PRJ-41920,
PRHF-25795

Multi-Domain Security Management

In rare scenarios, in a Multi-Domain Security Management Server environment, a memory leak may occur in the FWM process. This may cause the process to exit.

PRJ-37706,
PRHF-22836

Logging

It may not be possible to filter the "Subscriber" field in SmartLog.

PRJ-37298,
PRHF-22631

Logging

When exporting logs with the fwm logexport script and there is an empty or corrupted log file, the script runs in a loop with the "Failed to read record at position 0" error printed.

PRJ-41194,
PMTR-68271

Logging

It may not be possible to filter Anti-Virus logs for malicious CIFS traffic in SmartConsole. The issue is cosmetic only.

PRJ-35880,
PRHF-21739

Logging

Although the Security Gateway is configured to send Syslog messages to the Domain Log Server (CLM), after several initial logs, they may stop coming to the Log Server.

PRJ-40492,
PRHF-24541

Logging

In a rare scenario, when using SmartEvent Automatic Reaction (Mail), the source IP address can be shown as a number and not in the dotted decimal notation format.

PRJ-40144,
PRHF-24306

Logging

Emails sent as an automatic reaction may show only the first IP address for "Source"/"Destination" fields out of all the detected IP addresses.

PRJ-38052,
PRHF-23090

Logging

Syslog messages with the "ErtFeed" type of attack are not indexed correctly in SmartLog.

PRJ-41917,
PMTR-78055

Logging

Export to CSV in SmartView may be stuck in the "running" status.

PRJ-41355,
PMTR-74878

Logging

In some scenarios, in the Logs view, the "Description" field may be missing. The issue is only cosmetic.

PRJ-41930,
PRHF-20117

Logging

When running the "show_logs" API command with "query-id argument" and the session is expired, the command ends with a timeout instead of presenting an error.

PRJ-31865,
PMTR-66327

Logging

When exporting logs in CEF format using Log Exporter and the value of the "time-in-milli" parameter is set as "true" (sk173167), the logs are not displayed in ArcSight SIEM Solution.

PRJ-42414,
PRHF-26316

Logging

When LEA spawning is turned off (sk91343), the FWD process may run out of memory.

PRJ-37500,
PRHF-22655

Logging

The "epoll is enabled" warning is incorrectly displayed during policy installation.

PRJ-40235,
PRHF-23763

Security Gateway

There may be stability issues when ICAP client is active.

PRJ-41864,
PRHF-25769

Security Gateway

After an upgrade, it is not possible to monitor Security Gateways with enabled Management Data Plane Separation (MDPS).

PRJ-39968,
PRHF-24112

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may crash with the "xxx kernel: [fw4_27];fwatomload_unregister: module RTM not registered xxx kernel: [fw4_27];e2eDisable: fwatomload_unregister failed" errors printed in logs.

PRJ-41451,
PMTR-85044

Security Gateway

Policy verification fails when a generic Data Center contains an object with an empty range.

PRJ-42972,
MBS-16324

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway on a LightSpeed appliance may crash when a Bond interface is configured on the LightSpeed 10/25/40/100G QSFP28 Ports, and the state of this Bond interface changes between on / off, or off / on.

PRJ-40927,
PRHF-24649

Security Gateway

When installing policy and the kernel parameter "up_log_extended_reason_for_incomplete_match" is set to 1, the Security Gateway may crash.

PRJ-41580,
PMTR-65731

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, the CPD process may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-40109,
PRHF-20889

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, the Security Gateway may crash when offloading packets to SecureXL.

PRJ-43127,
PMTR-89008

Security Gateway

Some TCP connections may be stuck in "Both-Fin" state in the SecureXL connection table and cause high memory consumption.

PRJ-39575,
IPS-171

Security Gateway

The "sd_exception_chain_with_global_stateless: fwx_get_original_conn_key() failed" messages may flood /var/log/messages if IPS Blade is active.

PRJ-41624,
PMTR-78011

Security Gateway

When using Routing Separation and installing a Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator, MDPS configuration may be overridden. Refer to sk138672.

PRJ-40917,
PRHF-24590

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may crash because of memory corruption, and the following error appears in the /var/log/message file: "[XXX] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: <xxxx>".

PRJ-39332,
PRHF-23528

Security Gateway

After an upgrade, Access Control policy installation may fail with an "Update process is already running" message.

PRJ-35110,
PMTR-77852

Security Gateway

There may be connectivity failure when browsing to Office 365, and ICAP Client is active on the Security Gateway with enabled "Data Trickling".

PRJ-41416,
PRHF-24690

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may send multiple "Failed to fetch Check Point resources. Timeout was reached" logs.

PRJ-40974,
PRHF-24784

Threat Prevention

Threat Prevention policy installation may fail with a "Connection aborted by Peer" message.

PRJ-41316,
PMTR-86509

Threat Prevention

Threat prevention policy installation fails if a Custom Intelligence Feeds name includes unsupported characters.

PRJ-41489,
PMTR-84472

Threat Prevention

Loading of Custom Intelligence Feeds with authentication may fail.

PRJ-38722,
PMTR-82545

Threat Prevention

File Download using SSH with MobaXterm Client fails when SSH Deep Packet Inspection (SSH DPI) is enabled.

PRJ-40936,
PMTR-85828

Threat Prevention

In a rare scenario, the Security Gateway may have a memory allocation issue.

PRJ-41439,
PRJ-40749

Threat Prevention

After installing a hotfix in a cluster setup with a Threat Prevention policy that includes Network Objects, a member may get stuck during initialization after a reboot.

PRJ-38665,
PRHF-23320

Threat Prevention

The DLPU process may unexpectedly exit with a core dump file.

PRJ-43360

Threat Extraction

In some scenarios, Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) does not scan files with an unsupported extension if they were renamed to ".exe".

PRJ-36509,
PRHF-22053

Identity Awareness

The CPU utilization of the PDP daemon may be high during a specific authentication flow.

PRJ-38543,
PRHF-22565

Identity Awareness

The PDPD daemon may frequently exit during the user authentication flow.

PRJ-31975,
PMTR-74053

Identity Awareness

Changing the state of the "Automatic LDAP Group Update" feature for Identity Collector from CLI on the PDP Gateway does not survive a reboot.

PRJ-34571,
PRHF-21045

Identity Awareness

SNMP/cpstat queries for Identity Awareness OIDs return wrong values if the PDP daemon is not running at the time of the query.

PRJ-41820,
PMTR-87497

Identity Awareness

In a rare scenario, the PDPD process may unexpectedly exit during peer certificate verification.

PRJ-42506,
PRHF-26186

Application Control

In a rare scenario, when Application Control is enabled, the Security Gateway in AWS Cloud may crash. The issue does not occur if Application Control database on the Security Gateway is updated with Release 141122_1 and higher.

PRJ-32992,
PRHF-20460

IPS

In some scenarios, IPS logs do not show the correct memory and CPU utilization when IPS is bypassed.

PRJ-41655,
PRHF-25585

IPS

Running the "ips stats" command in CLI may cause the IPS process to unexpectedly exit with core dumps.

PRJ-39753,
PRHF-23882

Anti-Virus

The Anti-Virus Blade interprets certain types of URLs as forbidden and blocks access to those URLs, although the content behind them is not of the type supposed to be blocked.

PRJ-41216,
PRHF-23321

Anti-Virus

In a rare scenario, when Anti-Virus is enabled, there may be frequent VSX cluster failovers, and the Security Gateway may crash.

PRJ-43181,
PRHF-26878

SSL Inspection

The WSTLSD process may unexpectedly exit and create core dump files.

PRJ-41973,
PRJ-42152

Mobile Access

After an upgrade, it may not be possible to connect to SNX, it gets stuck when initializing.

PRJ-32969,
PRHF-20588

Mobile Access

Capsule Workspace push notifications do not work when the Single Sign-On (SSO) is configured to "prompt for credentials". Refer to sk176244.

PRJ-40833,
PRHF-24826

Mobile Access

After disabling the ActiveSync service on the Security Gateway, login to Capsule Workspace (CWS) may fail.

PRJ-32972,
PRHF-20670

Mobile Access

Push notification may not be working with the legacy Mobile Access (MAB) Portal. Refer to sk176243.

PRJ-38460,
PRHF-23267

Mobile Access

In some scenarios, it is not possible to connect to SSL Network Extender(SNX), and the VPND log shows: "failed to add to table connectra_sessions_to_instance".

PRJ-40745,
PRHF-24710

ClusterXL

The cphaprob show_bond command does not show newly added slaves from Virtual Systems (VSs).

PRJ-42928,
PMTR-88804

ClusterXL

A Hide NAT port may be allocated twice causing the "out of state" drops.

PRJ-37151,
PRHF-22237

ClusterXL

In an Active/Active cluster, a member may reboot because of a memory corruption issue.

PRJ-39184,
PRHF-23684

ClusterXL

In a VRRP cluster environment with a large number of interfaces, the Security Gateway may consume a lot of memory because of a memory leak.

PRJ-42445,
PRHF-26215

SecureXL

The Security Gateway may prematurely expire half-closed TCP connections and drop VoIP and HTTPS packets with "First packet isn't SYN". Refer to sk180364.

PRJ-42073,
PRHF-25880

SecureXL

In some scenarios, the change of the cphwd_enable_ecmp global parameter value on a VSX Gateway does not survive a reboot.

PRJ-42230,
PRHF-25785

SecureXL

DNS Traffic Steering feature does not work over TCP.

PRJ-41691,
PRHF-25516

SecureXL

The Security Gateway may crash and cause an outage when resolving the destination host MAC address through an interface with disabled ARP.

PRJ-42145,
PMTR-88118

SecureXL

SNDs may reach 100% CPU utilization and are not released in some Site to Site VPN scenarios.

PRJ-40266,
PRHF-23964

CoreXL

Connections matching the Access Control rules may get timed out, although they should be rejected according to the configuration.

PRJ-41504,
PMTR-75250

Routing

Some invalid nexthop and destination addresses from remote BGP peers may be incorrectly handled, causing lost BGP connection.

PRJ-41724,
PRHF-25460

Routing

The "asg diag verify" command reports inconsistent OSPFv3 routes for Security Gateway Modules in Quantum Maestro. Refer to sk179931.

PRJ-41870,
PMTR-87537

Routing

Gaia API request "show-routes" may fail with the "generic error" and the ROUTED core dump is generated.

PRJ-41708,
PRHF-25613

Routing

The ROUTED process may unexpectedly exit when the route does not have a next hop.

PRJ-41642,
VPNRA-795

VPN

In some scenarios, StrongSwan Client may get disconnected during re-authentication.

PRJ-41809,
PMTR-87347

VPN

When connecting with "Mixed" SSL Network Extender Authentication method, the SNX Client freezes with no output, and the results of the "vpn tu tlist" command show no tunnels.

PRJ-40860,
PRHF-24635

VPN

The VPND process may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-42729,
PRHF-26453

VPN

In a rare scenario, when IPv6 is configured, and VPN is enabled, policy installation may cause a stability issue.

PRJ-39171,
PRHF-23749

VPN

Remote Access Client may fail to connect when using machine certificate authentication.

PRJ-38167,
PRHF-22957

VPN

Trying to perform the "Reset Tunnel" action for an LDAP user from SmartView Monitor fails. Refer to sk178592.

PRJ-42376,
PMTR-87326

VPN

The IKED process unexpectedly exits when the "Aggressive SLP" (Simultaneous Login Prevention) feature is enabled.

PRJ-40830,
PRHF-24812

VPN

The Security Gateway does not initiate or accept the VPN negotiation when working in Traditional Mode. Refer to sk179710.

PRJ-41560,
PRHF-25552

VPN

After an upgrade, the community name may not be visible from SmartView Monitor, and the "snmpwalk" command returns an empty value for this entry.

PRJ-42310,
PMTR-87519

VPN

Improved VPN tunnel synchronization in a Multi-Version Cluster environment (MVC).

PRJ-38516,
PRHF-23107

VSX

SecureXL may not let HTTPS traffic pass through a Virtual Router (VR).

PRJ-43356,
PMTR-89245

VSX

The SNMPD process may consume a high CPU in a VSX environment and there may be slowness when using the "fw vsx stat" command. Refer to sk180324.

PRJ-43140

Gaia OS

After an upgrade, the RADIUS Server is unavailable and authentication fails.

PRJ-41234,
PRHF-25144

Gaia OS

There are trap names duplications in chkpnt.mib and chkpnt-trap.mib which may cause incorrect values when using SNMP traps.

PRJ-41409,
PRHF-25359

Gaia OS

When configuring Gaia Cloning Group mode on the cluster, members with "off" state appear without an IP address and the "adding notification Member mvc is down" error is displayed.

PRJ-34372,
PRHF-21347

Gaia OS

After an upgrade, the backup operation on VSX fails because there is not enough space in /var/log/CPbackup/backups.

PRJ-41613,
PMTR-87176

Gaia OS

Information about scheduled backup failure is now displayed in Clish, WebUI, and in the error message inside the log file.

PRJ-41686,
PRHF-25430

Gaia OS

In a cloning group cluster, when allowed hosts are changed from "Any" host to a specific host, communication between members is blocked, and the group cannot function.

PRJ-42150,
PRJ-42015

CloudGuard Network

Improved performance of pushing Data Center Objects changes to Security Gateways.

PRJ-42855,
PRHF-26286

CloudGuard Network

A Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) or a Virtual Machine using SRIOV with the i40evf/ixgbevf network driver, may boot with non-optimized performance settings.

PRJ-41846,
PRHF-25754

CloudGuard Network

Improved handling of NSX-T API responses.

PRJ-42010,
PRHF-25644

CloudGuard Network

When mapping of some Azure Subscriptions fails, assets of these Subscriptions are revoked from the Security Gateway.

PRJ-42115,
PRHF-25910

CloudGuard Network

AWS Data Center mapping fails when a Subnet with only IPv6 addresses is added to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

PRJ-41463,
PRHF-25422

CloudGuard Network

Import of OpenStack Data Center CloudGuard Network objects may fail.

PRJ-42257,
PRHF-26160

CloudGuard Network

After an upgrade in a Huawei Cloud environment, a network card may be renamed after a reboot.

PRJ-28732,
PRHF-11703

VoIP

In some scenarios, when using early media with NAT, the first data connections specified in the SDP get closed, although they should not. And the new data connection does not open, resulting in one-way audio. Refer to sk179651.

PRJ-40355,
PRHF-24453

Scalable Platforms

When running the "set kernel-routes on/off" and "set domainname <VALUE>" commands through gCLish, the configuration is applied only locally.

PRJ-36510,
PRHF-21993

Scalable Platforms

In some scenarios, a newly added Security Group Member (SGM) continuously reboots, and there are core dump files for the CONFD process. Refer to sk178405.

PRJ-40180,
PRHF-24199

Scalable Platforms

In a rare scenario, the FWK process may unexpectedly exit and bring down the Security Gateway Module (SGM).

PRJ-42514,
PMTR-88150

Scalable Platforms

Upon failover/failback, multicast packets are sent to Active members only. The member that changed state from Down to Active starts receiving the multicast packets before the route is resolved. This may impact traffic.

PRJ-40835,
MBS-15935

Scalable Platforms

In a rare scenario, a non-SMO member may send GARP request over the Management interface, causing traffic impact.

PRJ-41146,
PRHF-25000

Scalable Platforms

In some scenarios, the SNMPD process may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-41473,
PMTR-84696

Scalable Platforms

Configuration of exception entries (asg_excp_conf, see sk175584) does not survive an upgrade. As a result, traffic that was configured to be forwarded to SMO is handled by the original member.

PRJ-32368,
PMTR-70507

Scalable Platforms

In a dual site environment with two Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrators on each site, the asg diag test may fail in a mixed appliances setup because of a difference in affinity configuration files.

PRJ-37829,
PRHF-22738

Scalable Platforms

Improved VPN on Quantum Maestro with Security Gateways hidden behind NAT.

PRJ-41835,
PRHF-25720

Scalable Platforms

SNMP threshold events traps may be missing "Chassis ID" and "Blade ID" fields. Refer to sk179926.

PRJ-42558,
PRHF-24528

Scalable Platforms

Policy installation may cause backplane interfaces flapping. This can affect the connectivity with the Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator, and the members may go to Down state.

PRJ-39190,
PRHF-23723

Scalable Platforms

When a policy is configured with "SNMP trap alert script", the SNMP trap is sent with an undefined OID.

PRJ-42947,
MBS-11024

Scalable Platforms

Optimized the SNMP communication between Security Gateway Module (SGM) and Security Switch Module (SSM) to prevent timeouts.

PRJ-39318,
MBS-15404

Scalable Platforms

Failover/failback may cause a non-DR manager member to change state to Down because the ROUTED unexpectedly exits with pnote.

PRJ-41212,
PRHF-25227

Scalable Platforms

Performance data may not be collected on VSX Security Gateways.

PRJ-42820,
PMTR-88702

Scalable Platforms

In a Quantum Maestro environment, the sp_upgrade command may fail when working in VSX mode.

PRJ-42834,
PMTR-88649

Scalable Platforms

When trying to perform the downgrade procedure, a Site may be stuck in Backup state. The issue occurs if, before the downgrade, this Security Group was first upgraded and then its topology was changed.

Take 81

Released on 22 Nov 2022 and declared as Recommended on 2 January 2023

PRJ-41364

SecureXL

NEW: Added support for enabling Hardware Acceleration in Quantum LightSpeed Appliances. Refer to sk179432.

PRJ-45565,

ACCHA-2110

Gaia OS

The $FWDIR/log/fwd.elg file may get corrupted during log rotation. Refer to sk180728.

PRJ-42687

Harmony Endpoint

  • After an upgrade of the on-premises Endpoint Management Server to Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator R81.10 Take 75, it is not possible to connect to the Web Management Server.

  • When logging into the Web Management Console, an "API error 9999" message is displayed.

Refer to sk180230.

PRJ-41507,
PMTR-87006

Scalable Platforms

After an upgrade to Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator R81.10 Take 75 or higher, a member may be in Down state with a "pull_config" pnote.

Take 79

Released on 24 October 2022 and declared as Recommended on 21 November 2022

PRJ-38348,
PMTR-81030

Diagnostics

The CPVIEWD process may cause CPU spikes.

PRJ-40819,
PMTR-80047

Security Management

NEW: It is now possible to clone Access and HTTPS Inspection layers via Management REST API.

PRJ-41083,
PMTR-86078

Security Management

UPDATE: If ISP Redundancy is configured for a target Security Gateway, backup interfaces are now used for pushing policy if the primary interface is down.

PRJ-40000,
PMTR-84248

Security Management

UPDATE: Added a new API version (1.8.1). Refer to Management API Reference.

PRJ-31201,
PRHF-19545

Security Management

UPDATE: Audit logs for Access Control rules now contain more information about the rule.

PRJ-39462,
PRHF-23711

Security Management

UPDATE: Management API performance improvements:

  • When moving a rule, the "set-access-rule" command is now up to 15 times faster.

  • When using a rule name, the "set-access-rule" command is now twice as fast.

PRJ-40100,

PMTR-72725

Security Management

After a policy installation failure, fetching policy on the Security Gateway side by running the "fw fetch local" command may also fail.

PRJ-37912,
PRHF-22870

Security Management

The flag "--method" for a CME command is not supported in SmartConsole Command Line.

PRJ-37339

Security Management

Objects that do not belong to groups may be shown in the Group Membership view in SmartConsole.

PRJ-40205,
PRHF-24315

Security Management

In some scenarios, certificate based login to a Log Server may fail with "Authentication Error". Refer to sk179144

PRJ-38709,
PRHF-23378

Security Management

Login to Domain via Management API using FQDN as the Domain parameter may fail with the "Domain not found" error.

PRJ-38218,
PRHF-22973

Security Management

If Log Domain reassignment fails, an Application Control and URL Filtering update may get stuck at 70 percent showing the "Running post update actions" status.

PRJ-39805,
PMTR-83656

Security Management

In Object Explorer, when filtering by type, all other filters may disappear until the selected filter is removed.

PRJ-40587,
PRHF-24553

Security Management

The "Domain" and "Type" fields may be missing in the "show-groups" command output of a Management API request. Refer to sk179645.

PRJ-40408,
PMTR-84933

Security Management

Editing a Threat Profile object using Ansible automation tool may fail.

PRJ-38426,
PMTR-81862

Security Management

Login to Management Server may fail if a trusted client has a subnet mask defined in CIDR notation. Refer to sk177743.

PRJ-39409,
PRJ-40901

Security Management

In the Object Explorer window in SmartConsole, numeric columns are sorted alphabetically, although they should be sorted in numerical order.

PRJ-40516,
PMTR-85116

Security Management

Adding members to a user group may fail when using Management API.

PRJ-33896,
PRHF-20973

Security Management

Global Domain Assignment may fail if a rule in the global policy was recently enabled or disabled.

PRJ-40646,
PRHF-24621

Security Management

Deleting a Security Gateway in SmartConsole may fail.

PRJ-41098,
PMTR-81750

Security Management

The "CPLogGetMyIp: fwobj_get_myown failed" error may be printed in CLI when starting cpboot.

PRJ-38789,
PRHF-23476

Security Management

Install Policy Preset may fail with "The server did not provide a meaningful reply.". Refer to sk179524.

PRJ-39210,
PRHF-23632

Security Management

The output of the "show opsec-application" API command may not show the host object name or UID.

PRJ-38457,
PRHF-23314

Security Management

High Availability synchronization may fail with the "Failed to update shared licenses" error.

PRJ-33922,
PRHF-21160

Security Management

Some unused sessions may remain open in the system, consuming memory and CPU.

PRJ-40721,
PRHF-24546

Security Management

Access Control policy installation may fail with the "Internal error" message when the encryption domain contains a Data Center object.

PRJ-40851,
PMTR-84394

Security Management

The LOG_EXPORTER process may cause high CPU because of frequent invocation of the "fw ver" command.

PRJ-39538,
PRHF-23867

Security Management

An Application Control and URL Filtering update may get stuck at 70 percent with the "Running post update actions" status. Refer to sk174587.

PRJ-39223,
PRHF-23186

Security Management

An Application Control and URL Filtering Database update may fail. The CPM log file states: "Update APPI Update Task Notification. progress: 100, status: FAILED, statusText: Failed to assign domain".

PRJ-40058,
PRHF-24082

Security Management

An Application Control and URL Filtering update may still occur even if the latest version is already installed.

PRJ-39334,
PRHF-23594

Security Management

Install Policy Presets may fail with the "Install Policy Failed: Could not commit JPA transaction" error.

PRJ-40547,
PRHF-24405

Security Management

After an upgrade, when the local domain Virtual System (VS) is updated, its objects may not be updated. The mirror VS object and local domain VS object may have different versions and colors.

PRJ-40810,
PRHF-24809

Security Management

SmartConsole may unexpectedly disconnect.

PRJ-40170,
PRHF-24144

Multi-Domain Management

A Multi-Domain Management Server upgrade may fail if upgrading one of the domains takes longer than four hours.

PRJ-39489,
PRHF-23926

Multi-Domain Management

In some scenarios, in a Multi-Domain Management Server environment, SmartConsole may unexpectedly disconnect.

PRJ-38125,

PRHF-23066

Multi-Domain Management

Although all Virtual Devices are deleted, deleting a Domain may fail with an "At least one Virtual Device is defined on this Domain/Domain Management Server. You need to delete all Virtual Systems/Routers prior to deleting Domain/Domain Management Server" message.

PRJ-41286,
ODU-470

Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: Released Take 67 with new features and improvements. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-40613,
PRHF-24080

Compliance

In the Compliance Blade view, regulations with disabled best practices may display a result that does not correspond with the best practices listed below it.

PRJ-41022,
PMTR-86000

CPView

NEW: Integrated Skyline, a solution that provides an OpenTelemetry CPView Agent service to monitor your Check Point Servers and export health metrics from the CPView tool to an external location. Refer to sk178566.

PRJ-36192,
PRHF-22004

Logging

UPDATE: Amended the override_server_setting.sh script to support changes in the values of RFL_SOLR_MAX_MERGE_COUNT and RFL_SOLR_MAX_MERGE_THREAD_COUNT.

PRJ-29738,
PMTR-72628

Logging

In SmartView, exporting views or reports that do not have tables may indefinitely continue processing.

PRJ-40194,
PMTR-82439

Logging

After an upgrade from R81 to R81.10, maintenance cleanup may remove some recent logs while not erasing other logs from the disk.

PRJ-28112,
PRHF-18175

Logging

In rare scenarios, logs may not be indexed on the Domain Log Server in a Multi-Domain Log Module (MLM) or on the Secondary Multi-Domain Management Server.

PRJ-39590,
PRHF-23981

Logging

The FWD process may unexpectedly exit and create core dump files.

PRJ-40358,
PRHF-24410

Logging

In some scenarios, the FWD process may unexpectedly exit in a Log Server environment. Refer to sk179596.

PRJ-30965,

EPS-562

Logging

In some scenarios, the Forensics report fails to open from Harmony Endpoint logs.

PRJ-36477,
PRHF-22241

Logging

In SmartConsole, when Endpoint Policy Management Blade is enabled, the "SmartView server certificate is invalid" error may be shown when opening a new tab in the Logs & Monitor view. Refer to sk177713.

PRJ-32207,
PRHF-20107

Logging

The "show-logs" Management API command fails when iterating over many pages of queries, and the total fetched records number exceeds 219,900 records.

PRJ-41360,
PMTR-85027

Logging

Running the "cpstat ls -f logging" command on the Security Gateway may show the "disconnected" status after a reboot, although a new connection is established successfully.

PRJ-41103,
PRHF-25074

Logging

When an object name begins with a digit, SmartView Monitor displays a name consisting of the letter "v" and UID instead of the actual object name.

PRJ-34680,
PMTR-75424

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Decreased the threshold for connections suspected as heavy from 5 to 3 seconds. Refer to sk164215.

PRJ-40505,
PMTR-85083

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added a defense mechanism against partial header attacks known as "Slowloris DoS" (CVE-2007-6750).

PRJ-38144,
PRHF-22814

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added support for RADIUS UPN authentication with MS-CHAPv2. To use it, enable the registry configuration in ckp_regedit -a SOFTWARE/Checkpoint/VPN1 RADIUS_MSCHAPV2_UPN -n 1.

PRJ-40098,
PMTR-84200

Security Gateway

UPDATE:

  • Added a new global parameter "fw_conn_double_error_allow_print " to enable/disable printing double connection error message to the log. When disabled, the Security Gateway will still drop a new connection if it is already recorded in the connection table, but there will be no error logs.

  • Added a new global parameter "fw_conn_double_error_count" to count how many times the error occurred.

PRJ-40459,
PMTR-84535

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, the FWK process may unexpectedly exit because of a memory allocation issue on the Security Gateway.

PRJ-38591,
PMTR-79658

Security Gateway

In a cluster environment, an ICAP implied rule may not be enforced after policy installation.

PRJ-35393,
PRHF-14804

Security Gateway

It may not be possible to load specific sites. The Security Gateways drops the traffic from those web servers with "Reason: PSL Drop: MUX_PASSIVE".

PRJ-39640,
PRHF-23835

Security Gateway

When running the "g_fw monitor" command (Global Firewall Monitor), the traffic capture outputs can be created successfully but cannot be merged.

Refer to sk179431.

PRJ-41091,
PRJ-34903

Security Gateway

A kernel crash may occur during system shutdown when PIM is enabled.

PRJ-39927,
PRHF-23895

Security Gateway

When Anti-Virus Blade is enabled, the Security Gateway may crash multiple times with core dump files.

PRJ-41030,
PRHF-24958

Security Gateway

Topology auto update may fail because of a too long interface name.

PRJ-41033,
PRHF-24959

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may run out of memory when retrieving topology.

PRJ-37210,
MBS-15377

Security Gateway

During a failover, BGP session may be re-established due to equal connection timers between two Security Gateways.