Secure Web Gateway 11.2.15 Release Notes

New Features in the 11.2 Release

This release provides the following new features. For resolved issues in this release and the update releases, see further below.

NOTE: Secure Web Gateway 11.2 is provided as a main release.

For information about how to install this release, see the Upgrading to a New Version - Controlled Release. If you are installing the Secure Web Gateway appliance software for the first time, see Installing Secure Web Gateway for the First Time.

When configuring rules for your web policy, you can use these new items:

A new property to expose encrypted archive directory listings.
A new property to store the rule and rule set names or IDs that were processed at the end of the request and response filtering cycles.

Data that is collected by the GTI diagnosis script of the operating system is included in the output feedback file.

Support for rolling TCPdump collection option is now available in the UI. For more details, see Create a packet tracing file. For more details on Performing Packet Tracing in Secure Web Gateway, see Performing Packet Tracing in Secure Web Gateway SWG

When configuring an HTTP Proxy Port, you can disable the Enable FTP over HTTP option. The option is enabled by default.

The following enhancements have been added to SSL Tap configuration:

The destination port number is not overwritten by default when tapped packets are created.
The destination MAC address can be customized when tapped packets are broadcast.
SSL tapping now supports HTTP2 on Secure Web Gateway.

Excel 4 macros are now detected in media type filtering.

IP spoofing is supported for HTTP(S) when setting up proxies in Explicit Proxy or L2 Transparent mode.

For a list of issues that are currently known, see SWG 11.x.x Known Issues and Workaround

This release resolves known issues.

NOTE: Secure Web Gateway 11.2.15 is provided as a main release.

For information about how to upgrade to this release, see Upgrading to a new version – Main Release.

JIRA issue numbers are provided in the reference columns.

Reference	Description
WP-5747	new media type entries have been added to media type system lists to support new Content-Type header - application/oleobject, application/x-msdownload, text/vbscript
WP-5758	Save changes no longer fails for WebHybrid Sync, UCEhybrid Sync and, few cluster management field. It is recommended to update the previous passwords set in the Configuration files. For more details see, SB10406
WP-5765	Save changes no longer fail after password encryption for file typesOps.xml. It is recommended to update the previous passwords set in the Configuration files. For more details see, SB10406

Vulnerabilities Fixed

Reference

Description

WP-5628

This Secure Web Gateway release includes updates addressing publicly disclosed CVEs, regardless of whether a CVE has been shown to impact customers.

The following medium and higher-level CVEs (CVSS 3.0 >= 4) were involved:

CVE-2022-40982 - Information exposure through microarchitectural state after transient execution in certain vector execution units for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

The release fixes Vulnerability for the Affected E-Models.