Release notes for update package 1236-5242

This update package improves the detection capabilities of the Forcepoint NGFW system.

RELEASE DATE:    Thursday March 26, 2020
MD5 CHECKSUM:    9a2499a19abd6c4e09f7888665b8aa21
SHA1 CHECKSUM:    2f2b14edcbe7590787910df94aefb88316230d59
SHA256 CHECKSUM:    b2937355fb57c531e9935988d0b0e9611c4f68fa66b5f5218697929bce1e5b2f

UPDATE CRITICALITY:    MODERATE

MINIMUM SOFTWARE VERSIONS
- Forcepoint NGFW Security Management Center:    5.10.1.10027
- Forcepoint NGFW:    5.5.1.9848

Jump to: Detected Attacks Other Changes

DETECTED ATTACKS

Updated detected attacks:

HTTP Normalized Request-Line

RiskVulnerability/SituationReferencesRelated FingerprintSituation TypeChange Description
High Microsoft-Exchange-Validation-Key-Remote-Code-Execution CVE-2020-0688 HTTP_CRL-Microsoft-Exchange-Validation-Key-Remote-Code-Execution Suspected Compromise
Category tag situation Suspected Compromise added
Category tag situation Potential Compromise removed

LIST OF OTHER CHANGES:

Updated objects:

TypeNameChanges
Network ElementTOR exit nodes
SituationAnalyzer_Microsoft-Windows-HTTP2-Window_Update-Flood-Denial-of-Service
Severity: 7->5
Description has changed
Category tag situation Potential Denial of Service added
Category tag situation Suspected Compromise removed
Parameter alarm_threshold changed
SituationAnalyzer_Microsoft-Windows-HTTP2-Resource-Loop-Denial-Of-Serice
Parameter alarm_threshold changed
SituationAnalyzer_Microsoft-Windows-HTTP2-Reset-Flood-Denial-of-Service
Parameter alarm_threshold changed
SituationAnalyzer_Microsoft-Windows-HTTP2-Ping-Flood-Denial-of-Service
Parameter alarm_threshold changed
IPListAmazon AMAZON eu-west-2
IPListAmazon AMAZON cn-northwest-1
IPListAmazon AMAZON eu-central-1
IPListAmazon EC2 cn-northwest-1
IPListTOR relay nodes IP Address List
IPListAmazon EC2
IPListMicrosoft Office 365 Skype for Business Online and Microsoft Teams
IPListTOR exit nodes IP Address List
IPListAmazon AMAZON

ACTIVATING THE UPDATE PACKAGE

  1. Ensure that the SHA256 checksum of the update package are correct.
  2. Open Admin Tools in the SMC GUI client.
  3. Right-click on the Updates folder and select "Import Update Packages".
  4. Right-click on the imported package and select Activate.
  5. Reinstall the system policy to take the changes into use. Custom policies may require manual updating.

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