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IPS - new signature's action set to default instead of the action specified in rule

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Hello.

I have a general IPS profile with a rule (named block-crit,high) which includes all signatures with severity 'critical' and 'high'. Action for the rule is set to 'block'. I have automatic updates on for IPS signatures. Yesterday a new signature (OpenSSL SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability) was released with severity critical. When I checked my IPS profile today i noticed that signature was correctly included in above rule (block-crit,high) but the action for this signature was set to 'default (alert)' despite the action for rule being 'block'.

Is this expected behaviour? Are all new signatures set to default action? Can you set new signatures to block?

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Best regards,

Simon Antonic

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santonic


To add to the thread, the rules order in Vulnerability protection profile depends on the action field. For a given signature, the action taken is the most strict action match.

Thanks

Yes, I understand how security policy and security profiles work. I was just wondering about rules inside specific security profile in cases when one signature matches more than one rule.

So far I got 2 answers:

- rules inside security profile are matched from top to bottom

- action is set by the most strict rule for given signature

Can someone confirm which is correct?

santonic


The action is set by the most strict rule for given signature. This was confirmed by the product management team.


Thanks

Cool, thanx for confirmation!

tshiv

We did some testing and we found out that rule order does matter in IPS profile. So if a signature matches 2 rules, the action will be set by first rule it hits, matching the rules from top to bottom.

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