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In Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and therefore also in CentOS as well as TufinOS) a new vulnerability has been found.

An industry-wide issue has been found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks.
See more details here: Speculative Store Bypass and Rogue System Register Read.

This issue will be addressed in TufinOS 2.17 and not by a patch for 2.16. The reasons are a local attack vector and a high attack complexity. The second flaw is rated with a low base score.

So in Tufin 2.17 these issues are addressed. This version is planned for August 2018.
The release of this version will be published by Tufin - and here in this Blog.

 

 

 

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and therefore also in CentOS as well as TufinOS) a command injection flaw has been found in the NetworkManager integration script included in the DHCP Client packages.
It allows attackers spoofing responses of a DHCP Server to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of root on vulnerable systems using NetworkManager and configured to obtain network configuration via DHCP.
Further information can be found at Red Hat under CVE-2018-1111 as well as at Tufin.

Since TufinOS 1.x isn't supported any more, no fix will be published.
In TufinOS 2.x this issue is addressed in TufinOS 2.16. Since this is the current version from now, the upgrade should also be done if no DHCP Client packages are used.

Please be aware that when using TOS in HA configuration, starting with TufinOS 2.16 the upgrade can be done in an easier way as before.

 

 

 

Tufin has released the first version of the Tufin Orchestration Suite in 2018: R18-1. TOS 18-1 is available as GA now, delivering some improvements, e.g.

Cloud

  • SecureTrack
    Support of AWS AssumeRole as part of the AWS Security Token Service
  • SecureTrack
    Support of the latest Microsoft Azure SDK 1.2.0

Security Policy Change Automation and Orchestration

  • SecureTrack, SecureChange
    Rule Recertification Automation by a specific workflow
  • SecureTrack, SecureChange
    Cisco Firepower Automation (including Target Suggestion, Risk Analysis, Designer and Verifier)
  • SecureChange
    New Workflow Customization Triggers (e.g. when Automatic Step fails, Pre-Assignment Script)
  • SecureChange
    Enhancements for Manual Target Selection
  • SecureTrack, SecureChange
    Stealth Rule is considered now by Designer

Security, Risk, and Compliance

  • SecureTrack
    Automatic Policy Generator (APG) for Palo Alto Panorama and Fortinet FortiManager

Devices and Platforms

  • SecureTrack
    Dynamic Routing Support for Palo Alto and Fortinet
  • SecureTrack, SecureChange
    Extended Generic NAT for Palo Alto
  • SecureTrack, SecureChange
    Topology Support for Cisco Firepower
  • Support of new devices
    • Fortinet FortiManager 5.4.4
    • Fortinet FortiGate 5.2.11
    • F5 13.0
    • Cisco Security Manager 4.15
    • Cisco Firepower 6.2.3
    • Microsoft Azure SDK 1.2.0

REST API

  • Improvements for SecureTrack
    • Parameter show_members for Network Object APIs
    • Network Topology APIs for NSX
    • Retrieve Total Available Records
    • Offline Device APIs
  • Improvements for SecureChange
    • new Tickets API - Confirm

 

Further improvements as well as corrections are included.
The latest version of the Tufin Orchestration Suite can be found at the Tufin Portal: https://portal.tufin.com

 

 

The Interactive Map of Tufin SecureTrack allows to find a Path from A to B combined with a service / protocol / application.
This has the advantage that matching rules of firewalls involved are shown also.

Using earlier versions, it was very easy to select a specific service, e.g. tcp:8080
This is still stated in the (i), but when a newer version is used, the Button "Find Path" is still greyed out when some information is provided in the "Service" field.

So it seems that a search isn't possible...
Tufin has changed the use of this field, so please be sure to type "protocol:port" as needed and press <return> afterwards.
Only then the configured Service is taken by the system - and therefore only then a search in the Interactive Map is possible.

 

 

 

 

It's quite a good feature that reports in SecureTrack can be generated automatically and sent by E-Mail to recipients.
Sometimes the time mentioned in the reports seems to be wrong, even if following time settings are correct and all the same:

  • PC of the user  
  • SecureTrack Server
  • Monitored Device reported on

Even if all these time settings are ok, it might happen that e.g. the report is sent at 16:40 while the time in the report itself shows 17:40.

The reason for this behaviour is that PostgreSQL has another time zone configured. By default the time zone in TufinOS is "Israel".
This can be changed using these steps: 

Stop services

  • # service crond stop
  • # service tufin-jobs stop
  • # service jms stop
  • # service postgresql-9.4 stop

Edit configuration file

  • Backup and edit the file /var/lib/pgsql/9.4/data/postgresql.conf
    find the settings for
         log_timezone ='Israel'    
         timezone     = 'Israel'
    and change them to your time zone, e.g. 'UTC' or 'Europe/Berlin' (the timezone needs to be listed in /usr/share/zoneinfo)

Start services

  • # service postgresql-9.4 start
  • # service jms start
  • # service tufin-jobs start
  • # service crond start
  • # service tomcat restart

After the services are started again in the correct order, the time used in reports should be correct. Restarting tomcat is necessary because otherwise the time of ticket creation in SecureChange isn't correct.

Hint: If the postresql service doesn't start, check the correct spelling of the time zone configured.

 

 

 

 

 

Working with SecureTrack mainly means to work with a Browser connected to the SecureTrack Server. If nothing is done, an automatic logout is initiated by the system. The time untli this logout happens, can be configured.

Sometimes a logout from the WebUI happens while the administrator works. This should not happen and seems to be a "feature" of versions up to and including 17-2.
With 17-3 and subsequent versions Tufin has changed the authentication method to Keycloak. These versions don't show this effect any more.

If there is a problem with automatic logout while working with the WebUI, an upgrade to 17-3 or newer is recommended.