List of All Resolved Issues and New Features in R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator

 

Review the Important Notes section before installing a new Take.

ID

Product

Description

Take 90

Released on 12 November 2024

Take 90 - New Functionality

 

PRJ-56704,
PMTR-102912

Security Management

NEW: Added a new Management API command which displays API usage statistics - "api stats" . It can be run on the Security Management Server or Multi-Domain Security Management Server. For detailed usage instructions, run "api -h".

PRJ-56818,
AAD-1761

VPN

NEW: Local SCV settings can be customized by Security Gateway when creating a $FWDIR/conf/local.scv_<GW NAME> file, otherwise the settings fall back to the standard local.scv configuration.

Take 90 - Improvements and Resolved Issues

 

PRJ-56248,

PMTR-106894

SmartConsole

UPDATE: Resolved CVE-2024-3596 - Blast-RADIUS attacks. Fix for Remote Access VPN and login to SmartConsole, Mobile Access and Identity Awareness Captive Portal. Refer to sk182516.

PRJ-56177,
PMTR-106774

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Apache HTTPD version was updated from 2.4.55 to 2.4.61 to fix: CVE-2023-31122, CVE-2023-43622, CVE-2024-36387, CVE-2024-38473, CVE-2024-38474, CVE-2024-38475, CVE-2024-38476, CVE-2024-38477, CVE-2024-39573.

PRJ-56882,
PMTR-106858

Security Management

UPDATE: JRE is updated from version 8.0_8.21 to version 8.0_8.26.

PRJ-55661,
PMTR-105539

Security Management

UPDATE: The "set threat-exception" Management API command now includes the "protection-or-site" parameter. When specified, this parameter adds new values to the existing list of protections or sites, instead of overwriting the current entries.

PRJ-56611,
PMTR-108410

Logging

UPDATE: Added a count of Session and Connection logs to the "cpstat" command output.

PRJ-47655,
PRHF-29103

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added ability to increase/decrease DNS cache table size.

PRJ-51951,
PRHF-31203

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added support for log rotation in the avi_del_tmp_files.elg files. Refer to sk113241.

PRJ-56698

SD-WAN

UPDATE: Improved the performance and scalability in SD-WAN Monitoring.

PRJ-48031,
PRHF-29471

Threat Emulation

UPDATE: The maximum size for files uploaded to Threat Emulation can now be configured using the Threat Emulation API. Set the "max_api_request_data_size" attribute to specify the new limit.

PRJ-49053,
PRHF-30097

Identity Awareness

UPDATE: Identity Collector OIDs for SNMP queries are now available in both $CPDIR/lib/snmp/chkpnt.mib and $FWDIR/conf/identity_server.cps locations.

PRJ-57065,
PRHF-34509

SecureXL

UPDATE:

  • Improved debugging in the Security Gateway to identify problematic hosts when resolving their next-hop IP addresses.

  • The custom ADP queue size configuration now persists after rebooting the Security Gateway. The relevant global parameters are located in the $PPKDIR/conf/adpkern.conf file:

    • "adp_nh_total_max_arp_qents"

    • "adp_nh_local_max_arp_qents"

PRJ-56483,
PMTR-107320

SecureXL

UPDATE: Improved throughput of GRE tunnels configured on the ports of the 100G Acceleration Card.

PRJ-57757,

PRJ-58096,

ODU-2107,

ODU-2083

Automatic Updates - Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: New features and improvements are released in Take 121 and Take 123 via self-updatable package. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-57327,
ODU-1979

Automatic Updates - HCP

UPDATE: Added Update 19 of HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release. Refer to sk171436.

PRJ-57439,
ODU-1971

Automatic Updates - Threat Extraction

UPDATE: Added Update 15 of Threat Extraction Engine. Refer to sk165832.

PRJ-57705,
ODU-2027

Automatic Updates - CPView

UPDATE: Added Take 97 of CPotelcol (OpenTelemetry Collector) Release Updates. Refer to sk180522.

PRJ-57709,
ODU-1995

Automatic Updates - CPView

UPDATE: Added Take 40 of CPviewExporter Release Updates. Refer to sk180521.

PRJ-56509,
PMTR-106245

Security Management

In some scenarios, the Security Management Server upgrade fails with "creating default objects and restarting services" during the import phase.

  • The fix will only be applied if the upgrade to this Jumbo Hotfix Take is done using a Blink image or via the Advanced Upgrade method.

PRJ-56165,
PMTR-106542

Security Management

In some scenarios, the "set-exception-group applied-threat-rules.position" Management API command may add the exception group to an incorrect position.

PRJ-53260,
PRHF-32595

Security Management

When exporting a policy to a CSV file, the process fails silently if any rule within the policy has a name or comment in UID format. No clear error message is provided to indicate the cause of the failure.

PRJ-56614,
PRHF-35520

Security Management

An administrator whose authentication method was changed from "Check Point Password" to a different method in R77.X can still log in using their original Check Point password.

PRJ-50036,
PRHF-30712

Security Management

The "show-domains" Management API command may return partially deleted domains among the results.

PRJ-55669,
PRHF-34447

Security Management

Adding a host object to a network group using the "set-host" Management API command may generate large redundant audit logs.

PRJ-52760,
PRHF-32246

Security Management

Audit logs may not be generated when changes are made to an inline (shared) layer that appears multiple times within the same policy.

PRJ-56763,
PMTR-105923

Security Management

SmartConsole may get disconnected when installing a policy on more than five hundred targets.

PRJ-57073,
PRHF-35818

Security Management

In rare scenarios, when exporting policy hitcounts to CSV format, the "Hitcount" column may appear blank in the exported file.

PRJ-55832,
PRHF-34199

Security Management

Global Policy Reassignment may fail with an "An internal error has occurred" message when a custom IPS package is used or was previously used in the system.

PRJ-54296,
PRHF-25950

Security Management

The Database Installation progress bar may not update during task execution.

PRJ-56028,
PRHF-35019

Security Management

When exporting a policy to CSV with hitcount enabled, if the hitcount timeframe is set to anything other than "All", the "Hitcount" column in the CSV file may appear blank.

PRJ-55690,
PRHF-34236

Security Management

Searching for a Data Center asset IP address in the policy may not return results.

PRJ-52454,
PRHF-28597

Security Management

In some scenarios, Access Control policy verification is stuck at 40 percent.

PRJ-46463,
PRHF-28817

Security Management

In some scenarios, policy installation using Management API with the "prepare-only" parameter set to "true" may fail with an "internal error" message.

PRJ-46235,
PRHF-28814

Security Management

Changing the main URL of the UserCheck Portal using the "set simple-gateway" Management API command fails with "DNS failed to resolve the hostname: gateway name" Executed command failed. Changes are discarded".

PRJ-54720,
PRHF-33889

Security Management

In rare scenarios, when Application Control blade is enabled, cloning a policy may fail due to timeout.

PRJ-54659,
PRHF-33941

Security Management

Several Management API commands, such as "show-package" and "install-policy", may fail if running them after the deletion of a cluster member.

PRJ-52757,
PMTR-99312

Multi-Domain Security Management

Enabling IPS on Multi-Domain Security Management Server may cause Threat Prevention policy installations to fail due to legacy IPS multi-profile incompatibility.

PRJ-56541,
PRHF-34752

Multi-Domain Security Management

In some scenarios, in a Multi-Domain Security Management environment, the Hit Count retention mechanism may not remove the Hit Count data from all the Domains.

PRJ-55787,
PRHF-34686

Multi-Domain Security Management

Global Domain Assignment fails with an "Internal Error" message when performed on a Multi-Domain Security Management Server containing over 32,000 revisions.

PRJ-55705,
PRHF-34013

Multi-Domain Security Management

In rare scenarios, objects are missing from the Gateways & Servers view on the Multi-Domain Security Management level. Refer to sk182641.

PRJ-53994,
PRHF-33263

Multi-Domain Security Management

In some scenarios, Domain deletion may fail with a "delete domain failed: null" message.

PRJ-55932,
PRHF-34218

Multi-Domain Security Management

In rare scenarios, login to a Domain from the System Domain in Smart Console fails with "Login to the Domain domainName failed. Try again, or connect directly to the Domain using its IP addressdomainIp".

PRJ-56531,
PRHF-35418

Multi-Domain Security Management

The Multi-Domain Security Management Server experiences high CPU usage when communicating with the Multi-Domain Log Server. And the cpm.elg log prints the "You have reached the maximum number of active session" error. Refer to sk182738.

PRJ-56712,
PRHF-35700

Multi-Domain Security Management

In some scenarios, cpmiquerybin core files may appear in /var/log/dump/usermode/ on the Security Management Server.

PRJ-47879,
PRHF-24029

SmartConsole

The "show lsm-cluster" Management API command fails with a "Null Pointer exception: null" message if the "membersNetworkOverride" field is empty.

PRJ-57309,
MCFG-666

SmartConsole

SmartConsole fails to connect with "Unable to connect to server. Server is initializing". Refer to sk182507.

PRJ-57421,
PMTR-107206

SmartConsole

In some scenarios, opening new tab in SmartConsole Logging & Monitoring tab fails with "HTTP error 500 - problem accessing smartview/embedded. Reason: Server Error". Refer to sk182732.

PRJ-50432,
PRHF-30878

Logging

In rare scenarios, CPU consumption on the Security Management Server is high and logs are not displayed.

PRJ-51694,
PRHF-31777

Logging

In some scenarios, after removing an existing Log Exporter instance, the creation of a new instance appears successful in SmartConsole. However, the new Log Exporter object is not actually generated.

PRJ-56644,
PMTR-107570

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, the FWK process may unexpectedly exit when the IPS / Application Control / Anti-Virus / Anti-Bot blade is active and the HyperFlow feature is enabled.

PRJ-56732,
PMTR-107546

Security Gateway

The "asg monitor" command may show the Security Gateway in the "during upgrade" state although a major downgrade is complete.

PRJ-54070,
PRHF-33254

Security Gateway

Changing the NAT settings of a host using the "set-host" Management API command succeeds but has no effect unless both the "ipv4-address" and "ipv6-address" parameters are set.

PRJ-56701,
PRHF-35624

Security Gateway

Anti-Spoofing may drop IPv6 traffic that arrives at an interface with an IPv6 address configured. Refer to sk182725.

PRJ-57351,
PRJ-57352

Security Gateway

When SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) is enabled and using Passive/Active Streaming with QoS, the Security Gateway may incorrectly drop some traffic.

PRJ-57254,
PMTR-107381

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, the Security Gateway does not free some packets causing a memory leak.

PRJ-54119,
PRHF-33299

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, the FWK process may exit when cluster connection synchronization fails.

PRJ-56722,
PMTR-107648

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may crash during large memory allocation operations in specific applications.

PRJ-57371,
PMTR-97905

Security Gateway

When adding a new Virtual System, a CPD core dump file may be generated.

PRJ-53810,
PRHF-33037

Security Gateway

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

PRJ-58078,

PMTR-109857

Security Gateway

Traffic through specific interfaces is dropped when the QoS blade is active and "ISP redundancy-LS" is configured. Refer to sk182807.

PRJ-57097,

PRHF-36117

SD-WAN

In a rare scenario, when SD-WAN transport is incorrectly marked as "UP" despite its underlying ISP interface is "DOWN", traffic fails to reach the remote peer because of incorrect routing decisions.

PRJ-57115,
PRHF-31189

Threat Prevention

Threat Prevention policy installation may fail because of invalid JSON format in the IoC feed feature configuration file. Refer to sk181650.

PRJ-57667,
PMTR-100232

Threat Prevention

The Threat Prevention policy installation may fail when installing from R81.20 SmartConsole on R80.x Security Gateway.

PRJ-55888,
PMTR-106443

Threat Prevention

In some scenarios, when loading large IoC IP feeds, policy installation may fail with "Installation failed. Reason: Policy install commit function was unsuccessful due to timeout" because of a large IP addresses list.

PRJ-55377,
PRHF-33771

Threat Prevention

In some scenarios, the TPD daemon may cause high CPU usage because of a large amount of logs.

PRJ-56328,
MBS-18307

Threat Prevention

In a rare scenario, the Security Gateway may crash during traffic inspection when holding a connection.

PRJ-50243,
PMTR-83242

Threat Prevention

In a rare scenario, Anti-Bot and Anti-Virus packages may be seen as not updated in SmartConsole, even though the packages are updated.

PRJ-57006,

PRHF-35823

Threat Prevention

In some scenarios, when Zero Phishing is enabled, kernel crash may occur.

PRJ-53590,
PRHF-32655

Identity Awareness

In Azure Active Directory, access role assignment only considers a user's first 100 group memberships. Any groups beyond this limit are disregarded when determining user access roles.

PRJ-56360,
PMTR-100177

Application Control

The fwk.elg file may be flooded with the "DNS_DATA_SOURCE failed on context 201, executing context 366 exception" messages.

PRJ-54431,
PRHF-33644

IPS

In a rare scenario, when IPS is enabled and logging on a rule that involves IPS is enabled, physical memory usage may rapidly increase.

PRJ-56624,

PMTR-107215

IPS

IPS may drop an IPv6 TCP local connection.

PRJ-53833,
PRHF-33038

Anti-Virus

When Anti-Virus is enabled, in a rare scenario, a memory leak in the FWK process may occur on the Security Gateway.

PRJ-56717,
PMTR-107773

Anti-Virus

High volumes of simultaneous requests for the same domain or URL may cause Anti-Virus blades to put excessive load on the RAD daemon, leading to increased latency.

PRJ-56042,
PRHF-34907

Anti-Virus

In some scenarios, the Anti-Virus Blade logs on a VSX Gateway may display an incorrect origin IP address.

PRJ-55984,

PRHF-36838,

PRHF-35476

Anti-Virus

Anti-Virus may execute unnecessary load_sigs when loading external IoC feeds.

PRJ-58112,

PMTR-102962

ClusterXL

VSX Cluster Members with VLAN interfaces change their cluster state to "Down" and "Active!" after installing the R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 89. Refer to sk182819.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-56599,
PMTR-107557,PRHF-35772

SecureXL

IPX traffic over the interface in Bridge Mode working in SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) may be dropped. Refer to sk182623.

PRJ-56480,
PMTR-107271

SecureXL

In some scenarios, the VSX cluster can take extra time to boot up and activate the Virtual Systems.

PRJ-57488,
PMTR-105824

SecureXL

When working with Jumbo Frames in SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) on Quantum Force 9000 series appliances, incorrect memory allocation calculations may cause intermittent link failures.

PRJ-57430,
PRHF-36137

SecureXL

When SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) is enabled and running ESP traffic, packet loss may occur and the "fwconn_key_init_links failed" error is printed. Refer sk182775.

PRJ-56828,
PMTR-107903

SecureXL

The USIM process may occur if CPView stats are collected during the "cpstop" operation for VSX.

PRJ-57001,
PMTR-108133,

PRJ-57252,
PMTR-102529,

PRJ-57250,
PMTR-98868

SecureXL

In some scenarios, the Security Gateway may crash when SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) is enabled.

PRJ-57464,
PRJ-57428

SecureXL

In some scenarios during low TCP traffic, there is high CPU usage when SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) is enabled.

PRJ-57614,
PMTR-109276

SecureXL

The USIM process may unexpectedly exit when these parameters are enabled in the $PPKDIR/conf/simkern.conf file:

  • "thesim_top_conns_enable" - the tracking of the top connections.

  • "sim_top_proto_enable" - the tracking of the top protocols.

PRJ-56945,
PRHF-35953

SecureXL

The USIM process exits when attempting to delete an IP address from an empty deny list if that IP address exists in any other deny lists (including the regular deny list or those using IoC feeds).

PRJ-56904,
PMTR-108071

Routing

The ROUTED daemon may exit with a core dump during a BGP or OSPF restart.

PRJ-56525,
PMTR-101893

Routing

In a ClusterXL environment, a race condition may occur when BGP Graceful Restart is incorrectly configured. If the feature is enabled for some peers but not others, it may lead to permanent loss of network routes.

PRJ-49210,
PRHF-30241

VPN

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections may frequently disconnect when network traffic is routed through a combination of medium path, Quality of Service (QoS) controls, and VPN.

PRJ-52893,
PMTR-100703

VPN

The FWK process may exit when Monitor mode is enabled on one of the interfaces.

PRJ-51351,
PRHF-31438

VPN

Remote Access VPN connections in Maestro environments may be dropped with the "out-of-state" reason.

PRJ-50157,

PMTR-93643

VPN

When working with iOS devices, after establishing a VPN connection and subsequently disconnecting devices, the "vpn tu tlist" command may display an incorrect device connection status, indicating that a device is still connected.

PRJ-55887,
PMTR-106172

VSX

Deleting a Virtual System ID (VSID) that does not exist may trigger the "cpstop" command. Stopping all Check Point services on VS0 can disrupt the entire VSX environment.

PRJ-57814,
PRHF-17665

VSX

Multi-Queue configuration does not survive reboot on VSX. Refer to sk173950.

PRJ-56480,

PMTR-107271

VSX

In some scenarios, the VSX cluster can take extra time to boot up and activate the Virtual Systems.

PRJ-52908,
PRHF-32420

Gaia OS

In some scenarios when MDPS is enabled, the "Loading kernel module for a network device with CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev-eth7 instead" message appears in /var/log/messages.

PRJ-54462,
PRHF-33758

Gaia OS

Traffic from a Host behind a Virtual System in a VSX Cluster / Scalable Platform Security Group in the VSX mode does not reach the destination. Refer to sk180441.

PRJ-55374,
PRHF-34122

Gaia OS

Running the "snmpwalk" command on OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.2620.1.6.23 causes snmpwalk on OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2620.1.6.7.6.1 to show wrong output. Refer to sk182315.

PRJ-55306,
PRHF-32694

Gaia OS

The "cpviewd: unable to read from gpio_nuvoton driver module. snmpd: unable to read from gpio_nuvoton driver module" messages may be printed in /var/log/messages.

PRJ-56121,
PRHF-35200

Gaia OS

The "Unable to connect to the server, Press OK to reconnect" error is displayed when opening the Network Interfaces tab in the Gaia Portal. Refer to sk182560.

PRJ-56054,
PRHF-35042

Gaia OS

Adding multiple VPN tunnels via Clish in Transaction Mode fails, while adding them individually succeeds.

PRJ-56874,
EPS-57790

Harmony Endpoint

During patch deployment in Posture Management, attempting to patch multiple systems for a specific application using the "Group By Application" option fails with the "Failed to Start Patching Process" error.

PRJ-57132,
PMTR-105660

Harmony Endpoint

The $UEPMDIR/engine/uepm-jms-data directory size can increase because queued requests get accumulated on the Server.

PRJ-55684,
PRHF-34515

Smart-1 Cloud

When creating multiple Interoperable Devices with dynamic IP addresses, the duplicate IP addresses may be assigned to Interoperable Devices. Refer to sk181834.

PRJ-44697,
PRHF-27834

Scalable Platforms

When running the "asg resource" command, the SSD overall health check is displayed as "PASSED" with the "Unknown_Attribute on Member X_XX is below/getting towards low threshold (val: 0/ thresh: 0)" warning. The issue is cosmetic only.

PRJ-56368,
MBS-18304

Scalable Platforms

The VSX Gateway may cause traffic interruption when SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) is enabled on systems with multiple physical interfaces.

PRJ-56969,
PRJ-56967

Scalable Platforms

After upgrade on Quantum Maestro and Scalable Chassis, when working in SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK), policy installation may fail.

PRJ-55429,
PRHF-34170

Scalable Platforms

Disabling the Maestro Fastforward feature may result in an error.

PRJ-48867,
PMTR-87890

Scalable Platforms

Using Image Cloning when the same VMAC feature is enabled may cause a boot loop.

PRJ-46194,
PRHF-28141

Scalable Platforms

In a Maestro environment, when MDPS is enabled, the "asg if --diag" command reports the "no files matched glob pattern "/sys/class/net/BPEth*/operstate" error.

PRJ-56460

IoT Protect

Nano-Agent may not run in a Multi-Domain Security Management environment after using the "mdsstop ; mdsstart" command.

Take 89

Released on 06 October 2024 and declared as Recommended on 28 October 2024

Take 89 - New Functionality

 

PRJ-55547,
PMTR-104635

SmartProvisioning

NEW: Added a new "show-statuses" boolean parameter to the "show lsm-gateway" and "show lsm-cluster" Management API commands. When set to "true", this parameter displays the Security Policy and Provisioning Settings statuses for the LSM Security Gateway or Cluster.

PRJ-53065,
PMTR-101214

Identity Awareness

NEW: This upgrade introduces three important SAML Authentication enhancements:

  • Request Signing: Verifies authenticity of SAML requests.

  • Assertion Decryption: Protects confidentiality of user attributes.

  • Forced Re-authentication: Enables mandatory login for each session.

Administrators gain more control over security policies, while the system becomes more adaptable to various high-security environments and Identity Provider requirements.

PRJ-56237,

MBS-17283

Scalable Platforms

NEW: Added support for these features in Maestro Security Groups:

  • SecureXL User Space (UPPAK) mode. Refer to sk153832.

  • Hardware Acceleration in Acceleration cards. Refer to sk179432.

Applies only to these appliance models:

  • Quantum Force 29100, 29200

  • Quantum Force 19100, 19200

  • Quantum Force 9700, 9800

  • Quantum LightSpeed QLS250, QLS450

  • Quantum LightSpeed MLS200, MLS400

Take 89 - Improvements and Resolved Issues

 

PRJ-52882

SD-WAN

UPDATE: When Security Management disconnects from the cloud via the Infinity Services tab in SmartConsole, agents now automatically disconnect as well. Refer to sk180557.

PRJ-54683,
PMTR-104266

Mobile Access

UPDATE: Resolved CVE-2024-31497. The Putty version used in the Mobile Access Portal Embedded SSL Network Extender application is upgraded from version 0.80 to version 0.81.

PRJ-56336,
PMTR-107058

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Resolved CVE-2024-3596 - Blast-RADIUS attacks for Gaia Portal and Gaia Clish. Refer to sk182516.

PRJ-54420,
PRHF-33584

Security Management

UPDATE: Policy installation duration with hundreds of layers is improved by approximately 30%.

PRJ-50774,
PRHF-30910

Logging

UPDATE: Port 8211 now accepts connections with the cipher ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384.

PRJ-54499,
PRHF-33612

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Optimized the Generic Data Center JSON file processing on the Security Gateways to improve performance when handling large numbers of IP ranges.

PRJ-54138,
PMTR-103001

SSL Inspection

UPDATE: Added a log for connections rejected because of short Server certificate public key size (RSA 1024 bits or less, ECDSA 256 bits or less).

PRJ-55747,
PMTR-104855

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: Added the "trackSettings.forensics" parameter to the "threat-rule" Management API command to enable and disable the "forensics" option in the "Track" column. Syntax example: "mgmt_cli add threat-rule layer 'Standard Threat Prevention' position 1 track-settings.forensics false -r true".

PRJ-52347,
PMTR-98920

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: It is now possible to add more than fourteen members per site in a Single Site topology.

PRJ-56681,

PRJ-57027,

PRJ-57263,

ODU-2035,

ODU-2019,

ODU-1955

Automatic Updates - Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: New features and improvements are released in Take 118, Take 119, Take 120 via self-updatable package. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-51503,
PRHF-31420

Security Management

In rare scenarios, an upgrade of a Multi-Domain Security Management Server fails with "Cancelled due to a failure in other domain" in the upgrade report.

  • The fix will only be applied if the upgrade to this Jumbo Hotfix Take is done using a Blink image or via the Advanced Upgrade method.

PRJ-56003,
PRHF-34871

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the FWM process on the Security Management Server may unexpectedly exit, creating a core dump file.

PRJ-55934,
PRHF-34584

Security Management

In rare scenarios, login to SmartConsole fails with a timeout.

PRJ-55332,
PRHF-34049

Security Management

If the $FWDIR/conf/fwm.adtlog file is not valid, the FWM process leaves unused file descriptors, which may affect the Security Management Server performance.

PRJ-55447,
PRHF-33832

Security Management

If any single Data Center fails to register, the registration of all Data Center assets to the Security Management Server also fails.

PRJ-55929,
PRHF-34912

Security Management

The Revisions Purge process may stall if initiated after restarting the Security Management Server or Multi-Domain Security Management Server because of remnants of a previously interrupted Revisions Purge operation.

PRJ-56153,
PRHF-35121

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the Revisions tab in SmartConsole shows "Error retrieving results".

PRJ-56212,
PRHF-35143

Security Management

The database size on the Secondary Management Server increases if dbedit is used without making or saving any changes. Refer to sk182519.

PRJ-55798,
PRHF-34671

Security Management

SmartConsole may close during login because of repeated attempts to discard a non-existent work session.

PRJ-55907,
PRHF-34904

Security Management

In rare scenarios, revert to a Database Revision may get stuck on 60% and eventually fail.

PRJ-55444,
PRHF-34146

Security Management

Accelerated Policy installation may get stuck with the "Policy installation (queued)" status.

PRJ-55335,
PRHF-33993

Security Management

In rare scenarios, login to SmartView web application using the Domain IP address or Domain name fails.

PRJ-52058,
PRHF-31798

Security Management

In a Management High Availability environment, the Standby Security Management Server may not update the "Installation date" during policy installation on Security Gateways/Clusters.

PRJ-54734,

PRHF-33948

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the CPD process may unexpectedly exit and create a core dump file.

PRJ-57031,

PRHF-30884

Security Management

Log queries fail with the error "Problems have occurred during search" when Domain migration is in progress. This occurs specifically during the execution of "export-management" or "import-management" Management API commands.

PRJ-54507,
PMTR-102800

Multi-Domain Security Management

Global Domain Assignment may fail with "Internal Error", if the assigned Domain is currently Active on a different Multi-Domain Security Management Server.

PRJ-42135,
PRHF-25935

CPView

In a rare scenario, when running the CPView utility, the Security Gateway may crash.

PRJ-54064,
PMTR-102780

Logging

In rare scenarios, the CPSEMD process on the SmartEvent Server may unexpectedly exit, creating a core dump file.

PRJ-44900,
PRHF-24639

Logging

In rare scenarios, the Logs view may display unexpected blank lines or gaps in the chronological sequence of entries.

PRJ-53219,
PRHF-32587

Logging

When adding a table widget to a SmartView report:

  • The "Missed Malware Activity" and "Spyware Action" fields may not be possible to pick.

  • The "Malware Action" filter may appear twice in the picker. Refer to sk182049.

PRJ-46849,
PRJ-46579

Logging

RAD error messages may be printed to the fwk.elg file during cpstop:cpstart on the Security Gateway. The issue is cosmetic only.

PRJ-50613,
PRHF-29955

Logging

The FWD process may exit and cause issues with opening packet capture files on remote members.

PRJ-48772,
PRHF-30060

Logging

The "show logs" Management API command may show partial information for the fields with multiple values.

PRJ-46890,
PRHF-29024

Security Gateway

Incorrect value in the "fwisusfw" register causes improper CPU affinity and dynamic balancing initialization in User Space Firewall mode after an upgrade. Refer to sk182004.

PRJ-54415,
PRHF-33710

Security Gateway

In a VSX Cluster environment, the CPVIEWD daemon may cause a high CPU.

PRJ-55579,
PMTR-104837

Security Gateway

A buffer overflow may occur in the HTTP flow, affecting the FWK process.

PRJ-45951,
PRHF-28371

Security Gateway

During policy installation, Rule Base internal error drops may be shown in the SmartConsole logs. Logs related to "dynobjs" may be printed in Messages.

PRJ-57108,

PRHF-36116

Security Gateway

Memory leak may occur in SecureXL templates. Refer to sk182648.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-55803,
PRHF-34726

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may fail to resolve external Network Feeds whose URL contains a port number (such as "https://example.com:8080/feed.csv". Refer to sk182684.

PRJ-52411,
PRHF-31919

Security Gateway

The PDPD process memory consumption may be high when using an Azure AD object.

PRJ-53636,
PMTR-101538

Security Gateway

In a Maestro Security Group using VSX mode with diverse appliance models and active dynamic balancing, DSD pnotes may appear on member devices and cause a failover from an SMO member. This occurs when the default number of FWK instances on these members differs from the SMO default setting.

PRJ-48105,
PRHF-29616

Security Gateway

Outages may occur when the FWD process exits or restarts and Security Group member goes down triggering Scalable Chassis failover.

PRJ-53543,
PRHF-32797

Threat Prevention

In some scenarios, an external IoC may not be enforced on Sub-domains of a Domain that is listed in the feed.

PRJ-56096,
PMTR-106568

Threat Prevention

SSH Deep Packet Inspection (SSH DPI) fails to start inspection if IPS is enabled while all other Threat Prevention products are disabled.

PRJ-55989,
PMTR-104285

Threat Prevention

In a rare scenario, Threat Prevention policy installation may fail after an over-the-air (OTA) package update of TP_CONF_SERVICE. Refer to sk182572.

PRJ-55763,

PMTR-104381

Threat Prevention

In rare scenarios, policy installation may fail after an upgrade of a VSX Gateway.

PRJ-46349,
PRHF-27721

Threat Emulation

The ICAP client may send the file name under "Content-Disposition" in an unsupported format written as "filename*=" instead of "filename=", and the Threat Emulation blade does not process such files.

PRJ-51492,
PRHF-31582

Threat Emulation

When using ICAP, filename handling occasionally fails. As a result, the Threat Emulation Blade may not be able to process this specific file.

PRJ-51606,
PMTR-98865

Identity Awareness

In a rare scenario, the PDPD process on Security Gateway with configured Identity Broker may become unresponsive while processing identity updates. Refer to sk182635.

PRJ-54326,
PRHF-33541

Identity Awareness

In rare scenarios, while handling new connection, the PDPD process can become unresponsive. Refer to sk182220.

PRJ-55437,
PRHF-31271

Application Control

APPI tenant restriction may not function as expected when the application is not included in the policy or when no extended logging is enabled.

PRJ-55460,
PRHF-34098

URL Filtering

In scenarios where there is a heavy load on the machine, the RAD queue can fill up and get clogged by unhandled requests, causing an outage and traffic disruption.

PRJ-54192

PRHF-31001

Anti-Bot

The Anti-Bot Blade may generate error logs with the "Failed to Decrypt CP Site Response" reason. Refer to sk182494.

PRJ-54445,
PMTR-103889

Mobile Access

HTTPS access to the Mobile Access Portal may be down.

PRJ-56222,
PRHF-35271

Mobile Access

The "citrixStrictTicketEnforcement" parameter set in the configuration file may not work as expected.

PRJ-55634,
PRHF-27989

ClusterXL

After modifying a bond, the Monitored VLANs may disappear. Refer to sk180724.

PRJ-55955,
PMTR-105602

SecureXL

The Security Gateway may crash in Bridge mode or in Non-Bridge mode when the number of MAC addresses in its network interface card's table exceeds the hardware capacity limit.

PRJ-56061,
PRHF-34672

SecureXL

When attempting to set a MAC address for a VXLAN interface using Clish, Clish displays a warning message and prevents the MAC address from being set.

PRJ-56367,

PRHF-35417

SecureXL

After installation with Gaia Fast Deployment (Blink), SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) becomes disabled.

PRJ-56011,
PRHF-34987

SecureXL

In a rare scenario, a memory leak in the adp kernel module may occur during multicast routing assert failures.

PRJ-51111,
PMTR-97788

SecureXL

SYN Defender configuration in Inspection Settings on the Security Management Server may not be applied on Accelerated Policy installation.

PRJ-56433,
PMTR-107256

Routing

Dynamic Routing outage in a Security Group during the Zero Downtime (MVC) Upgrade to R81.20, during the Downgrade from R81.20, or during the installation / uninstall of the R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator. Refer to sk182556.

PRJ-54408,
PRHF-33153

Routing

A multicast outage may occur after a failover triggered by incomplete processing of cluster synchronization messages.

PRJ-53175,
PMTR-101331

Routing

Graceful Restart may end prematurely in OSPF NSSA areas.

PRJ-53828,
PMTR-95640

Routing

A multicast outage may occur during failovers caused by interface flaps.

PRJ-53315,
PMTR-101682

VPN

The "vpn tu tlist" command may take a long time to execute, depending on the number of disconnected tunnels.

PRJ-50090,
PMTR-90101

VPN

By default, the VPN permanent tunnel is configured to use "tunnel test" instead of "DPD". This configuration may cause inaccurate permanent tunnel status reporting when connecting to third-party devices.

PRJ-54547,
PMTR-104228

VPN

BGP peering over Route-based VPN may fail because Azure cluster members use their own IP address as source instead of the Virtual IP address, preventing proper routing protocol establishment.

PRJ-56673,

PRHF-35637

VSX

Memory corruption occurs when a bond interface is configured, leading to a Security Gateway crash with a vmcore or a boot loop.

PRJ-57426,

PRHF-36390

Scalable Platforms

In a Maestro environment with the "vpn_sync_to_all" parameter enabled, connection going through a Site to Site VPN to a remote location, may be dropped with "First packet isn't SYN".

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-53310,
PMTR-95877

Scalable Platforms

In Quantum Maestro/Scalable Chassis environments, when using the Threat Prevention Blade in the Security Group, the entitlement_status_collector_db.C files may be inconsistent between the Security Group Members.

PRJ-51192,
PRHF-29670

Scalable Platforms

Security Group Member in a VSX environment is in a boot loop after creating a new Virtual System with a WRP interface. Refer to sk182476.

PRJ-56115

IoT Protect

After a Multi-Domain Security Management Server upgrade, the Domain configuration file iot-on-board.conf is not saved.

Take 84

Released on 5 September 2024 and declared as Recommended on 18 September 2024

Take 84 - Improvements and Resolved Issues

 

PRJ-56890,

PRHF-34283

Security Management

  • In some scenarios, the FWM process may unexpectedly exit and generate a core dump every few days, when the Compliance Blade is enabled and the scheduled full scan is not configured according to sk182507.

  • More core dumps may be generated after following the instructions in Section 1, refer to Section 2 in sk182507.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-56890,

PRHF-34283

Logging

Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM) rules may not be triggered after a Source Block automatic reaction is configured.

PRJ-57070,

SDWANGW-3025

SD-WAN

When working in Firewall Kernel Space Mode (KSFW), SD-WAN policy installation may fail with “Failed to enforce new policy. Reason: Failed to lower support_fec flag(Return code: 10)”.

PRJ-56932

CloudGuard Network

After an upgrade, the incorrect status of the CloudGuard Controller is displayed in SmartConsole: "Error: 'CloudGuard Controller' is not responding. Verify that 'CloudGuard Controller' is installed on the gateway". Refer to sk182622.

Take 79

Released on 19 August 2024

Take 79 - New Functionality

 

PRJ-53640,

PMTR-102064

Security Management

NEW: Added the ability to unset a persistent environment variable, using the "-u" flag for the override_server_setting.sh script introduced in sk165938. Upon execution, the specified property is now removed from the $MDS_FWDIR/conf/cpmEnvVars.conf file.

PRJ-54715,
PMTR-103677

Security Management

NEW: Automatic refresh of SmartConsole views after Global Policy Assignment on a Multi-Domain Security Management Server. To enable this ability, refer to sk182307.

PRJ-53464

SD-WAN

NEW:

  • Added ARP Next-Hop prober to enhance support for additional network topologies.

  • Introduced HTTP prober to reflect real-time Web Access metrics.

  • Implemented Link Aggregation mode proportional to Download and Upload bandwidth.

  • Administrators are now able to override SD-WAN interface Circuit configuration.

  • Integrated Forward Error Correction to ensure successful traffic delivery by adding error correction code packets to the Overlay packet stream.

  • Introduced Dynamic Objects (SD-WAN Internet, My VPN Domain, and Peer VPN Domain) to better represent Overlay and Internet address spaces.

  • Added administrator control for Symmetric Packet Return, forcing Ingress Traffic to be replied on the same ISP.

  • Enabled SD-WAN Overlay establishment across different Domains using Global VPN Community (MDS).

  • Allowed SD-WAN Overlay to operate on top of Route-based VPN.

  • Increased maximum Overlay size to support up to 500 Security Gateways.

  • Improved accuracy of SD-WAN decision-making during policy installation.

  • Enabled setup of IPv4 SD-WAN overlay when non-SD-WAN IPv6 interfaces are configured.

PRJ-53477,
CLUS-1936

Scalable Platforms

NEW: Added Generic Data Center support for Quantum Maestro environments.

Take 79 - Improvements and Resolved Issues

 

PRJ-50857,
PMTR-97312

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Apache HTTPD version was updated from 2.4.55 to 2.4.58 to fix CVE-2023-31122 and CVE-2023-43622.

PRJ-50924,

PMTR-97400

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Deprecated RC2-CBC cipher for SIC in OpenSSL.

PRJ-55316,
PMTR-104507

Gaia OS

UPDATE: A patch on top of OpenSSL 1.1.1w to fix CVE-2024-2511. Refer to sk182320.

PRJ-56226,

PMTR-106852

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Added a defense mechanism against malicious code injections through special HTTP requests. Resolved CVE-2024-24914. Refer to sk182743.

PRJ-54496,
PMTR-104054

Security Management

UPDATE: JRE is updated from version 8.0_8.10 to version 8.0_8.21.

PRJ-50381,
PRHF-30774

Security Management

UPDATE: Various Web Portals on the Security Management Server (for example, Web SmartConsole, SmartView) no longer accept HTTPS connections to ports 443 and 19009 with specific TLS 1.2 ciphers. Refer to sk181879.

PRJ-53605,
PMTR-102275

Security Management

UPDATE: Modified the content of the https://<ip_adress>/license_management/ page.

PRJ-53954,
PMTR-103052

Security Management

UPDATE: Changed the hardware name "1570R Appliances" to "1570R/1575R Appliances" in the Security Gateway editor in SmartConsole and SmartProvisioning.

  • Requires R81.20 SmartConsole Build 656 or higher.

PRJ-52932,
PRHF-32414

Security Management

UPDATE: When deleting a Secondary Multi-Domain Security Management Server, SmartConsole now shows an "After MDS '<MDS name>' is deleted, you should delete the Secondary Domain Servers from the Domains and revoke their certificates" message.

PRJ-52404,

PMTR-99617

Security Management

UPDATE: Added SHA256 fingerprints to certificate objects to mitigate the risk of hash collisions and enhance trust when utilizing the fingerprint, encoded with English words, as a verification mechanism.

PRJ-52954,
PMTR-101078

Logging

UPDATE: Enhanced the Access Control log for "Accept" actions with initial matched layers of "IoT" or "Playblocks":

The "Layer Name" field now shows the admin-configured layer, alongside Rule Name and Rule Number, allowing administrators to view their preferred match layer rather than defaulting to the first matched layer or inline rule. This change improves visibility into the specific security policy components responsible for accepting traffic.

PRJ-55290,

PMTR-104620

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Optimized Hyperflow wake-up process on smaller appliances (up to 32 cores) now uses only two cores initially, reducing resource contention and improving stability during Elephant Flows.

PRJ-55428,
PMTR-104574

Security Gateway

UPDATE: The severity of the debug message for cp_shmem huge page allocation failures is reduced. When huge pages are unavailable, the message now appears as a warning instead of an error. The system now falls back to using regular memory pages.

PRJ-51989,
PMTR-88361

Security Gateway

UPDATE: The performance of the thread blocker feature (sk180437) is now improved and the feature is re-enabled.

PRJ-47490,
PRHF-28566

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Implemented automatic purging of expired SIC certificates on Security Gateways to eliminate memory residues and prevent misuse.

PRJ-54341,
SNX-99

SSL Network Extender

UPDATE: SSL Network Extender is updated to version 80008409.

PRJ-53919,
PRHF-32600

URL Filtering

UPDATE: When URL Filtering operates in Background Mode and encounters an unclassified connection, instead of being approved automatically, such connection is now accepted or rejected based on Access Rule Base execution, and listed under the "unknown" category.

PRJ-51532,
PMTR-97036

Mobile Access

UPDATE: The Mobile Access Portal is no longer compatible with the Chrome browser on iOS and Android mobile devices.

PRJ-53587

Gaia OS

UPDATE: The "show asset" and "show lom" commands now also display a sub-minor version of LOM firmware on the 9000/19000/29000 appliance lines.

PRJ-54590,
PMTR-100544

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Extended the "allowed-client" setting to enforce IP restrictions for both password and SSH key authentication methods, providing more comprehensive access control.

PRJ-54672,
PMTR-104379

VoIP

UPDATE: SIP over UDP requests and responses may be dispatched to different firewall instances when a single-direction rule is defined in the Rule Base, potentially causing returned SIP traffic to be dropped as an unknown connection. To address this, a new global parameter "sip_forward_if_needed" is introduced (disabled by default). When enabled, the Security Gateway forwards responses to the appropriate request instances. Refer to sk182667.

PRJ-55719,
PMTR-105631

VPN

UPDATE: VPN connections are now synchronized to all members of the Security Group by default. The default value of the "vpn_sync_to_all" kernel parameter is set to "1".

PRJ-53822,
PMTR-102697

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: It is no longer necessary to run the $MDS_FWDIR/scripts/alignLicensesInDB.sh script (sk181500) after the import during Security Management Database migration. The script now runs automatically after the migration.

PRJ-53101,
PMTR-101359

Scalable Platforms

UPDATE: Removed the ability to delete the "_lldp" internal user in Gaia OS to prevent traffic impact. Refer to sk182026.

PRJ-56057,

ODU-1923

Automatic Updates - HCP

UPDATE: Added Update 18 of HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release. Refer to sk171436.

PRJ-55914,
ODU-1849

Automatic Updates - CPView

UPDATE: Added Take 97 of CPotelcol (OpenTelemetry Collector) Release Updates. Refer to sk180522.

PRJ-56193,

ODU-1787

Automatic Updates - Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: New features and improvements are released in Take 114 via self-updatable package. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-55917,
ODU-1819

Automatic Updates - CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added Take 21 of Public Cloud CA Bundle. Refer to sk172188.

PRJ-50936,
PRHF-31120

Security Management

SmartConsole may freeze when selecting a client under Security Gateway object > Identity Awareness tab > RADIUS Accounting Settings.

  • Requires additional configuration and R81.20 SmartConsole Build 656 or higher. Refer to sk181630.

PRJ-53454,
PRHF-32750

Security Management

Upgrade of the Multi-Domain Security Management Server may fail with the error "Folder object not found".

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

PRJ-52045,
PRHF-31789

Security Management

In some scenarios, the Security Management Server upgrade to R81.20 fails with "java.lang.String incompatible with com.checkpoint.infrastructure.types.CPUUID" in the upgrade report. The issue occurs during the import of the User Data Domain.

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

PRJ-54005,
PRHF-33311

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the Management Server upgrade fails during the import stage with "an eclipse error has occurred enable logging on EclipseLinkExceptionHandler to see full error".

  • The fix will only be applied if the upgrade to this Jumbo Hotfix Take is done using a Blink image or via the Advanced Upgrade method.

PRJ-46788,

PRHF-29046

Security Management

In some scenarios, an upgrade of Security Management Server or Multi-Domain Security Management Server fails with the "Failed: upgrade of "DOMAIN_NAME". For more details see upgrade logs below" error in the upgrade report.

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

PRJ-52889,
PRHF-32372

Security Management

"Mapping of Data Center [xxxx] failed. Next mapping is in 300 seconds" errors in the CME logs show failed attempts to scan deleted data centers.

PRJ-45161,
PRHF-28147

Security Management

In rare scenarios, login to the Security Management Server may fail with timeout and the FWM process on the Management Server may unexpectedly exit, creating a core dump file.

PRJ-53771,
PRHF-32899

Security Management

In some scenarios, the "show-gateways-and-servers" Management API command fails with "generic_err_object_not_found" when running with "details-level full".

PRJ-53507,
PRHF-32561

Security Management

After upgrading, administrators with read/write permissions to edit Security Gateways and Clusters may lack IPS permissions and are unable to perform certain management tasks, such as enabling or disabling blades.

PRJ-52434,
PRHF-31953

Security Management

When Global Domain Assignment fails with the "More than one object named 'XXX' exists" error, not all duplicate objects are listed.

PRJ-53760,

PRHF-32936

Security Management

The "domains_tool -report" command may fail if more than sixteen host objects are defined as DNS Servers in the environment.

PRJ-49241,
PMTR-89973

Security Management

In some scenarios, the SmartTask "Before login" trigger may be executed although there was no login operation.

PRJ-52781,
PRHF-32286

Security Management

When using the "set simple-gateway" Management API command to edit interfaces, the operation is only performed on fifty interfaces at a time.

PRJ-49438,
PRHF-30400

Security Management

The UPDATE_INSPECT_FILES process of Upgrade Tools may exit with a core dump.

PRJ-52019,
PRHF-31622

Security Management

Exporting a policy that contains thousands of rules may fail when the "Hit Count" column is enabled.

PRJ-50844,
PRHF-31188

Security Management

Export of a list of objects from the Global Object Explorer fails with the "Export policy is not supported when rule name is in a format of UUID" error message.

PRJ-51121,
PRHF-31318

Security Management

In rare scenarios, if a Star VPN Community object is created, publish operations may fail.

PRJ-50755,
ACCESS-704

Security Management

Access to and from the Generic Data Center objects may not be enforced when MDPS configuration is enabled on the Security Gateway.

PRJ-52915,
PRHF-32334

Security Management

Deleting a Security Gateway object fails if there is a license attached to the Security Gateway and the Security Gateway is physically disconnected.

PRJ-54066,
PRHF-33349

Security Management

In some scenarios, users may be disconnected from SmartConsole, and an FWM process core dump is generated.

PRJ-53502,
PRHF-32764

Security Management

In some scenarios, SmartConsole may unexpectedly disconnect.

PRJ-52518,
PRHF-32065

Security Management

In rare scenarios, Access policy installation may fail with the "Installation failed. Reason: Failed to load Policy on Security Gateway" or "Operation failed, install/uninstall has been improperly terminated" messages.

PRJ-53895,
PRHF-32890

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the API status shows "Automatic Start: Disabled" even though the automatic start was not disabled manually.

PRJ-48937,
PRHF-30136

Security Management

The "set simple-cluster" Management API command with the "vpn-settings.vpn-domain" parameter succeeds, but the VPN Domain is not set.

PRJ-52778,
PRHF-32265

Security Management

Objects Explorer search fails with "Error retrieving results" when more than twenty thousand IP addresses match the search criteria.

PRJ-49057,
PRHF-30130

Security Management

In rare scenarios, publishing a session in SmartConsole fails with the "got at least one duplicate UID in requested list, duplicates UIDs: [XXX]" error.

PRJ-52850,
PRHF-32222

Security Management

Login to SmartConsole fails if the "Read_Write_All_Profile" permission profile is deleted.

PRJ-57031,

PRHF-30884

Security Management

Log queries fail with the error "Problems have occurred during search" when Domain migration is in progress. This occurs specifically during the execution of "export-management" or "import-management" Management API commands.

PRJ-55523,
PMTR-85279

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the CPD process may exit with core dumps.

PRJ-52346,
PRHF-31814

Security Management

In some scenarios, the PostgreSQL database fully utilizes disk space on the Standby Security Management Server.

PRJ-53677,

PMTR-98465

Security Management

The Management API command "get-interfaces" may return subordinate physical interfaces of a bond interface.

PRJ-51630,
PRHF-31681

Multi-Domain Security Management

In rare scenarios, login to a newly created Domain fails and the CPCA daemon has the "down" status. Refer to sk181798.

PRJ-53552,
PRHF-32881

Multi-Domain Security Management

When a Domain name (for example, "XXX") is a subset of another Domain name (for example, "XXX-YYY"), the "mdsstop" command may fail to stop a Domain named "XXX-YYY".

PRJ-52950,
PRHF-31148

Multi-Domain Security Management

In a Multi-Domain Security Management environment, there may be synchronization timeout errors, and automatic revisions purge may fail.

PRJ-55658,
PRHF-34503

Multi-Domain Security Management

In some scenarios, in a Multi-Domain Security Management environment, creating a Domain on a remote Multi-Domain Management Server may fail with "Check connectivity between Domain Servers IPs and initialize SIC manually" error.

PRJ-54514,
PRHF-33741

SmartConsole

In rare scenarios, login to SmartConsole fails.

PRJ-50695,
PRHF-31105

Logging

In some scenarios, viewing a Forensics report in Threat Hunting fails with the "Unable to load report" error. Refer to sk181800.

PRJ-54061,
PMTR-102031

Logging

In rare scenarios, empty log list may be displayed when selecting a log file to view in SmartConsole.

PRJ-54238,
PRHF-20992

Logging

Log Exporter may unexpectedly exit when using a non-RSA certificate.

PRJ-51276,
PRHF-31323

Logging

When adding a table widget to a SmartView report:

  • The "Missed Malware Activity" and "Spyware Action" fields may not be possible to pick.

  • The "Malware Action" filter may appear twice in the picker.

PRJ-51444,
PRHF-31195

Logging

The traffic field in the SmartEvent "Application and URL Filtering" report, specifically in the "High Bandwidth Applications" section, is incorrectly displaying data in petabytes (PB) instead of the expected gigabytes (GB).

PRJ-50794,
PRHF-31160

Logging

In SmartView, filtering logs by "event_type" may fail with the "Query failed" error.

PRJ-51517,
PRHF-31567

Logging

Log searches for the same time period may return more results in SmartConsole compared to SmartView.

PRJ-55512,
PRHF-34283

Logging

In some scenarios, the name of the Security Gateway is not shown in the title of the automatic reaction email, although it should be.

PRJ-50262,
PRHF-30848

Logging

In SmartView, some countries are not displayed in the countries picker.

PRJ-52941,

PRHF-32194

Logging

In the Logs view, the "TCP-other" and "UDP-other" services are displayed as generic service IDs, for example, "cp_tcp_A936BBAC_EBC3_4F18_B3CC_A63365F07477".

PRJ-54020,
PMTR-99697

Logging

In rare scenarios, Zero Phishing logs may disappear from the SmartConsole Logs view.

PRJ-53451,
PMTR-101938

Security Gateway

Even if the interface is configured with an MTU higher than 1500, the maximal MTU over CPAS is limited to 1500.

PRJ-53075,
PMTR-96269

Security Gateway

In some occasions, redundant errors appear in logs: "fw_inspect_ghtab_bl_ld_sync: invalid FW_INSPECT_GHTAB_BL_LD_SYNC_TABLE_ID".

PRJ-51970,
PMTR-99054

Security Gateway

The CPWD daemon does not restart automatically.

PRJ-51480,

PMTR-98475

Security Gateway

The RAD process exits and creates a core file on the Security Gateway.

PRJ-55423,
PRHF-33908,

PRJ-55422,

PRHF-33730,

PRJ-55424,

PRHF-33912

Security Gateway

In a multi-cloud networking environment (AWS GWLB and VMware NSX-T), the Security Gateway may crash due to memory corruption.

PRJ-54526,
PMTR-96126

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, when SecureXL User Mode is enabled, the Security Gateway drops traffic after it was processed.

PRJ-54628,
PRHF-33768

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, adding sequential IP addresses as MDPS task addresses may fail.

PRJ-51049,
PMTR-97496

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, websites that use HTTP2 protocol do not load properly.

PRJ-49902,
PRHF-30541

Security Gateway

Kernel Memory usage increases persistently each day on a Security Gateway/Security Group when CGNAT is enabled. Refer to sk182140.

PRJ-54529,
PMTR-103857

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, the Security Gateway offloads connections to SecureXL in error when the initial route lookup could not find a route for it.

PRJ-52774,
PRHF-32213

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, the FWK process may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-52647,
PRHF-31996

Internal CA

CRL fetch may fail when passing through a Security Gateway with deep inspection, even if the connection hold is quickly released. CPCA closes the connection prematurely.

PRJ-50701,
PRHF-30997

Threat Prevention

The Anti-Virus Blade fails to parse IoC feeds that contain IPv6 addresses.

PRJ-48310,
ACCESS-680

Threat Prevention

In rare scenarios, when the Anti-Virus, Threat Extraction and Threat Emulation Blades are enabled, some connections that were on hold are dropped.

PRJ-53201,
PMTR-97508

Threat Prevention

In some scenarios, policy installation and IPS package updates may take a very long time to finish and cause traffic drops.

PRJ-51341,
PRHF-29801

Identity Awareness

In some scenarios, the PEPD process may consume a high CPU because of a high rate of identity propagation. Refer to sk182588.

PRJ-46490,
PRHF-28698

Identity Awareness

Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) logs show a username after the user session is expired. Refer to sk181553.

PRJ-53249,
PRHF-32646

IPS

A connectivity issue may happen when processing a specific HTTP2 traffic.

PRJ-43104,
PMTR-87284

DLP

Multiple internal errors, including file metadata retrieval failures and parsing errors, may be printed in the DLPDA logs.

PRJ-53128,
PRHF-32438

Anti-Virus

The DLPU process may unexpectedly exit due to uninitialized memory when the Anti-Virus Blade scans files. Refer to sk182030.

PRJ-55520,
PMTR-104668

SSL Inspection

In rare scenarios, when HTTPS Inspection is enabled, the FWK process may unexpectedly exit due to memory violation.

PRJ-54641,
PMTR-90199

Mobile Access

The HTTPD process of the Mobile Access Portal may exit with a core dump file.

PRJ-51154,
PMTR-92065

Mobile Access

Web Application names column width is too narrow to fit in the Mobile Access Portal. Refer to sk181774.

PRJ-54324,

PRHF-33620

ClusterXL

In a rare scenario, the FWK process consistently exits causing failovers. Crashes may happen on both cluster members.

PRJ-54170,
PMTR-103483

ClusterXL

In rare scenarios, in a cluster environment, the CPDiag tool may crash.

PRJ-52896,
PMTR-100934

ClusterXL

In a rare scenario, after an upgrade, connections between networks may be dropped with the "First Packet isn't SYN" error.

PRJ-55307,
PMTR-104663

SecureXL

Potential kernel crash in MDPS configurations when modifying and re-adding slave interfaces to bonds in non-default virtual systems.

PRJ-55493,
PMTR-103647

SecureXL

When SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) is enabled, packets originating from the Security Gateway may not be fragmented properly.

PRJ-53481,
PMTR-101681

SecureXL

In some scenarios, when QoS blade is enabled and SecureXL works in User Mode (UPPAK), Security Gateway may crash with the "invalid data" error.

PRJ-55799,
PMTR-105097

SecureXL

When SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) is enabled, in some scenarios, a VSX Security Gateway with many Virtual Systems may crash.

PRJ-55566,
PMTR-104603

SecureXL

The USIM process may unexpectedly exit.

PRJ-54331,
PRHF-33511

SecureXL

In rare scenarios, the Security Gateway crashes when the interface goes down right before it transmits packets out.

PRJ-54428,
PMTR-102834

SecureXL

In some scenarios, the VSX Security Gateway does not initialize the Virtual System correctly when connected to a Virtual Router or Virtual Switch.

PRJ-54323,
PMTR-103651

SecureXL

In some scenarios, traffic with Passive or Active Streaming configuration may not correctly pass through a Virtual Router on a VSX Security Gateway.

PRJ-55958,
PRHF-34753

SecureXL

The duration of each "stop" and "start" API call for the LightSpeed Acceleration interfaces may take several seconds. Refer to sk182585.

PRJ-54425,
PMTR-102759

SecureXL

In some scenarios, the VSX Security Gateway may fail to properly reroute traffic originating from a Virtual Switch.

PRJ-55344,
PMTR-104736

Routing

OSPFv2 graceful restart mechanism fails on broadcast and point-to-multipoint networks due to the omission of an "IP-Address" field in the grace LSA.

PRJ-55399,
PMTR-104846

Routing

OSPFv3 NSSA may fail to re-originate Type 7 LSAs after an OSPFv3 process restart, disrupting proper route propagation.

PRJ-54603,
PMTR-104146

Routing

Routing BFD sessions using IPv6 global addresses on single-hop interfaces fail to recover after the network interface is administratively disabled and re-enabled.

PRJ-52671,
PRHF-32205

Routing

Enabling rfc1583-compatibility via Clish fails with "CLINFR0329 Invalid command:'set ospf instance default rfc1583-compatibility on".

PRJ-55016,
PMTR-104584

Gaia OS

The "fw ctl affinity" command output shows interfaces with no multi-queue, while the "mq_mng -o" command shows that multi-queue is enabled on all interfaces.

PRJ-53387,
PRHF-32742

Gaia OS

Gaia Portal operation mode options are not visible in the Editing Bond window. Refer to sk182432.

PRJ-52416,

PRHF-31929

Gaia OS

SNMP query for OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2620.1.6.7.5.1.5 (CPU utilization per CPU core) and the "cpstat os -f cpu" command may return an incorrect value. Refer to sk182447.

PRJ-51020,
PRHF-31136

VPN

Duo management reports display incorrect access source locations due to Security Gateways providing inverted IP addresses during the two-factor authentication challenge response process. Refer to sk181783.

PRJ-55293,
PMTR-103968

VPN

Configuring a Large Scale VPN (LSV) with IPv6 and establishing a VPN tunnel may cause the FWK process to exit.

PRJ-55488,
PRHF-30493

VPN

During high-frequency encryption of packets over a VPN tunnel, the Security Gateway may assign the same sequence number to multiple packets. This causes the receiving VPN peer to mistakenly identify these legitimate packets as replay attacks and drop them.

PRJ-52912,
PRHF-32348

VPN

SNMP queries show a different number of connected RA VPN users than what is shown in CPView and from CLI. RaUserState information is missing in the SNMP MIB file.

PRJ-55986,
PMTR-106469

VPN

During high-volume VPN tunnel initiations, several packets may be dropped with "encrypted packet too big".

PRJ-53940,
PRHF-32773

VPN

After running the "vpn iked disable" command, the VPND daemon does not listen on the tunnel test port instead of IKED.

PRJ-53715,
PRHF-32719

VPN

Tunnel testing fails after an upgrade. Refer to sk182267.

PRJ-54548,

PMTR-104230

Multi-Portal

Under a special routing configuration, an active Cluster member may accept portal traffic (on TCP ports 80 and 443) destined to a Standby member IP address.

PRJ-53118,
PMTR-99343

VSX

In a VSX Cluster with IPv6 enabled, after an upgrade, VS's without IPv6 address may fail to install the Access policy.

PRJ-54598,
PRHF-33572

VSX

In rare scenarios, the CPD process of the default Virtual System on a VSX Gateway (VS0) gets stuck.

PRJ-51993,

PMTR-99136

Harmony Endpoint

Upgrade failures may occur when the source server contains an existing am_top_infections_master view, as the upgrade process attempts to drop and recreate this view during the final stages of the Endpoint Server database schema update.

PRJ-53555,
PMTR-101660

CloudGuard Network

Central License tool (vsec_lic_cli) unexpectedly removes Central Licenses from the default license pool on the Primary Multi-Domain Security Management Server in a High Availability (HA) environment. Refer to sk182483.

PRJ-47808,
PRHF-29624

CloudGuard Network

In the Kubernetes Data Center, the Import window may be stuck in "Initializing" state.

PRJ-55862,
PRHF-33031

Scalable Platforms

When using MPDS routing separation and Maestro Dual site, the Log Server may get disconnected on a Standby site.

PRJ-54335,
PMTR-96560

Scalable Platforms

When different Network Interface Card models are attached among Maestro Security Group members, it may trigger unnecessary reboots.

PRJ-55461

Scalable Platforms

When dynamic split is enabled, the system fails to update the "/tmp/mq_cores_list" file, causing "cores_verifier" and "asg perf" verifiers to display incorrect PPAK cores numbers.

PRJ-54126,
PMTR-103375

Scalable Platforms

After changing the CoreXL configurations of a VS in SmartConsole, the dynamic split state switches to off until the "g_dynamic_split -r" command is performed.

PRJ-53511,
PRHF-29741

Scalable Platforms

When running the "set user username force-password-change yes" command in gClish on Scalable Platforms, the new configuration may not be applied.

PRJ-43739,
PMTR-88853

Scalable Platforms

The "distutil" script may take a long time to run in an environment with many VS's.

PRJ-49848,
PRHF-30436

Scalable Platforms

Site to Site VPN traffic may be interrupted after installing policy with VSLS.

PRJ-50626,
PRHF-29180

Carrier Security

  • ClusterXL Active member changes the status to "LOST".

  • Kernel segfault error is printed in /var/log/messages.

  • The CPD daemon and CPVIEW_SERVICE exit.

Take 76

Released on 21 July 2024 and declared as Recommended on 31 July 2024

Take 76 - Improvements and Resolved Issues

 

PRJ-56150,

PRHF-35183

Security Management

When the Compliance Blade is enabled, the FWM process may unexpectedly exit and generate a core dump. Refer to sk182507.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-55940,

PRHF-34652

Security Gateway

The "up_fw_set_cphwd_template: up_manager_create_template_msg failed; fwhandle_pool_add: Table kbufs - All available pools exhausted" error may be printed in the fwk.elg file during a heavy traffic load.

PRJ-55953,
PMTR-106146

Security Gateway

Security Gateway running in SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) may crash during driver removal showing "m_free: mbuf doublefree" in the backtrace.

See the Important Notes section.

Take 70

Released on 1 July 2024

Take 70 - New Functionality

 

PRJ-51436,
PMTR-98141

SSL Inspection

NEW: Added ability to import PKCS#12 files using AES-256-CBC encryption with PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA-256. This enhancement is designed for use in multi-portal environments and HTTPS Inspection scenarios.

PRJ-53699,
PMTR-101481

Security Management

NEW:

  • Added support for the Gaia API proxy with VSX to use Management API from both the Multi-Domain Security Management Server and the Security Management Server. Refer to Management API Reference.

  • This release also resolves issues that occur when using Multi-Portal Blades with internally issued certificates and third-party certificates.

PRJ-50184,

PRHF-29458

Threat Prevention

NEW: This Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take introduces enhanced protection against zero-day attacks. It detects and blocks advanced malware variants by automatically analyzing and identifying communication patterns. The feature is disabled by default. Refer to sk181168.

PRJ-42991

Identity Awareness

NEW: Added Identity Cache Mode for Identity Sharing Protocols (disabled by default). Refer to sk181613.

PRJ-52856,
PRHF-32233

CloudGuard Network

NEW: Added support for AWS Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs). These ENIs can now be viewed and managed in SmartConsole, similar to how other supported Data Center objects are handled. The feature is disabled by default. Refer to R81.20 CloudGuard Controller Administration Guide > Supported Data Centers > CloudGuard Controller for Amazon Web Services (AWS).

PRJ-48744,

PMTR-94089

SmartConsole

NEW: Added support for 3072 bits key size in IKE certificates. To use 3072 bits key size, refer to "HTTPS Portals (Multi-Portal) Certificate, VPN Certificate" section in sk96591.

Take 70 - Improvements and Resolved Issues

 

PRJ-49174,
PRHF-30294

Security Management

UPDATE: Added verification for policy deletion. If the policy is installed on the Security Gateway, the "delete-package" Management API command now fails with "Policy X is installed on 1 or more gateways.". Refer to sk181877.

PRJ-52448,
PRHF-31852

Security Management

UPDATE: Added an ability to configure the schedule for Compliance blade scans. This should prevent login issues during the scans. Refer to sk182033.

PRJ-52065,
PMTR-99262

SmartConsole

UPDATE: The SmartConsole Change Report now highlights changes to the disable/enable state of rules more clearly.

PRJ-53113,
PMTR-101354

Security Management

UPDATE: In the Change Report, updated some portions of the translated GUI.

PRJ-48160

SmartView

UPDATE: In SmartView Report, the Security Checkup tool now also provides the IoT data.

PRJ-49861,

PMTR-95625

CPView

UPDATE: Added the "SecureXL" filter to the "cpview -m -f" command, which allows to extract to Skyline all the information related to SecureXL drops. Refer to the Skyline Metrics Repository.

PRJ-51125,
PRHF-31302

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added ability to increase the instance processing queue size, by modifying the kernel parameter "fwmultik_pending_queue_len_limit" (the default value is "2000"). Refer to sk181921.

PRJ-51975,
CRYPTOIS-3027

SSL Inspection

UPDATE: If inspection logging is configured, the "Inspect" log now displays the negotiated ciphers and TLS version used for successful inspections, both between the client and the Security Gateway, and between the Security Gateway and the Server.

PRJ-48389,

PMTR-93901

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: It is now possible to disable a custom field in the IoC feed configuration. Refer to Management API Reference.

PRJ-52400,
ACCHA-3762

SecureXL

UPDATE: The DOS/Rate Limiting feature can now run in SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) environments without a Light Speed, allowing IoC Feeds that use it for enforcement to function properly.

PRJ-53892,
PMTR-101528

SecureXL

UPDATE: The UPPAK start up script is changed to allocate additional memory buffers for handling Jumbo Frames based on Security Gateway configuration.

PRJ-48177,
PMTR-95781

Mobile Access

UPDATE: jQuery UI is upgraded to version 1.13.2.

PRJ-51701,
PRHF-31790

Harmony Endpoint

UPDATE: The audit event information when adding or removing Virtual Group members is now unified. The data includes the administrator name and device/user names for both actions.

Previously:

  • When removing an object, the administrator name who did the operation and also the device/user name were shown.

  • When adding an object, the administrator name was not shown and there was an ID list instead of the user or device names.

PRJ-52863,
PMTR-100872

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added support for Data Centers in AWS ca-west-1 Calgary region.

PRJ-51248,
PMTR-98059

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: The AWS Security Group Data Center object name now includes both the name tag and Security Group name, formatted as "ID <Name tag> <Security Group name>".

Previously, only the name tag was included, with the format "ID <Name tag>".

This change to include the Security Group name can be enabled by adding the setting "aws.supportSearchGroupName=true" in the vsec.conf file.

PRJ-53526,
PMTR-100166

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Added Multi-Queue support for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) accelerated network interfaces.

PRJ-50751,

PMTR-96420

Infrastructure

UPDATE: Added Python 3.11.4.

PRJ-54099,

PRJ-54459,

PRJ-55301,

PRJ-55687,

ODU-1779,

ODU-1755,

ODU-1731,

ODU-1667

Automatic Updates - Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: New features and improvements are released in Take 100, Take 102, Take 104 and Take 111 via self-updatable package. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-54688,

ODU-1707

Automatic Updates - CPView

UPDATE: Added Take 93 of CPotelcol (OpenTelemetry Collector) Release Updates. Refer to sk180522.

PRJ-54173,

ODU-1683

Automatic Updates - CPSDC

UPDATE: Added Take 34 of Check Point Support Data Collector (CPSDC) for Scalable Platforms and Maestro Security Appliances. Refer to sk164414.

PRJ-54177,

PRJ-55582,

ODU-1803,

ODU-1659

Automatic Updates - HCP

UPDATE: Added Update 17 of HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release. Refer to sk171436.

PRJ-53341,

PRHF-32639

Security Management

When a Domain object in a policy is set with a backslash in the suffix, policy installation fails with the "Unterminated string&CURRENTVERCMP" error.

PRJ-50767,
PRHF-31101

Security Management

In rare scenarios, during an upgrade or Domain migration, the API readiness test fails if the upgrade failed.

PRJ-51619,
PRHF-31710

Security Management

Deleting a domain may fail when using the createDomainRecovery.sh script.

PRJ-50593,
PRHF-30931

Security Management

High Availability synchronization runs after every scheduled Application Control update, even if the Application Control is up to date.

PRJ-51596,
PRHF-31532

Security Management

In rare scenarios, Global Policy assignment fails when there are many open Remote CPM Server sessions. Refer to sk181822.

PRJ-52817,
PMTR-100795

Security Management

If there are changes in the HTTPS Policy and Certificates in the session, a "Something went wrong" message appears when opening the Change Report.

PRJ-49362,
PRHF-30301

Security Management

There may be synchronization failure and, as a result, corrupted Domain policies on the Multi-Domain Security Server when a newly created local administrator on the backup Security Management Server makes changes to rules or objects, after the Active role is switched to that Security Management Server.

PRJ-50019,
PMTR-86613

Security Management

It may not be possible to add/set a Threat Prevention Exception with a protection-or-site UID.

PRJ-53349,
PRHF-32714

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the FWM process on the Security Management Server may unexpectedly exit or not start, creating a core dump file.

PRJ-50999,
PRHF-31180

Security Management

Install Policy Presets may fail after purging all revisions. Refer to sk181652.

PRJ-52012,
PRHF-31738

Security Management

In some scenarios, policy installation may fail and the displayed message erroneously refers to sk178886: "One of the updatable objects was downloaded incorrectly (see SK178886". sk178886 describes a different scenario and does not resolve the issue.

PRJ-54095,
PRHF-28962

Security Management

In rare scenarios, policy installation on R77.30 Security Gateway fails with "Operation failed, install/uninstall has been improperly terminated". Refer to sk180448.

PRJ-53731,
PMTR-102450

Security Management

Changes Report may allow to list certain directory contents.

PRJ-55502,

PRHF-34248

Security Management

A memory leak may occur in the FWM process which leads to SmartConsole connection failures.

PRJ-49583,
PRHF-30453

Security Management

In some scenarios, when searching objects in SmartConsole, not all relevant results are highlighted.

PRJ-51507,
PMTR-98543

Security Management

The on-premises Security Management Server fails to connect to Infinity Portal when this Server has a proxy configured.

PRJ-53472,
PRHF-32798

Security Management

In Multi-Domain Security Management environments, High Availability synchronization issues may arise after making and publishing changes through the SmartTasks feature in SmartConsole for a local Domain.

PRJ-52825,

PMTR-100459

Security Management

On the Security Management Server, a CPD zombie process may be created.

PRJ-51633,
PRHF-30990

Security Management

In rare scenarios, after an upgrade or a Domain migration:

  • Policy installation might fail with "ERROR: Duplicate keys xxxxxxxx in table 'gw_properties".

  • DAIP Gateway objects will have duplicate IP addresses.

    Refer to sk181834.

PRJ-51696,
PMTR-98972

Security Management

After a global assignment, when installing policy on several installation targets at once, the log may show an incorrect rule name.

PRJ-51514,
PRHF-31523

Security Management

The revisions purge process may get stuck due to an incomplete purge operation from a previous attempt.

PRJ-51205,
PRHF-31334

Security Management

If all revisions were purged on the Security Management Server, the "show packages details-level full" Management API call may fail.

PRJ-51543,
PMTR-98526

Security Management

Enabling automatic updates of Trusted CAs as described in sk173629 may fail.

PRJ-50373,
PMTR-96089

Security Management

When attempting to load a SNORT Rules file that contains one or more spaces, the import process fails with an ambiguous error message.

PRJ-41781,
PRHF-25318

Security Management

In some scenarios, SmartConsole may close unexpectedly when clicking the "View Changes" option in the Install Policy view.

PRJ-52879,
PRHF-32383

Security Management

In rare scenarios, Access policy installation may fail with the "Installation failed. Reason: Failed to load Policy on Security Gateway" or "Operation failed, install/uninstall has been improperly terminated" messages.

PRJ-52791,
PRHF-32309

Security Management

In rare scenarios, High Availability synchronization fails with "Peer is busy".

PRJ-51677,
PRHF-31606

Security Management

Global Assignment fails with "Locked for editing by another administrator and need to be published or discarded before the operation can take place". Refer to sk181807.

PRJ-49667,
PMTR-92847

Security Management

The "set-smart-task" API command fails when enabling the "Send mail to/from" option in SmartTasks.

PRJ-51505,

PMTR-98271

Security Management

After a Multi-Domain Security Management upgrade to R81.20 version, some Infinity Portal Services may stop working.

PRJ-51085,
PRHF-31155

Multi-Domain Security Management

In Multi-Domain Security Management environments with over two hundred administrators, Domain creation may fail with "Timeout expired while waiting for permissions calculation".

PRJ-51085,
PRHF-31155

Multi-Domain Security Management

In Multi-Domain Security Management environments with over two hundred administrators, Domain creation may fail with "Timeout expired while waiting for permissions calculation".

PRJ-48396,
PRHF-29737

Multi-Domain Security Management

In a Multi-Domain Security Management environment, the "show simple-gateway" and "show simple-cluster" Management API commands may fail with "Runtime error: An internal error has occurred"

PRJ-51272,
PRHF-30806

Multi-Domain Security Management

In Multi-Domain Security Management environments, if there are more than three hundred forty Domains, login to SmartConsole fails.

PRJ-52970,
PRHF-29693

Multi-Domain Security Management

The "cprlic get" command output may not provide correct information about vSEC licenses.

PRJ-52578,

PMTR-99856

Multi-Domain Security Management

In some scenarios, during an upgrade of a Multi-Domain Security Management Server, the "created by" and "date created" fields of some rules may be displayed as "system" and "date of the upgrade".

  • The fix will only be applied if the upgrade to this Jumbo Hotfix Take is done using a Blink image or via the Advanced Upgrade method.

PRJ-51570,

PMTR-90798

SmartConsole

SmartConsole slowness when adding applications to rules. Refer to sk182063.

PRJ-53275,
PMTR-100689

SmartProvisioning

The "show-lsm-gateways" Management API command returns LSM cluster objects besides the LSM Security Gateways.

PRJ-53227,
PMTR-100502

SmartProvisioning

The Management API command "set-lsm-gateway" with the "sic.ip-address" parameter may fail with "Establish SIC failed. Reset SIC on gateway and try again." when resetting SIC.

PRJ-52721,
PRHF-30795

Logging

Administrators without the "run script" permissions can enable or disable the option to run a script on a Security Gateway, using advanced configuration options.

PRJ-51148,
PRHF-31357

Logging

When Identity Awareness blade is enabled, the "Src User Dn" and "Dst User Dn" fields in ICMP Logs are not masked for users without "Identities" permissions. Refer to sk181677.

PRJ-51327,
PMTR-96510

Logging

In rare scenarios, after an upgrade, the LOG_EXPORTER process may fail to send the log files to SIEM or to the cloud.

PRJ-53938,
SL-8466

Logging

In Quantum Smart-1 Cloud environments, exporting more than five thousand logs to CSV may fail.

PRJ-51430,
PRHF-31388

Logging

In some scenarios, in Multi-Domain Management environments with over 300,000 network objects, the LOG_INDEXER process repeatedly exits if the procedure from sk164452 is not applied.

PRJ-44795,
PRHF-27521

Logging

In rare scenarios, the FWD process on the Security Gateway may reach out of memory and produce a core dump file of around 3GB.

PRJ-54108,
SL-8626

Logging

In rare scenarios, the LOG_EXPORTER process fails to send logs although marks them as sent.

PRJ-49790,
PMTR-95167

Logging

The "cpstat -h log server ip ls -f logging" command fails when running it from Security Management.

PRJ-51525,

SDWANGW-2060

Logging

SD-WAN log information may be missing from SmartConsole connection log when SecureXL Templates are used.

PRJ-52679,
PRHF-31821

Security Gateway

Running GTP traffic may cause a crash on a Security Gateway without a GTP license.

PRJ-52725,
PMTR-100460

Security Gateway

In some rare cases, the Dynamic Split functionality may be disabled on VSX Gateways with Hyperflow enabled. When checking the status of Dynamic Balancing, the "Initiating shut-down due to state mismatch detection (reason dmd_sleep_status)" message is printed in the logs under $FWDIR/log/dsd.elg.

PRJ-50576,
PRHF-30817

Security Gateway

There may be log entries related to the drop optimization feature, although the dropped traffic matches a non-logging rule.

PRJ-55412,

PRHF-34173

Security Gateway

The CPD process may unexpectedly exit and create a core dump.

PRJ-52521,
PRHF-31425

Security Gateway

The ICAP Server does not send data for the Threat Prevention blades inspection, after the restart of the TEMAIN process.

PRJ-47672,
PRHF-29535,

PRJ-47668,
PRHF-29516

Security Gateway

When there is fragmented traffic, the /var/log/messages file may be flooded with the "dst_release" entries.

PRJ-52952,
PRHF-32357

Security Gateway

Traffic outages may occur because of high utilization of CPU cores that run CoreXL SND instances. Refer to sk181996.

PRJ-53850,
PMTR-94689

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, when SecureXL works in the User Space (UPPAK) mode, the VSX Security Gateway cluster members are not able to send and receive CCP packets correctly through a Virtual Switch.

PRJ-51439,
PMTR-98446

Security Gateway

A rare race condition may be triggered by the timing and packet patterns of VoIP traffic, and, as a result, the FWK process may restart.

PRJ-53628,
PMTR-102177

Security Gateway

A memory issue may occur in a cluster environment, when SIP inspection is enabled.

PRJ-48817,
PRHF-30025

Security Gateway

After deploying a new license to a Multi-Domain Log Module (MLM), all Customer Log Modules (CLMs) generate alert logs about missing license/contracts stating "No valid license was found".

PRJ-41754,
PRHF-25570

Security Gateway

Some debug messages may appear in the /var/log/messages file, although the debug mode is not activated. The issue is cosmetic only.

PRJ-49046,
PMTR-94275

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, a file downloaded via HTTP may be corrupted.

PRJ-52421,
PMTR-99316

Security Gateway

Incorrect static NAT destination is applied when the original destination in the NAT rule is the Security Gateway object, but the actual destination does not match the main IP address of the Security Gateway object.

PRJ-51460,
PRHF-31473

Security Gateway

When using three or more ISP DNS proxies in High Availability mode and Load Sharing mode:

  • A DNS query to any ISP returns IP addresses of all three, although it should return only the active ISP.

  • When one ISP is down, the faulty ISP is also returned instead of the newly active.

PRJ-47664,
PRHF-29452

Security Gateway

Incorrect local traffic routing by the Security Gateway causes message flooding in /var/log/messages.

PRJ-50757,
PRHF-31127

Security Gateway

In a rare scenario, because of a memory allocation issue, the Security Gateway may crash and reboot.

PRJ-48263,
PMTR-93809

Security Gateway

Notifications of SecureXL connection deletion appear unfiltered in the debug output, also when using a debug filter.

PRJ-51946,
PRHF-31780

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, if a rule with a security zone is installed using accelerated install policy, the traffic may stop matching the NAT Rule Base.

PRJ-51609,
PRHF-31672

Security Gateway

The ICAP Server may fail to initialize.

PRJ-51039,

PRHF-31146

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway may crash during policy installation.

PRJ-52796,
PRHF-31617

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, the VSX Security Gateway may not set the MAC header correctly when sending traffic back to Gaia OS directly out of an interface on a Virtual Router.

PRJ-51528,
PRHF-31572

Security Gateway

Sporadic latency while uploading a file when HTTPS Inspection and ICAP client are active. Refer to sk181793.

PRJ-52564,
PRHF-32096

Internal CA

CRLs may not be recreated after cleaning expired certificates from the ICA database.

PRJ-42871,
PRHF-26332

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. Refer to sk180225.

PRJ-53912,
PMTR-102756

Threat Prevention

SSH DPI may not work because of incorrect parsing of the client hello from a non-standard SSH client.

PRJ-49031,
PMTR-96716

Threat Prevention

In a bond failover setup with the XOR bond mode, rapid toggling the port states causes the switch to display incorrect "connected" port statuses for both ports, despite one port being actually down, leading to a non-functioning bond interface.

PRJ-53458,
PMTR-87269

Threat Prevention

Installation of Threat Prevention Policy fails with the error "No profile defined on GW <Name of Security Gateway Object>" in this scenario:

  • The "Install On" column of a Threat Prevention rule contains a Group object (Group #1).

  • This Group object (Group #1) contains another Group object (Group #2).

  • This nested Group object (Group #2) contains the Security Gateway object.

PRJ-53091,

PMTR-98503

Threat Prevention

The "ioc_feeds" CLI command with the "--transport local_directory" argument may fail to load feeds.

PRJ-53404,

PMTR-101787

Threat Prevention

No feedback form appears when disabling the Zero Phishing Blade, although it should.

PRJ-51335,
PRHF-31398

Identity Awareness

When a Multi-User Host is used with Identity Broker, the user session may expire on the PEP side, while still connected on the PDP, causing failure of user-based access.

PRJ-49436,
PMTR-92848

Identity Awareness

In a rare scenario, revoked identity on Broker Publisher is not synchronized with its Broker subscribers.

PRJ-52371,
PRHF-31314

Identity Awareness

After an upgrade, the Security Identifier (SID) for LDAP Users or LDAP Groups that were configured prior to the upgrade may be empty. Refer to sk181946.

PRJ-52793,
PRHF-32291

Identity Awareness

In some scenarios, access roles using packet tagging are not calculated correctly for new sessions. Refer to sk182009.

PRJ-50584,
PRHF-30933

Identity Awareness

During policy installation, users authenticated using the Captive Portal may get disconnected.

PRJ-52873,
PRHF-32296

Identity Awareness

User/Security Gateway identities may be revoked unexpectedly if an additional update from the AD Query identity source is rejected due to Identity session conciliation.

PRJ-50514,
PMTR-92204

Identity Awareness

In a Cluster Load Sharing environment or when a single Policy Decision Point (PDP) is shared among multiple Policy Enforcement Points (PEPs), the PDP registers the PEP, but the PEP may not be aware of this registration.

PRJ-52541,
PRHF-31937

IPS

In a rare scenario, Security Gateway may drop client-to-server web browsing traffic.

PRJ-50805,
PRHF-28437

IPS

There may be excessive "fwconn_chain_is_data_conn failed" messages in the /var/log/messages files when activating the IPS Blade.

PRJ-51183,
PRHF-31305

Anti-Virus

Some file downloads fail with a logged "failure-reject" error because of the Anti-Virus Blade improperly classifying documents, causing inspection failures.

PRJ-53572,
PRJ-53566

Anti-Virus

In a rare scenario, the Security Gateway crashes due to memory corruption caused by the Anti-Virus blade.

PRJ-53125,
PRHF-32092

Anti-Virus

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

PRJ-52048,

PRHF-31811

Mobile Access

SSL Network Extender (SNX) cannot connect after installing Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator. Refer to sk181805.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-42809,
PRHF-24122

ClusterXL

Cluster members may crash, generating vmcores in /var/log/crash.

PRJ-51588,
PRHF-31481

ClusterXL

The Security Gateway may crash during the conversion from VRRP Cluster to ClusterXL Cluster.

PRJ-50117,
PRHF-30245

ClusterXL

In a cluster environment, the Security Gateway may become unresponsive on the Active member, and after a failover the issue occurs on the new Active member also.

PRJ-52799,
PRHF-31629

SecureXL

The Security Gateway may fail to add interfaces to the SecureXL accelerated interfaces list.

PRJ-44520,
PRHF-23500

SecureXL

Multicast packets received on an interface with PIM disabled can cause multicast packet drops on other interfaces by filling up the kernel routing queue.

PRJ-52802,
PRHF-31631

SecureXL

In some scenarios, the VSX Security Gateway may not set the MAC header correctly when sending traffic directly out of an interface on a Virtual Router or Virtual Switch.

PRJ-51210,

PRHF-31259

SecureXL

In Kernel mode Firewall, traffic passing through the GRE tunnel may not reach the peer.

PRJ-50856,
PMTR-96036

SecureXL

There may be a delay in enforcing DOS/ Rate Limiting rules to drop packets when concurrent connection limits are exceeded.

PRJ-51622,
PMTR-97796

SecureXL

In some scenarios, fragmented ICMP packets may bypass the DOS/ Rate limiting deny list.

PRJ-52806,
PMTR-96017

SecureXL

In some scenarios when Route based probing is configured, the VSX Security Gateway sends out encrypted traffic with a source IP address of all zeroes through a Virtual Switch interface. This traffic may be dropped by routers, the VPN peer Gateway or other Security Gateways due to the invalid source IP address.

PRJ-54530,

PRHF-33850

SecureXL

Policy installation on a Security Gateway running with SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) fails with the "2000240" or "2000267" error code. Refer to sk182272.

PRJ-53479,
PMTR-102025

SecureXL

Entering Maintenance Mode during the boot process may result in disabling SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK).

PRJ-52859,
PMTR-101273

SecureXL

In some scenarios, when SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) is enabled, the Security Gateway crashes during boot up.

PRJ-53253,
PMTR-101573

SecureXL

When SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) is enabled, there may be some increased latency when sending cleartext traffic between a Virtual System and a Virtual Router.

PRJ-53061,
PMTR-101152

SecureXL

During the deny list update process, there is a temporary gap where no IP addresses are blocked, allowing unwanted traffic to pass through the Security Gateway unfiltered.

PRJ-52663,
PMTR-100376

SecureXL

DOS/Rate Limiting commands that require a change from default configuration are not allowed to run in SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) . "ERROR: fwaccel_dos: DOS features are not supported for SecureXL User Space Mode with LightSpeed" is printed in the /var/log/messages file.

PRJ-55396,

PMTR-104268

SecureXL

A race condition may occur in a large scale VSX Cluster environment and SecureXL User Mode (UPPAK) is enabled.

PRJ-53856,
PRHF-33138

Routing

ROUTED process assert failure may take place when LSA from a neighbor's retransmission list is freed if that LSA belongs to the max age hold tree that is flooded at max age.

PRJ-53172,
PMTR-99623

Routing

The ROUTED process may unexpectedly exit because of an OSPF assertion failure.

PRJ-53054,

ROUT-2968

Routing

BGP peers may experience timeouts when these conditions occur simultaneously:

  • The network has more than 100 BGP peers configured,

  • The routing table contains tens of thousands of routes,

  • BGP tracing is enabled,

  • The BGP timers (such as keepalive and hold timers) are reduced from their default values, making the peers more sensitive to delays or congestion.

PRJ-52734,
PRHF-31847

Routing

In networks where multicast groups are manually configured through IGMP if only one membership report is received for a specific <S,G> pair and no further reports follow, it may cause outages.

PRJ-52659,

PRJ-52656,
PRHF-31818,

PRHF-31977

Routing

Cluster failover may occur when the ROUTED process due to a memory leak unexpectedly exits with a core dump file generated.

PRJ-53057,
PRHF-32078

Routing

In scenarios where numerous BGP peers are configured with the "multihop" option enabled, combined with short "keepalive" settings and a large number of routes being received from each peer, the ROUTED process may experience high CPU utilization.

PRJ-51260,
PRHF-31307

Routing

It may not be possible to propagate a newly added static route through OSPF.

PRJ-51983,
ROUT-2393

Routing

When running a Gaia API request that results in multiple configuration changes, only the first change may be applied initially. The subsequent changes are not enforced until another change triggers re-processing.

PRJ-53569,
PMTR-100631

Routing

In rare scenarios, when a PIM interface or PIM instance stops working, the Security Gateway may crash if trying to access a bogus reference to a PIM neighbor.

PRJ-48210,
PMTR-91011

VPN

IKEv2 Remote Access stability issues.

PRJ-47953,
PMTR-92800

VPN

Establishing an IKEv2 tunnel with Cross AZ Cluster may fail.

PRJ-53384,
PMTR-101269

VPN

IPv6 non-VPN traffic may be dropped with "Clear text packet should be encrypted".

PRJ-53178,
PRHF-32616

VPN

In a rare scenario, while connecting SNX client, the VPND process may exit.

PRJ-52830,
PMTR-96593

VPN

In a rare scenario, in a Maestro environment, the first packet of the VPN tunnel is lost or has a large delay.

PRJ-52514,
PRHF-32030

VPN

In Cross-AZ clusters, when using probing-based link selection for High Availability and Load Sharing, there may be a potential VPN traffic outage. Refer to sk181909.

PRJ-54241,

PMTR-103618

VPN

In a VPN Community with a configuration involving two Security Gateways (a Center Cluster and a Satellite Security Gateway) with IPv6 external and internal interfaces, when attempting to establish a Link Selection Star community between them, the VPN process may unexpectedly exit due to repetitive IKE core crashes on one of the Security Gateways while the other Security Gateway tries to establish a tunnel, resulting in connectivity issues.

PRJ-52949,
PRHF-32461

VPN

When the DAIP Gateway public IP address occasionally changes, the connected Security Gateway fails to update the new IP address and continues responding to the old IP address, causing communication issues.

PRJ-44265,
PRHF-20660

VPN

The FWK process crashes sporadically, causing impact on traffic due to an issue related to the decryption of fragmented traffic.

PRJ-51297,

PMTR-97905

VSX

When adding a new Virtual System, a CPD core dump file may be generated.

PRJ-52509,
PMTR-99867

Gaia OS

When a non-local user executes a Gaia API command, the action is incorrectly logged as performed by the "admin" user in the /var/log/messages file.

PRJ-52724,
PRHF-32115

Gaia OS

The MONITORD daemon causes high CPU after 388 days of uptime. Refer to sk181922.

PRJ-53486,
PMTR-95316

Gaia OS

Some valid interfaces may not be available with running the "set lldp interface" command.

PRJ-53195,
PRHF-32504

Gaia OS

In rare scenarios, the Gaia Portal daemon HTTPD may unexpectedly exit and create a core dump file in the /var/log/dump/usermode/ directory.

PRJ-52886,
PMTR-100352

Gaia OS

Disabling a bond with one interface from WebUI may fail.

PRJ-54180,
PMTR-103543

Gaia OS

Removing unused built-in user called "cp_ender" that may appear in Gaia OS after an upgrade. Refer to sk182185.

PRJ-51441,
EPS-54570

Harmony Endpoint

Clients may not be assigned to default groups after adding a device to the AD Server.

PRJ-50572,
EPS-53505

Harmony Endpoint

In an on-premises environment, large Active Directory groups with more than 1500 members appear empty or have incomplete membership information.

PRJ-52129,
PRHF-31662

Harmony Endpoint

When attempting a one-time login for a migrated client in the Infinity Portal, the request fails with "400 error" caused by duplicate logon_name and domain_name entries in the database, preventing password generation from the Web Interface.

PRJ-51292,
EPS-54427

Harmony Endpoint

In some scenarios, Unified Endpoint Policy Management (UEPM) database upgrade fails or takes a long time during the scripts stage.

PRJ-51138,
PRHF-31298

Harmony Endpoint

When duplicate users with the same name and domain exist in the database or Active Directory, FDE Pre-boot authentication on LAN may fail, not able to identify the user attempting to log in.

PRJ-53431,
PRHF-32749

Harmony Endpoint

SmartEndpoint creates an empty "Policy Report" CSV file.

PRJ-50589,
PRHF-30890

CloudGuard Network

In an environment with Cloud Security Gateways, frequent High Availability synchronization sessions can cause high CPU utilization. As a result, change of the Activity status may fail.

PRJ-50638,
PRHF-28490

CloudGuard Network

CloudGuard Controller synchronizes cloud object configurations with a noticeable latency, reflecting the updates made to those objects in the cloud environment after a significant time delay.

PRJ-51302,
PRHF-31310

Scalable Platforms

When using NAT64 rules, Server to Client traffic may be dropped because of the "Out of state" error.

PRJ-47396,
PMTR-92635

Scalable Platforms

Excessive CPU usage occurs on a Maestro Security Group because of exhaustion of available NAT ports when traffic is subjected to NAT and Layer 4 (L4) load distribution is enabled. Refer to sk181925.

PRJ-53832,

PMTR-73771

Scalable Platforms

Before enabling MDPS, CoreXL Dynamic Balancing (sk164155) must be disabled.

PRJ-52644,
PMTR-100357

Scalable Platforms

After a failover scenario, the "m site-id member-id" command requires reauthentication.

PRJ-53083,
PMTR-97118

Scalable Platforms

Redundant "MHO_stateAgent[3230]: QuidAddon: System not ready yet - attempting to re-init" messages in the /var/log/messages file.

PRJ-52883,
MBS-18033

Scalable Platforms

When running the "fwaccel stat" command on a VSX Security Gateway, the output may show physical interfaces as not accelerated, although they are.

PRJ-53622,
PMTR-99823

Scalable Platforms

The "reboot -b all" command in gClish may fail. The environment hangs or reboots partially (only some of the members).

PRJ-44133,
MBS-16004

Scalable Platforms

Member state may flap between Active and Ready.

PRJ-46223,
PMTR-88316

Scalable Platforms

During site failover, IPv6 traffic that goes through the Warp interface may be interrupted.

PRJ-50827,
PMTR-97227

Scalable Platforms

In a rare scenario, file system corruption may lead to a failure identifying the Maestro Orchestrator hardware model during the Maestro Orchestrator OS boot process, causing the boot to fail.

PRJ-44136,
MBS-16756

Scalable Platforms

If a DR packet arrives fragmented, it may not get forwarded to the DR manager, potentially causing connectivity issues.

PRJ-46793,
PMTR-92392

Scalable Platforms

An additional reboot may be performed on Maestro Security Gateway because of the database entry (otlp) which should not be pulled from SMO. This entry is updated locally on each member via self-update functionality and therefore may differ between members.

PRJ-52532,

PMTR-99841

Scalable Platforms

After dynamic routing manager failure and recovery, connections are dropped with a log message "TCP out of state: First packet isn't SYN". Refer to sk181874.

PRJ-51186,

PMTR-97932

Scalable Platforms

In a rare scenario, when a Maestro Security Gateway is active again after a reboot, and LightSpeed is used, the LACP bond may drop incoming and outgoing packets.

PRJ-55570,

PMTR-105246

Scalable Platforms

Traffic outage after policy installation on a Maestro Security Group in the VSX mode that works in the Dual Site configuration. Refer to sk182379.

PRJ-55518,

PMTR-105145

Scalable Platforms

• On Quantum Maestro/Chassis or in ClusterXL, the Security Gateway may crash while processing a VPN/correction flow with a vmcore in /var/log/crash or FWK core in /var/log/dump/usermode/.

• The "kernel: xxxxx: tx_timeout" error is printed in /var/log/messages.

• PSL drops packets with "PSL Drop: psl_build_pslip failed” message, potentially impacting network performance and streaming capabilities.

Refer to sk182463.

See the Important Notes section.

Take 65

Released on 03 June 2024 and declared as Recommended on 10 June 2024

Take 65 - Improvements and Resolved Issues

 

PRJ-55471,
PRHF-34219

VPN

UPDATE: Remote Access VPN for local accounts authenticated only with Check Point password created in R80.20 or lower, and not updated after the upgrade to R80.30, is blocked until the password is reset. Refer to sk182336.

PRJ-54099,

PRJ-54459,

ODU-1731,

ODU-1667

Automatic Updates - Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: New features and improvements are released in Take 100 and Take 102 via self-updatable package. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-55496,
PRHF-34269

VPN

CVE-2024-24919 - Quantum Security Gateway Information Disclosure. Refer to sk182336.

PRJ-55345,
PMTR-104752

Threat Prevention

The "Categorized HTTPS Sites" option does not classify specific websites when "TLS 1.3 hybridized Kyber support" is enabled in the browser. Refer to sk182318.

PRJ-54611

ClusterXL

During an upgrade from R80.40 to R81.20 in a cluster environment, connectivity to the new member may be lost.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-54482,
PRHF-33823

Gaia OS

Wrong interface names on the 9400 appliance after installing the R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 54. Refer to sk182265.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-55322,
PMTR-104713

Gaia OS

After installing R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Take 54 on Quantum 3600/3600T/3800 appliances, CPView, WebUI, and the "show sysenv all" command in CLI display illegal values for fan speed. The issue is cosmetic only. Refer to sk182305.

PRJ-53849,
PRHF-33098

VPN

After an update, if in VPN if configured with Permanent Tunnels enabled, RAM utilization may increase.

PRJ-53184,

PMTR-103617

Harmony Endpoint

R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 43 (or higher) installation fails on the Endpoint Security Management Server with "Internal error in a hook script". Refer to sk182210.

See the Important Notes section.

Take 54

Released on 8 April 2024

Take 54 - New Functionality

 

PRJ-52942,

PRJ-52484

Security Gateway

NEW: This Jumbo Hotfix Take introduces support for new Quantum Force appliances 19100 / 9800 / 9700 / 9400 / 9300 / 9200 / 9100 appliances. Refer to sk181698 and to sk180520.

  • Requires installing SmartConsole R81.20 Build 653 or higher.

PRJ-49213,
PMTR-94735

Security Gateway

NEW: Added a new Expert mode command on the Security Gateway to revert the installed Access Control policy to one of the previous revisions: "policy_rev_tool <action> [args]". Refer to sk181437.

PRJ-49827,

ACCESS-799

Application Control

NEW: Added ability to drop the traffic of specific UDP applications per packet. For example, the Security Gateway can now drop the specific commands and allow the other commands of the BACNet Protocol.

This ability is enabled by default.

  • To disable this ability, run: "fw ctl set int appi_drop_packet_enabled 0".

  • To enable this ability, run: "fw ctl set int appi_drop_packet_enabled 1".

PRJ-53513,

PRHF-30322

SecureXL

NEW: It is now possible to configure additional TCP options in the Accelerated SYN Defender configuration file:

cookie_mss_v4, cookie_mss_v6, cookie_sack_permitted, cookie_window_scale. Refer to R81.20 Performance Tuning Administration Guide.

PRJ-47019,
CRYPTOIS-2878

VPN

NEW:Added support for a new tool (shell script) on a Management Server that can show and renew IKE certificates for VPN, Multi-Portal, and Identity Broker on all managed Security Gateways and VSX Virtual Systems. Refer to sk182070.

PRJ-50987,

PMTR-95463

VPN

NEW: Added ability to track RAM usage of the VPND process using the "cpstat" command in CLI. Refer to sk181815.

Take 54 - Improvements and Resolved Issues

 

PRJ-50565,

SDWANGW-1681

SD-WAN

UPDATE: Added support for the AU (Australia) and IN (India) regions in Infinity Portal.

PRJ-46069,

SDWANM-822

SD-WAN

UPDATE: SD-WAN Logs now appear in the dedicated SD-WAN log card in SmartView and SmartConsole.

PRJ-48780,
SL-8207

Security Management

UPDATE: Added validation for new permissions to configure a script to run on the Security Gateway from Gateway object > Logs Alerts/Storage > the "Run the following script before deleting old files" option.

PRJ-48124,
CPM-5007

Security Management

UPDATE: Creating a Domain via Management API now allows the allocation of the Domain IP address from a predefined IP address range on the Multi-Domain Security Management Server.

PRJ-48096,

PMTR-77299

CPView

UPDATE: CPView now shows statistical data also for servers with 256/512 CPU cores.

PRJ-50429,

PMTR-96484

Security Gateway

UPDATE: During certificate validation, the Security Gateway now retrieves the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) from all CRL distribution points (CDP) listed in certificate extensions.

PRJ-50741,

PRHF-30794

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Added an ability to configure objects for the HTTPS Inspection CA using labels.

  • There are now handle-based and label-based configurations.

  • Hardware Security Module in High Availability mode (HSM HA) now supports only the label-based configuration.

PRJ-50977,
PRHF-31196

Threat Extraction

UPDATE: Added an option in ICAP Server for logging benign files scanned by the Anti-Virus Blade. By default, logging for benign files is disabled. To enable it, add to the ICAP Server configuration file this entry: "LogBenign on".

PRJ-50500,
IDA-5167

Identity Awareness

UPDATE: The identity synchronization from Policy Decision Point (PDP) to Smart-Pull Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) client now takes several seconds instead of a few minutes, especially beneficial in environments with a single PDP Security Gateway sharing to multiple PEP Security Gateways.

PRJ-46626,
PMTR-87439

VPN

UPDATE: The "Server Authentication" attribute within the "Extended Key Usage" field is now included by default in IKE certificates generated by the Security Management Server.

PRJ-50915,
PRHF-31000

Gaia OS

UPDATE: When a Gaia OS Server has a Cloning Group feature enabled, it now accepts other Gaia OS Servers that join this Cloning Group over TLS1.2 or higher (over the TCP port 1129).

PRJ-53022,

ODU-1468

Automatic Updates - Security Management

UPDATE: Added Update 2 of Server-Side Change Report Generator Release Updates. Refer to sk179508.

PRJ-52628,

PRJ-53586,

ODU-1571,

ODU-1392

Automatic Updates - Web SmartConsole

UPDATE: New features and improvements are released in Take 94 and Take 97 through self-updatable package. Refer to sk170314.

PRJ-52696,

ODU-1408

Automatic Updates - Smart-1 Cloud

UPDATE: Added Update 7 of Quantum Smart-1 Cloud. Refer to sk166056.

PRJ-52820,
ODU-1491

Automatic Updates - CPView

UPDATE: Added Take 34 of CPviewExporter Release Updates. Refer to sk180521.

PRJ-52596,
ODU-1499

Automatic Updates - CPView

UPDATE: Added Take 77 of CPotelcol (OpenTelemetry Collector) Release Updates. Refer to sk180522.

PRJ-52587,

PRJ-53541,

ODU-1476,

ODU-1460

Automatic Updates - Threat Prevention

UPDATE: Added Update 23 and Update 24 of Autonomous Threat Prevention Management integration Release. Refer to sk167109.

PRJ-52867,

PRJ-53688,

ODU-1595,
ODU-1531

Automatic Updates - HCP

UPDATE: Added Update 15 and Update 16 of HealthCheck Point (HCP) Release. Refer to sk171436.

PRJ-53397,

PRJ-5368,

ODU-1611,

ODU-1563

Automatic Updates - CPSDC

UPDATE: Added Take 31 and Take 33 of Check Point Support Data Collector (CPSDC) for Scalable Platforms and Maestro Security Appliances. Refer to sk164414.

PRJ-50214,
PRHF-30688

Security Management

Packet mode search in SmartConsole may show rules that do not match the query if the query contains four or more filters.

PRJ-51089,
PRHF-31285

Security Management

In some scenarios, the change report sent via email by SmartTasks after publishing appears blank, even though there were modifications in the published session.

PRJ-50047,
PRHF-30714

Security Management

In High Availability environments, task progress notifications may get updated only every 5 minutes, even when the task is complete.

PRJ-49953,
PRHF-30373

Security Management

Login to SmartConsole may fail while the Compliance Blade is running a full scan.

PRJ-50797,

PMTR-97183

Security Management

When configuring an email address in SmartTasks, Top Level Domain (TLD) is limited to 3 characters, for example, ".com"

PRJ-51068,
PRHF-31283

Security Management

In a rare scenario, the FWK and CPD processes may exit with core dumps at approximately the same time.

PRJ-51279,
PMTR-97942

Security Management

When the value of the "asm_ips_cci" property is updated manually to a number higher than 500,000:

  • login to the Security Management Server fails due to timeout.

  • the FWM process may consistently consume 100% CPU.

PRJ-50355,
PRHF-30825

Security Management

SmartConsole may unexpectedly close after policy installation when SmartTasks return invalid characters from a user-defined script.

PRJ-50436,
PMTR-96433

Security Management

The FWM process on the Management Server may unexpectedly exit, creating a core dump file.

PRJ-49944,
PRHF-30561

Security Management

In environments with many network objects, SmartConsole may freeze while it loads the VPN tab of a Security Gateway object.

PRJ-50405,

PRHF-30796

Security Management

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

PRJ-50187,

PRHF-30766

Security Management

In some scenarios, Access Policy installation fails with "Policy load / verification failed because it required more than the maximum allowed memory of 4GB. Follow sk161874 to improve the performance and prevent excessive memory consumption".

PRJ-45023,
PRHF-28126

Security Management

The "show users" Management API command fails if a user is configured to be able to connect on specific days, but the days are not selected.

PRJ-50390,
PRHF-30846

Security Management

The $MDS_FWDIR/scripts/cpm_debug.sh script may fail with "The element type "Loggers" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "/Loggers"."

PRJ-51074,
PRHF-31280

Security Management

Running a Gaia API command on the Security Gateway through the Management API from the Security Management Server fails when configuring the "target" parameter with either the Security Gateway name or UID.

PRJ-50851,
PMTR-97291

Security Management

Access Policy verification may fail when groups with exclusions are used in rules.

PRJ-46935,
PRHF-28412

SmartConsole

Defining more than two hundred GUI clients causes the "Command Line" tab in SmartConsole to be greyed out and the "api status" command to show an error status.

PRJ-49345,
PMTR-95009

Security Management

SmartConsole may unexpectedly close after deleting an object in the Object Explorer view.

PRJ-47691,
PMTR-93300

Security Management

In some scenarios, an upgrade may fail if a scheduled IPS update occurs simultaneously with the upgrade or domain migration.

PRJ-48916,

PRHF-29502

Security Management

In some scenarios the "show access rulebase" Management API command with "details-level full" can take a significant amount of time to complete or time out after five minutes. Refer to sk181397.

PRJ-50563,
PRHF-30717

Security Management

In environments with more than one hundred fifty administrators, SmartConsole may unexpectedly close when submitting changes for approval via Workflow. Refer to sk181649.

PRJ-51134,

PRHF-30631

Security Management

Installing security policy with a rule that contains the "Internet" object in the destination column may fail with error message "Topology is not defined on the policy "Install On" target <cluster object name>", if the target cluster is marked as "Geo Mode in a Cloud".

PRJ-50408,

PRHF-30754

Security Management

The Change Report generated before publishing a session, may contain internal system changes that were made by the user.

PRJ-50580,
PRHF-30902

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-51665,
PMTR-98552

Web SmartConsole

An "Error logging into domain" message is displayed in Web SmartConsole when connecting to a Domain on a peer Multi-Domain Security Management Server. Refer to sk181801.

PRJ-48003,
PRHF-29744

CPView

Offload may fail in CPView with "ERROR! Reason not initialized".

PRJ-44498,
PMTR-90355

CPView

In rare scenarios, CPView does not handle VS context correctly.

PRJ-49974,
PMTR-94928

CPView

CPU statistics may be incorrect or missing in CPView. Refer to sk182286.

PRJ-51064,

PMTR-97643

CPUSE

SmartConsole does not show all available packages for Security Gateways that run on the 15000 and 16000 Check Point appliances, even if these packages are located in the Package Repository on the Security Management Server.

PRJ-47984,
PRHF-29667

Logging

Some Access Rule Base logs may be generated with a wrong interface direction. The issue is cosmetic only.

PRJ-46288,
PRHF-27161

Logging

In SmartConsole, in the "Device License Information" view, the "New connection rate" field may indicate "please wait 10 seconds".

PRJ-48806,
SL-8218

Logging

Some attributes in SNMP MIB file may not be accessible.

PRJ-49390,
PRHF-30398

Logging

In SmartView, incorrect results may be displayed when filtering logs using the "src_machine_name" field.

PRJ-46207,
PRHF-27710

Logging

Security Gateway forwards logs to the real IP address of the Management Server instead of the public (NATed) IP address. Refer to sk181609.

PRJ-48242,
PRHF-29837

Logging

The "source", "destination", "user" and "action" fields are not exported when exporting logs with the "visible columns" option to CSV in the SmartView Web application. Refer to sk181706.

PRJ-49499,
PRHF-28245

Logging

Duration of Log Sharing on-boarding or migration to Smart-1 Cloud may take a long time (up to two minutes).

PRJ-53009,

PRHF-32426

Logging

The Syslog messages are not sent to the Security Management Server and cannot be seen in SmartLog if the Security Management Server IP address is not configured under the "Remote System Logging" section in the Gaia WebUI.

PRJ-44687,
PRHF-27417

Logging

When using Log Exporter to export logs to Splunk, a log entry in Splunk is split to separate lines if it contains the CRLF characters.

PRJ-45297,

PRHF-26975

Logging

In a rare scenario, a Security Gateway / Cluster Member may stop logging locally or to configured Log Servers. Refer to sk170331.

PRJ-47316,
PRHF-29126

Logging

When the active log file, for example, the fw.log for the Security Gateway is older than two days, the CPLogFilePrint utility does not print the log records correctly.

PRJ-49736,
PMTR-95580

Logging

In rare cases, the LOG_EXPORTER process exits and the CPWD process does not start it because of the "exit_code 0" error.

PRJ-53337,

PMTR-101195

Logging

When the "IP Options drop" tracking Global Properties setting is configured to "Log" and the policy is installed, the Security Gateway drops traffic with disallowed IPv4 options or IPv6 extension headers, but no log is shown in SmartConsole.

PRJ-52675,

PRHF-32203

Security Gateway

CVE-2023-51764 - Postfix SMTP Smuggling vulnerability. Refer to sk181944.

PRJ-47957,
PMTR-93503

Security Gateway

The CPVIEW_API_SERVICE process may exit with a timeout.

PRJ-52114,
PMTR-98129

Security Gateway

Incorrect CPU statics may be shown in CPView when using Dynamic Split.

PRJ-52471,

PMTR-98658

Security Gateway

CIFS traffic may cause CPU spikes in the FWK process.

PRJ-50761,

PRHF-31092

Security Gateway

On Security Gateways with enabled Hyper Flow feature, during policy installation and re-offload process of the connections, accelerated connections may be interrupted. Refer to sk181671.

PRJ-53051,

PMTR-100847

Security Gateway

Security Gateway does not pass traffic through an external interface when it is managed by Smart-1 Cloud, and SecureXL works in User Mode (UPPAK) mode. Refer to sk182016.

PRJ-46203,
PRHF-25771

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, updating the NTP Server may cause a temporary outage.

PRJ-50314,

PMTR-96671

Security Gateway

In a large environment, updating policy with 20000 IP addresses may take up to eighteen minutes. When publishing such changes, Data Center updates are not sent to the Security Gateway.

PRJ-50660,
PRHF-30938

Security Gateway

The proxy IP address of users surfing HTTP sites may be displayed instead of the real source IP address.

PRJ-50603,
PRHF-28340

Security Gateway

In some scenarios, the PDPD process may consume high CPU in the Identity Acquisition flow.

PRJ-49807,
PRHF-30576

Security Gateway

Enabling MDPS fails with the "clish: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/cli/lib/libcli_mdps.so: undefined symbol: cp_is_usim" error.

PRJ-50932,
PMTR-94510

Security Gateway

Multiple "fw_fna_hold_prepare: creating table" entries may be printed in /var/log/messages. The issue is cosmetic only.

PRJ-48322,
PRHF-29953

Security Gateway

The system may not automatically end or interrupt the RAD process if it takes longer than a specified timeout duration.

PRJ-53290

Security Gateway

In rare scenarios, during active HTTP streaming, the FWK process may unexpectedly exit due to memory corruption.

PRJ-50140,
PRHF-30588

Security Gateway

Accounting info may not be displayed in logs for IPv6 Cluster VRRP environments.

PRJ-47460,
PRHF-29514

Threat Prevention

In a rare scenario, there may be an unexpected reboot and a vmcore file generated in /var/log/crash.

PRJ-50050,
PRHF-30177

Threat Prevention

Security Gateway with a large number of CPU cores allocated to CoreXL SND may experience performance issues when an IoC Feed and the "fwaccel dos deny" feature are configured. See sk182223.

PRJ-46444,
PRHF-28775

Threat Prevention

Files that undergo emulation while operating from a corporate location are transformed into PDF format. However, when the same files are accessed through a VPN remote client, they do not get the pdf file extension.

PRJ-43530, PMTR-87666

Threat Prevention

When configuring an IoC Feed in SmartConsole, the "Test Feed" action does not support Full High Availability clusters.

PRJ-46597,
PRHF-29036

Threat Extraction

The "scrub send_orig_email <email_id> <recipient>" command fails. Refer to sk180974.

PRJ-51423,
PRHF-31468

Identity Awareness

In a rare scenario, an Identity Gateway (PEP) becomes unresponsive while unregistering a network.

PRJ-45136,

PRHF-27966

Identity Awareness

In Multi-User Host setups, some accounts may be identified as service accounts, although they should not be flagged.

PRJ-45142,
PMTR-90996

Identity Awareness

A memory leak may occur in the PDPD process when storing new identities.

PRJ-52495,

PRHF-32042

Identity Awareness

Setting custom configuration of PEP Identity Conciliation with the "Connect_Time" factor does not work as expected.

PRJ-49534,
PMTR-95032

Application Control

In some scenarios, the Application Control and URL Filtering scheduled updates may occur more frequently than configured.

PRJ-43457,
PRHF-26010

Application Control

When policy contains a white list, some packets may not match the listed applications.

PRJ-49687,
PMTR-95514

Application Control

Anti-Spoofing drops packets that arrive at a Security Gateway through interfaces with Topology "External" if there are routes configured for internal interfaces that overlap with routes configured for external interfaces. Refer to sk181768.

PRJ-42481,
PRHF-26320

IPS

Core IPS Protection "Unknown Resource Record" drops valid requests of specific DNS types.

PRJ-49298,
PRHF-23253

Anti-Virus

Anti-Virus fails to release held connections after the inspection.

PRJ-50529,
PMTR-96396

Anti-Virus

In a rare scenario, the Security Gateway may crash during inspection of file downloads.

PRJ-49521,
TPP-3592

Anti-Virus

The Anti-Virus Blade may inspect files on an SMB appliance although the "SMB" checkbox is disabled on the matched profile.

PRJ-49793,
PRHF-30328

SSL Inspection

Policy installation fails on the Security Gateway when using HTTPS Inspection with Hardware Security Module (HSM).

PRJ-45151,
PMTR-83342

SSL Inspection

When HTTPS Inspection is enabled, the Security Gateway generates a log that includes the message "Certificate Chain is not signed by a Trusted CA" when an end-user connects to an HTTP site or a site with an untrusted SSL certificate. But, in some scenarios, the log does not include this text.

PRJ-50870,
PRHF-31176

ClusterXL

The output of the "cphaprob -m -a if" command may show an incorrect high VLAN ID address. This is a cosmetic issue.

PRJ-52731,

PRHF-32237

ClusterXL

When working in ClusterXL mode with MDPS enabled on the cluster nodes, enabling a Cloning Group may get stuck in the "synchronizing" status.

PRJ-52498,

PMTR-99746

ClusterXL

During a Multi-Version Cluster (MVC) upgrade, full synchronization between the upgraded member and another member may not function correctly. This can cause an interruption of IPv6 traffic.

PRJ-48414,
PRHF-29594

ClusterXL

In a cluster connected to Smart-1 Cloud, local probing may start on the "maas_tunnel" interface, although it is not monitored by the cluster. Output of the Expert command "cphaprob -i list" or the Gaia Clish command "show cluster members pnotes problem" shows that the Critical Device "Local Probing" reports its state as "problem".

PRJ-51136,
PRHF-31303

SecureXL

The Security Gateway may crash with vmcore during boot while upgrading.

PRJ-48761,
PMTR-93332

SecureXL

The port beacon feature also known as interface discovery or port blinking may not work correctly in User Mode (UPPAK).

PRJ-50546,
PRJ-50419

SecureXL

High CPU utilization may be triggered when User Mode (UPPAK) and VPN are enabled under high load.

PRJ-50950,
PRHF-30474

SecureXL

In some scenarios, the VSX Security Gateway may not be able to pass VPN encrypted traffic from one Virtual System to another Virtual System through a Virtual Router/Switch.

PRJ-48284,
PRHF-29906

SecureXL

The "fwaccel dos rate get -S IP" command fails to connect to the Security Gateway.

PRJ-50833,
PMTR-96490

Routing

The "force-if-symmetry" setting in IPv4 static routes fails to mark IP addresses as unreachable, leading to the static route inaccurately remaining active in asymmetric scenarios.

PRJ-49579,
PRHF-30498

Routing

The CLI Parameters for the "netflow fwrule" command are displayed incorrectly: "set netflow fwrule ?" instead of "set netflow fwrule 0" or "set netflow fwrule 1". The issue is cosmetic only, the functionality works as expected.

PRJ-51347,
PMTR-97885

VSX

High CPU usage on SND cores when many interfaces are configured. Refer to sk181860.

PRJ-50176,
PRHF-30759

VSX

In some scenarios, installing policy via vsx_util may be stuck.

PRJ-46143,
PRHF-28669

Gaia OS

Taking a snapshot on the Security Management Server fails because of the error during copying the /boot/config/ content.

PRJ-50487,
PRHF-30667

Gaia OS

SNMP query does not bring the CPUSE package information for a single OID (not a table).

PRJ-48720,
PRHF-29974

Gaia OS

The "show configuration password-controls command output does not print the "set password-controls deny-on-fail block-admin on" option.

PRJ-50509,
PRHF-30939

Gaia OS

There may be some inconsistent syntax in the "comment" section for interface and static-route commands.

PRJ-47177,
PRHF-29200

Gaia OS

When rebooting the Security Gateway, some VLANs may lose their IPv6 configuration.

PRJ-51220,
PMTR-92877

Gaia OS

Clish may deny access of a non-local RADIUS user.

PRJ-50692,

PMTR-96606

Gaia OS

Link may not come up automatically in the 2-Port 40G/100G NIC, 4-Port 10G/25G NIC, and 10G/25G Sync Port. Refer to sk181487.

PRJ-45116,
PRHF-28172

Gaia OS

Lock database override may not work as expected when it is set via Ansible playbook, and another admin was connected to SSH before that.

PRJ-49218,
PRHF-30327

VPN

Redundant log prints in /var/log/messages may be generated, although they should be printed only when the debug flags are enabled.

PRJ-49560,
PRHF-30457

VPN

When using the "fw tab" command to view the IKE_SA_table, the output shows a column containing the IP addresses that are not meant to be displayed while the correct IP addresses are not printed.

PRJ-53729

CloudGuard Network

AWS CloudGuard Security Gateway boots into "Sh-4.4" shell after in-place upgrade to R81.20 with Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator from Take 38 to Take 53. Refer to sk182112.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-50162,
PMTR-91756

CloudGuard Network

After installing this Take, after an out-of-memory event, the CloudGuard Controller will automatically restart with increased memory settings, and the "CloudGuard IaaS" log with the Description: "CloudGuard Controller is restarting with new memory settings" will be sent.

PRJ-50161,
PRHF-30734

Harmony Endpoint

Due to a synchronization issue between the Policy Server and Primary Server, the Endpoint clients may be connected to the Primary Server instead of the Policy Server.

PRJ-46991,
PRHF-28944

VoIP

In some scenarios, SIP TCP connections are dropped after a cluster failover.

PRJ-47995,
PRHF-29577

VoIP

When the SIP Multi-core feature is enabled, and a SIP over UDP rule with one-way calls (only outgoing calls, for example) is defined, the returned traffic is dropped. Refer to sk181525.

PRJ-49104,
PMTR-93551

Scalable Platforms

When creating a Security Group creation in Maestro Orchestrator WebUI, and the password contains the "(" "&" or ";"characters, the operation fails with "Failed to apply new topology" or with "Gaia Web-UI recognized a non-valid input data".

PRJ-48724,
PMTR-67380

Scalable Platforms

When running the "asg if script" command, the "Bridge Master" output does not fit in one line in the "Info" column. The issue is cosmetic only.

PRJ-52079,
PMTR-99328

Scalable Platforms

The Maestro Fastforward feature cannot be enabled when there is a bond interface with an ID consisting of two or three digits.

PRJ-50738,
PRHF-29610

Scalable Platforms

The Gaia gClish command "installer verify CPUSE Package ID member_ids all" fails with "Quitting due to time-out" on a Scalable Platform Security Group. Refer to sk181674.

PRJ-46064,
PRHF-28410

Scalable Platforms

Querying SP Interface Data via SNMP may intermittently fail.

PRJ-50747,
PRHF-30416

Scalable Platforms

Performance data collected from all members including the Standby site, may cause the "Instance Load" and "Accelerate Load" values to be different from the asg perf tool data.

PRJ-47762,
PRHF-29491

Scalable Platforms

Gaia Clish prompt does not appear after a TACACS user logs into a Maestro Security Group. Refer to sk181149.

PRJ-50681,

PRHF-30764

Scalable Platforms

Scalable Platform Interface data OIDs (1.3.6.1.4.1.2620.1.48.26) may not be refreshed.

PRJ-48930,
PMTR-92547

Scalable Platforms

Connectivity issues may occur in a Maestro Security Group when VLAN encapsulation is disabled on Orchestrators in a Maestro Dual Site environment. Refer to sk181385.

Take 53

Released on 17 March 2024 and declared as Recommended on 3 April 2024

PRJ-52910,

PMTR-100960

Security Gateway

The Security Gateway with 40 cores fails to boot in Kernel Mode Firewall. Refer to sk181989.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-53592

Security Gateway

Security Gateway with Anti-Virus enabled may sporadically crash because of memory corruption.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-53367,

PRHF-32706

VPN

VPN IKEv2 negotiation with a third party peer may fail when the peer offers multiple combined encryption algorithms in one proposal. For example, AWS by default offers AES-GCM and AES-GCM-256. The issue triggers an IKE failure log.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-52984,

PMTR-99552

Scalable Platforms

In a VSX environment, LACP Bond traffic may fail with the "incomplete ARP" error.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-53413,

PRJ-53287

Scalable Platforms

In a Maestro environment, after installing Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator and a reboot, members may intermittently go down due to MAC flapping.

Take 45

Released on 30 January 2024

PRJ-52492,

PMTR-99615

ClusterXL

The CXLD process may consume the CPU at 70%-100% on VSX cluster members. Refer to sk181891.

See the Important Notes section.

PRJ-52559,

PMTR-100084

Security Gateway

When in the NAT Rule Base there are domain objects with uppercase letters, the NAT rules may not be matched.

See the Important Notes section.

Take 43

Released on 8 January 2024

PRJ-50012,

PRJ-49119,

PMTR-94679,
PMTR-94786

Security Management

NEW: Added support for Quantum Spark Appliances 1900/2000 for EA (Early Availability) customers.

PRJ-48759,
PRJ-51416

SD-WAN

NEW: Added Quantum SD-WAN local breakout and VPN overlay support for Security Gateways with dynamic IP addresses.

PRJ-47122,
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-45065,
PRHF-28095

Security Management

UPDATE: Added support for scheduling automatic purges of the System Data domain.

PRJ-46326

Security Management

UPDATE: Added support for the VPN certificate alert feature for Quantum Spark Appliances R81.10.X.

PRJ-47499,
PMTR-92999

Security Management

UPDATE: Added a new API version (1.9.1). Refer to Management API Reference.

PRJ-52357,
ODU-1400

CPView

UPDATE: Added Take 74 of CPotelcol (OpenTelemetry Collector) Release Updates. Refer to sk180522.

PRJ-48300,
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 R81.20 Build 651 (or higher).

PRJ-49364,
PRHF-28875

Security Gateway

UPDATE: Previously, in the "Hide NAT behind IP Address Range" feature, only the source IP address determined the Hide NAT IP address from the IP Address Range. It is now possible to configure the Security Gateway to select the Hide NAT IP address based on the combination of the source IP address and the source port. Refer to sk105302.

PRJ-46317,
PMTR-92164

Security Gateway

UPDATE: When changes are made to updatable objects within a policy and a missing or corrupted package is detected, the policy installation will fail, resulting in the generation of a log.

PRJ-46558,
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-48447,
PMTR-94030

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: Improved the parser of Custom Intelligence feeds to support values written in "Camel case", where multiple words are combined without spaces, and each word begins with a capital letter.

PRJ-51511,
ODU-1248

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: Added Update 22 of Autonomous Threat Prevention Management integration Release. Refer to sk167109.

PRJ-48139,
PMTR-93683

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: Re-enabled the deprecated feature of exporting/importing Custom Intelligence feeds.

PRJ-43434,
PRHF-26673

Threat Prevention

UPDATE: It is now possible to add exceptions to external Custom Intelligence feeds.

PRJ-47916,
AVIR-1544

Anti-Virus

UPDATE: Improved Anti-Virus caching mechanism to prevent generating malicious sub-domains in Background resource categorization mode.

PRJ-49233,
PMTR-92549

SSL Network Extender

UPDATE: SSL Network Extender was updated to version 80008407.

PRJ-44244,
PMTR-87141

Mobile Access

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

  • changes in the cloud service configuration,

  • stability improvement.

PRJ-46316,
PMTR-90870

ClusterXL

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

PRJ-45338,
PMTR-88036

VPN

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

PRJ-41132,
PMTR-86206

VSX

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

PRJ-48109,
PMTR-90795

VSX

UPDATE: Changed the vsx push configuration log:

  • The log file last_vsx_push_configuration.elg now holds only the last vsx push configuration log.

  • The cyclic log file vsx_push_configuration.elg now holds all previous push configuration logs, except the last one.

PRJ-50874,
PMTR-97129

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Upgraded OpenSSL from 1.1.1u to 1.1.1w to include the latest security improvements.

PRJ-48011,
PRHF-29711

Gaia OS

UPDATE: The output of "show arp dynamic all" and "dbget ip:arpdynamic:show:0" which was previously limited to +-4450 entries, now increases dynamically.

PRJ-50198

Gaia OS

UPDATE: Gaia API updates is now installed automatically through AutoUpdater. Refer to sk165653.

PRJ-45237,
PRHF-28236

Gaia OS

UPDATE: SNMP traps for interfaces going up and going down now contains the interface name and description.

PRJ-50604,
PMTR-97169

Harmony Endpoint

UPDATE: Posture Management (Vulnerability & Patch Management) is now supported.

PRJ-45728,
PMTR-91551

Harmony Endpoint

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

PRJ-48082,
PRHF-29774

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added support for Azure Scale sets with Flexible orchestration mode.

PRJ-47189,
PRHF-28352

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added the "namespace" label to pods in Kubernetes Data Center.

PRJ-48098,
PRHF-28329

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE:

  • Enhanced the mapping performance of Azure subscriptions and the overall process of mapping Data Centers.

  • Minimized the duration required for policy updates to gateways in environments incorporating Public Data Centers (Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle-Cloud OCI, and Generic-Data-Center).

  • Updating Data Center properties requires installing the policy on only one Security Gateway.

PRJ-48764
PMTR-94130

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Added support for Data Centers in AWS il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv) region

PRJ-49997,
PMTR-95965

CloudGuard Network

UPDATE: Updated the Jetty open source library from the 9.3.6.v20151106 version to 9.4.52.v20230823.

PRJ-45772,
PMTR-90618

Scalable Platforms

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

PRJ-48197,
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-47962,
PRJ-47560

IoT

UPDATE: Enabled new docker capabilities on IoT Gateways.

PRJ-47170,
PRHF-29222

Security Management

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

PRJ-48898,
PRHF-30157

Security Management

In rare scenarios, upgrade of the Security Management Server to R81.20 fails with the "Task was interrupted because of server restart" and "DEADLOCK IN POSTGRES DETECTED!!!" messages in the cpm.elg log file.

PRJ-46700,
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-42640,
PRHF-24486

Security Management

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

PRJ-42936,
PRHF-25050

Security Management

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

PRJ-46004,
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-46829,
PRHF-28923

Security Management

In some scenarios, the "Object is no longer available" validation warning appears for updatable objects.

PRJ-45989,
PRHF-28558

Security Management

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

PRJ-46014,
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-45035,
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-44988,
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-47620,
PRHF-29494

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the /var/log/message file is filled with Clish login messages for the Admin user.

PRJ-48865,
PRHF-30091

Security Management

In multi-site Multi-Domain Security Management environments, login to SmartConsole fails if the "Read_Write_All_Profile" permission profile is deleted.

PRJ-45800,
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-47043,
PRHF-29223

Security Management

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

PRJ-47047,
PRHF-29104

Security Management

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

PRJ-47012,
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-46656,
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-46732,
PRHF-28910

Security Management

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

PRJ-41549,
PRHF-25551

Security Management

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

PRJ-48818,
PRHF-20141

Security Management

In the Revisions view, when comparing the selected revision to its previous revision, an empty screen is shown instead of a report.

PRJ-47967,
PRHF-29565

Security Management

In High Availability Security Management Server environments, outdated IPS packages are retained, which leads to a substantial increase of the database on Standby Security Management Server. Refer to sk182178.

PRJ-48788,
PRHF-30027

Security Management

SmartConsole may unexpectedly close after clicking "Install Policy" while the Compliance blade is running a full scan.

PRJ-49226,
PRHF-30300

Security Management

In some scenarios, an upgrade of the Security Management Server may fail if the import is running at 12 AM.

  • The fix will only be applied if the upgrade to this Jumbo Hotfix Take is done using a Blink image or via the Advanced Upgrade method.

PRJ-48442,
PRHF-30005

Security Management

The "set checkpoint-host" API command may fail if the host object has a VPN Tunnel interface (vpnt) defined.

PRJ-45899,
PRHF-28666

Security Management

In rare scenarios, during an IPS update, a task notification reports that a database purge failed on the Standby Security Management Server. Refer to sk180920.

PRJ-44801,
PMTR-82908

Security Management

In rare scenarios, the update_inspect_files tool may unexpectedly exit with a core dump file.

PRJ-48371,
PRHF-29850

Security Management

The "crldp_initialized"and "crldp_name" keys may be missing in the registry after running promote_util.

PRJ-45783,
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-47259,

PRJ-47236,
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-43290,
PRHF-26909

Security Management

In rare scenarios:

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

  • Publish operations may take a long time.

PRJ-46783,
PRHF-28958

Security Management

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

PRJ-48201,
PRHF-29851

Security Management

Login via API fails if the Security Management Server has multiple IP addresses and they are not defined on the Security Management Server object in SmartConsole.

PRJ-48038,
PRHF-29549

Security Management

An audit log may not be created after running Revert to Revision.

PRJ-49371,
PRHF-30255

Security Management

In environments with tens of thousands of network objects, opening and closing Security Gateway objects in SmartConsole takes a long time. Refer to sk181460.

PRJ-49196,
PRHF-30329

Security Management

In some scenarios, the CPRLIC process may unexpectedly exit without affecting the connectivity, and a core dump is generated.

PRJ-48382,
PRHF-29957

Security Management

In SmartConsole, export of policies with the "Hit count" column may get stuck.

PRJ-48692,
SL-8197

Security Management

Users may be able to configure user-defined scripts to run on the Security Management Server, although they do not have the permissions of a super-user.

PRJ-46411,
PMTR-90123

Security Management

The Security Gateway may listen to the ports used by NAT.

PRJ-50359,
PRHF-30763

Security Management

In multi-site environments, when using LDAP administrators configured on an external LDAP Server, logging into Domains on different Multi-Domain Security Management Servers in parallel, synchronization may fail with the "failed to import data" status.

PRJ-50817,
PRHF-31173

Security Management

In some scenarios, if a DAIP Gateway is registered to a VPN Community:

  • "show-vpn-communities-star" Management API command may fail.

  • sharing SmartConsole configuration with Infinity Portal fails.

PRJ-49715,
PRHF-30513

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-48705,
PRHF-29307

Security Management

In some scenarios, in High Availability Security Management Server environments, there may be increase of the database on the Security Management Server.

PRJ-49884,
PRHF-30289

Security Management

Export of the Security Management Server may fail with "Could not find workSession WORKSESSION_UID in worksession's List" message in the upgrade report.

PRJ-48162,
PMTR-93236

Security Management

The "run-script - audit log" Management API program may fail and the audit log may be missing the "performed on" field.

PRJ-42955,
PMTR-88417

Security Management

Application Control and IPS updates may take a long time.

PRJ-45441,
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-48795,

PRJ-48796

Multi-Domain Security Management

When connecting with SmartConsole to a Domain in a Multi-Domain Management environment, object pickers in Threat Prevention policy may not show available objects.

PRJ-49480,
PRHF-29987

Multi-Domain Management

When viewing Subordinate CA objects in SmartConsole:

  • Users with read-only permissions may receive a "Trusted CA" field as "not initialized" message.

  • The information under "Retrieve CRLs from" in the OPSEC PKI tab is inaccurate.

The fix requires installing SmartConsole R81.20 Build 651 (or higher).

PRJ-47039,
PRHF-29235