Secure Web Gateway 11.2.7 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 11.2.7 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-4360	PD Storage: Cluster message has been optimizated.
WP-4840	Update of the CRLs is working normal.
WP-4988	Fixed issue with detection of PDF files with incremental updates.
WP-5067	Sub rule sets are no longer deleted when importing a rule set via REST API
WP-5108	Core dump issue related NHP and connection timeout has been fixed.
WP-5154	A new environment variable is provided to control(enable/disable) creation of UnSecure Netlogon channel. Env Variable set: "MWG_ALLOW_UNSECURE_NETLOGON"="NO" {Not-Allows unsecure NETLOGON} "MWG_ALLOW_UNSECURE_NETLOGON"="YES" {Allows unsecure NETLOGON for DC's backward compatibility}
WP-5186	Fixed the following scenarios when secure NHP is used for plain HTTP requests: If multiple NHP’s are configured and TLS handshake or certificate verification fails, then next nhp in the list is not tried. If multiple requests are received over persistent client connection, then SWG switches to switches to non-secure NHP when server sends close notify alert.

Vulnerabilities Fixed

Reference

Description

WP-5100
WP-5164

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: