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FortiOS Release Notes

Known issues

Known issues

The following issues have been identified in version 7.0.12. To inquire about a particular bug or report a bug, please contact Customer Service & Support.

Anti Spam

Bug ID

Description

877613

Mark as Reject can be still chosen as an Action in an Anti-Spam Block/Allow List in the GUI.

Explicit Proxy

Bug ID

Description

817582

When there are many users authenticated by an explicit proxy policy, the Firewall Users widget can take a long time to load. This issue does not impact explicit proxy functionality.

942612

Web proxy forward server does not convert HTTP version to the original version when sending them back to the client.

Firewall

Bug ID

Description

719311

On the Policy & Objects > Firewall Policy page in 6.4.0 onwards, the IPv4 and IPv6 policy tables are combined but the custom section name (global label) is not automatically checked for duplicates. If there is a duplicate custom section name, the policy list may show empty for that section. This is a display issue only and does not impact policy traffic.

Workaround: rename the custom section to unique name between IPv4 and IPv6 policies.

843554

If the first firewall service object in the service list (based on the order in the command line table) has a protocol type of IP, the GUI may incorrectly modify its protocol number whenever a new firewall service of the same protocol type IP is created in the GUI.

This silent misconfiguration can result in unexpected behavior of firewall policies that use the impacted service. For example, some 6K and 7K platforms have firewall service ALL (protocol type IP) as the first service, and this can cause the ALL service to be modified unexpectedly.

Workaround: create a new service in the CLI, or move a non-IP type services to the top of the firewall service list. For example, if ALL is the first firewall service in the list:

config firewall service custom
    edit "unused"
        set tcp-portrange 1
    next
    move "unused" before "ALL"
end

897849

Firewall Policy list may show empty sequence grouping sections if multiple policies are sharing the same global-label.

Workaround: drag and drop the policy to the correct sequence group in the GUI, or remove the global-label for each member policy in the group except for the leading policy. For example, in the configuration, policy 2 will be automatically grouped under group1 without the need of adding the same global-label.

  • Policy 1 (global-label "group")
  • Policy 2
  • Policy 3 (global-label "group2")
  • Policy 4

FortiView

Bug ID

Description

941521

On the Dashboard > FortiView Websites page, the Category filter does not work in the Japanese GUI.

GUI

Bug ID

Description

440197

On the System > FortiGuard page, the override FortiGuard server for AntiVirus & IPS Updates shows an Unknown status, even if the server is working correctly. This is a display issue only; the override feature is working properly.

677806

On the Network > Interfaces page when VDOM mode is enabled, the Global view incorrectly shows the status of IPsec tunnel interfaces from non-management VDOMs as up. The VDOM view shows the correct status.

685431

On the Policy & Objects > Firewall Policy page, the policy list can take around 30 seconds or more to load when there is a large number (over 20 thousand) of policies.

Workaround: use the CLI to configure policies.

707589

System > Certificates list sometimes shows an incorrect reference count for a certificate, and incorrectly allows a user to delete a referenced certificate. The deletion will fail even though a success message is shown. Users should be able to delete the certificate after all references are removed.

708005

When using the SSL VPN web portal in the Firefox, users cannot paste text into the SSH terminal emulator.

Workaround: use Chrome, Edge, or Safari as the browser.

755177

When upgrading firmware from 7.0.1 to 7.0.2, the GUI incorrectly displays a warning saying this is not a valid upgrade path.

810225

An undefined error is displayed when changing an administrator password for the first time. Affected models: NP7 platforms.

853352

When viewing entries in the slide-out window of the Policy & Objects > Internet Service Database page, users cannot scroll down to the end if there are over 100000 entries.

881678

On the Network > Routing Objects page, editing a prefix list with a large number of rule entries fails with an error notification that The integer value is not within valid range.

Workaround: edit a prefix list with a large number of rule entries in the CLI.

893560

When private data encryption is enabled, the GUI may become unresponsive and HA may fail to synchronize the configuration.

898902

In the System > Administrators dialog, when there are a lot of VDOMs (over 200), the dialog can take more than one minute to load the Two-factor Authentication toggle. This issue does not affect configuring other settings in the dialog.

Workaround: use the CLI to configure two-factor-authentication under config system admin.

907041

Network > SD-WAN > SD-WAN Zones and SD-WAN Rules pages do not load if a shortcut tunnel is triggered.

Workaround: to load the Network > SD-WAN page, temporarily bring down the ADVPN shortcut tunnels, go to the Network > SD-WAN page, and bring it back up after.

HA

Bug ID

Description

818432

When private data encryption is enabled, all passwords present in the configuration fail to load and may cause HA failures.

Hyperscale

Bug ID

Description

811109

FortiGate 4200F, 4201F, 4400F, and 4401F HA1, HA2, AUX1, and AUX2 interfaces cannot be added to an LAG.

836976

Sessions being processed by hyperscale firewall policies with hardware logging may be dropped when dynamically changing the log-processor setting from hardware to host for the hardware log sever added to the hyperscale firewall policy. To avoid dropping sessions, change the log-processor setting during quiet periods.

838654

Hit count not ticking for implicit deny policy for hardware session in case of NAT46 and NAT64 traffic.

839958

service-negate does not work as expected in a hyperscale deny policy.

842659

srcaddr-negate and dstaddr-negate are not working properly for IPv6 traffic with FTS.

843132

Access control list (ACL) policies added to a hyperscale firewall VDOM that is processing traffic may take longer than expected to become effective. During a transition period, traffic that should be blocked by the new ACL policy will be allowed.

843197

Output of diagnose sys npu-session list/list-full does not mention policy route information.

843266

Diagnose command should be available to show hit_count/last_used for policy route and NPU session on hyperscale VDOM.

843305

Get PARSE SKIP ERROR=17 NPD ERR PBR ADDRESS console error log when system boots up.

844421

The diagnose firewall ippool list command does not show the correct output for overload type IP pools.

846520

NPD/LPMD process killed by out of memory killer after running mixed sessions and HA failover.

915796

With an enabled hyperscale license, in some cases with exception traffic (like ICMP error traverse), the FortiGate may experience unexpected disruptions when handling the exception traffic.

941784

Hardware session synchronization does not work on FG-480xF devices in hyperscale.

1054041

On FortiGate's in an HA environment, DHCP clients can not connect to the DHCP server.

Intrusion Prevention

Bug ID

Description

926639

Constant reloading of the shared memory external domain table is causing high CPU usage due to lock contention when reloading the table.

IPsec VPN

Bug ID

Description

761754

IPsec aggregate static route is not marked inactive if the IPsec aggregate is down.

766750

FortiGate does not accept secondary tunnel IP address in the same subnet as the primary tunnel.

Log & Report

Bug ID

Description

850642

Logs are not seen for traffic passing through the firewall caused by numerous simultaneous configuration changes.

860822

When viewing logs on the Log & Report > System Events page, filtering by domain\username does not display matching entries.

Workaround: use a double backslash (domain\\username) while filtering or searching by username only without the domain.

893199

The FortiGate does not generate deallocate/allocate logs of the first IP pool when the first IP pool has been exhausted.

932537

If Security Rating is enabled to run on schedule (every four hours), the FortiGate can unintentionally send local-out traffic to fortianalyzer.forticloud.com during the Security Rating run.

Workaround: disable on-schedule Security Rating run.

config system global
    set security-rating-run-on-schedule disable
end

Proxy

Bug ID

Description

783549

An error condition occurs in WAD caused by multiple outstanding requests sent from the client to server with UTM enabled.

1001497

FortiGate may enter conserve mode when posting a non or invalid HTTP date through web proxy.

Remote Access

Bug ID

Description

837391

FortiClient does not send the public IP address for SAML, resulting in 0.0.0.0 being shown in FortiOS and SASE.

Routing

Bug ID

Description

924940

When there are a lot of policies (several thousands), the interface member selection for the SD-WAN Zone dialog may take up to a minute to load.

Workaround: use the CLI to configure the SD-WAN zone.

Security Fabric

Bug ID

Description

614691

Slow GUI performance in large Fabric topology with over 50 downstream devices.

794703

Security Rating report for Rogue AP Detection and FortiCare Support checks show incorrect results.

862424

On a FortiGate that has large tables (over 1000 firewall policies, address, or other tables), security rating reports may cause the FortiGate to go into conserve mode.

SSL VPN

Bug ID

Description

887674

FortiGate will intermittently stop accepting new SSL VPN connections across all VDOMs.

System

Bug ID

Description

724085

Traffic passing through an EMAC VLAN interface when the parent interface is in another VDOM is blocked if NP7 offloading is enabled.

Workaround: set the auto-asic-offload option to disable in the firewall policy.

842159

FortiGate 200F interfaces stop passing traffic after some time.

847664

Console may display mce: [Hardware Error] error message after fresh image burn or reboot.

882187

FortiGate might enter conserve mode if disk logging is enabled and log-traffic all is set in a policy.

884023

When a user is logged in as a VDOM administrator with restricted access and tries to upload a certificate (System > Certificates), the Create button on the Create Certificate pane is grayed out.

901721

In a certain edge case, traffic directed towards a VLAN interface could trigger a kernel interruption.

903397

After upgrading to 7.0.11, FortiOS cannot display QSFP+ transceiver information. Affected platforms: FG-110xE, FG-220xE, FG-330xE, FG-340xE, and FG-360xE.

904486

FortiGate may display a false alarm message and subsequently initiate a reboot.

910651

All members are up on an FG-600F, but the LACP status is showing as down after upgrading.

923364

System goes into halt state with Error: Package validation failed... message in cases where there are no engine files in the FortiGate when the BIOS security level is set to 2.

Workaround: set the BIOS security level to 0 or 1.

931299

When the URL filter requests the FortiGuard (FGD) rating server address using DNS, it will try to get both A (IPv4) and AAAA (IPv6) records.

1041457

The kernel 4.19 cannot concurrently reassemble IPv4 fragments for a source IP with more than 64 destination IP addresses.

Upgrade

Bug ID

Description

925567

When upgrading multiple firmware versions in the GUI, the Follow upgrade path option does not respect the recommended upgrade path.

Web Filter

Bug ID

Description

766126

Block replacement page is not pushed automatically to replace the video content when using a video filter.

WiFi Controller

Bug ID

Description

814541

When there are extra large number of managed FortiAP devices (over 500) and large number of WiFi clients (over 5000), the Managed FortiAPs page and FortiAP Status widget can take a long time to load. This issue does not impact FortiAP operation.

904349

Unable to create FortiAP profile in the GUI for dual-5G mode FortiAP U231F/U431F models.

Workaround: use the CLI to update the profile to dual-5G mode.

ZTNA

Bug ID

Description

819987

SMB drive mapping made through a ZTNA access proxy is inaccessible after rebooting.

848222

ZTNA TCP forwarding is not working when a real server is configured with an FQDN address type.

An FQDN address type that can resolve public IPs is not recommended for ZTNA TCP forwarding on real servers because the defined internal DNS database zone is trying to override it at the same time. By doing so, the internal private address may not take effect after rebooting, and causes a ZTNA TCP forwarding failure due to the real server not being found.

Known issues

Known issues

The following issues have been identified in version 7.0.12. To inquire about a particular bug or report a bug, please contact Customer Service & Support.

Anti Spam

Bug ID

Description

877613

Mark as Reject can be still chosen as an Action in an Anti-Spam Block/Allow List in the GUI.

Explicit Proxy

Bug ID

Description

817582

When there are many users authenticated by an explicit proxy policy, the Firewall Users widget can take a long time to load. This issue does not impact explicit proxy functionality.

942612

Web proxy forward server does not convert HTTP version to the original version when sending them back to the client.

Firewall

Bug ID

Description

719311

On the Policy & Objects > Firewall Policy page in 6.4.0 onwards, the IPv4 and IPv6 policy tables are combined but the custom section name (global label) is not automatically checked for duplicates. If there is a duplicate custom section name, the policy list may show empty for that section. This is a display issue only and does not impact policy traffic.

Workaround: rename the custom section to unique name between IPv4 and IPv6 policies.

843554

If the first firewall service object in the service list (based on the order in the command line table) has a protocol type of IP, the GUI may incorrectly modify its protocol number whenever a new firewall service of the same protocol type IP is created in the GUI.

This silent misconfiguration can result in unexpected behavior of firewall policies that use the impacted service. For example, some 6K and 7K platforms have firewall service ALL (protocol type IP) as the first service, and this can cause the ALL service to be modified unexpectedly.

Workaround: create a new service in the CLI, or move a non-IP type services to the top of the firewall service list. For example, if ALL is the first firewall service in the list:

config firewall service custom
    edit "unused"
        set tcp-portrange 1
    next
    move "unused" before "ALL"
end

897849

Firewall Policy list may show empty sequence grouping sections if multiple policies are sharing the same global-label.

Workaround: drag and drop the policy to the correct sequence group in the GUI, or remove the global-label for each member policy in the group except for the leading policy. For example, in the configuration, policy 2 will be automatically grouped under group1 without the need of adding the same global-label.

  • Policy 1 (global-label "group")
  • Policy 2
  • Policy 3 (global-label "group2")
  • Policy 4

FortiView

Bug ID

Description

941521

On the Dashboard > FortiView Websites page, the Category filter does not work in the Japanese GUI.

GUI

Bug ID

Description

440197

On the System > FortiGuard page, the override FortiGuard server for AntiVirus & IPS Updates shows an Unknown status, even if the server is working correctly. This is a display issue only; the override feature is working properly.

677806

On the Network > Interfaces page when VDOM mode is enabled, the Global view incorrectly shows the status of IPsec tunnel interfaces from non-management VDOMs as up. The VDOM view shows the correct status.

685431

On the Policy & Objects > Firewall Policy page, the policy list can take around 30 seconds or more to load when there is a large number (over 20 thousand) of policies.

Workaround: use the CLI to configure policies.

707589

System > Certificates list sometimes shows an incorrect reference count for a certificate, and incorrectly allows a user to delete a referenced certificate. The deletion will fail even though a success message is shown. Users should be able to delete the certificate after all references are removed.

708005

When using the SSL VPN web portal in the Firefox, users cannot paste text into the SSH terminal emulator.

Workaround: use Chrome, Edge, or Safari as the browser.

755177

When upgrading firmware from 7.0.1 to 7.0.2, the GUI incorrectly displays a warning saying this is not a valid upgrade path.

810225

An undefined error is displayed when changing an administrator password for the first time. Affected models: NP7 platforms.

853352

When viewing entries in the slide-out window of the Policy & Objects > Internet Service Database page, users cannot scroll down to the end if there are over 100000 entries.

881678

On the Network > Routing Objects page, editing a prefix list with a large number of rule entries fails with an error notification that The integer value is not within valid range.

Workaround: edit a prefix list with a large number of rule entries in the CLI.

893560

When private data encryption is enabled, the GUI may become unresponsive and HA may fail to synchronize the configuration.

898902

In the System > Administrators dialog, when there are a lot of VDOMs (over 200), the dialog can take more than one minute to load the Two-factor Authentication toggle. This issue does not affect configuring other settings in the dialog.

Workaround: use the CLI to configure two-factor-authentication under config system admin.

907041

Network > SD-WAN > SD-WAN Zones and SD-WAN Rules pages do not load if a shortcut tunnel is triggered.

Workaround: to load the Network > SD-WAN page, temporarily bring down the ADVPN shortcut tunnels, go to the Network > SD-WAN page, and bring it back up after.

HA

Bug ID

Description

818432

When private data encryption is enabled, all passwords present in the configuration fail to load and may cause HA failures.

Hyperscale

Bug ID

Description

811109

FortiGate 4200F, 4201F, 4400F, and 4401F HA1, HA2, AUX1, and AUX2 interfaces cannot be added to an LAG.

836976

Sessions being processed by hyperscale firewall policies with hardware logging may be dropped when dynamically changing the log-processor setting from hardware to host for the hardware log sever added to the hyperscale firewall policy. To avoid dropping sessions, change the log-processor setting during quiet periods.

838654

Hit count not ticking for implicit deny policy for hardware session in case of NAT46 and NAT64 traffic.

839958

service-negate does not work as expected in a hyperscale deny policy.

842659

srcaddr-negate and dstaddr-negate are not working properly for IPv6 traffic with FTS.

843132

Access control list (ACL) policies added to a hyperscale firewall VDOM that is processing traffic may take longer than expected to become effective. During a transition period, traffic that should be blocked by the new ACL policy will be allowed.

843197

Output of diagnose sys npu-session list/list-full does not mention policy route information.

843266

Diagnose command should be available to show hit_count/last_used for policy route and NPU session on hyperscale VDOM.

843305

Get PARSE SKIP ERROR=17 NPD ERR PBR ADDRESS console error log when system boots up.

844421

The diagnose firewall ippool list command does not show the correct output for overload type IP pools.

846520

NPD/LPMD process killed by out of memory killer after running mixed sessions and HA failover.

915796

With an enabled hyperscale license, in some cases with exception traffic (like ICMP error traverse), the FortiGate may experience unexpected disruptions when handling the exception traffic.

941784

Hardware session synchronization does not work on FG-480xF devices in hyperscale.

1054041

On FortiGate's in an HA environment, DHCP clients can not connect to the DHCP server.

Intrusion Prevention

Bug ID

Description

926639

Constant reloading of the shared memory external domain table is causing high CPU usage due to lock contention when reloading the table.

IPsec VPN

Bug ID

Description

761754

IPsec aggregate static route is not marked inactive if the IPsec aggregate is down.

766750

FortiGate does not accept secondary tunnel IP address in the same subnet as the primary tunnel.

Log & Report

Bug ID

Description

850642

Logs are not seen for traffic passing through the firewall caused by numerous simultaneous configuration changes.

860822

When viewing logs on the Log & Report > System Events page, filtering by domain\username does not display matching entries.

Workaround: use a double backslash (domain\\username) while filtering or searching by username only without the domain.

893199

The FortiGate does not generate deallocate/allocate logs of the first IP pool when the first IP pool has been exhausted.

932537

If Security Rating is enabled to run on schedule (every four hours), the FortiGate can unintentionally send local-out traffic to fortianalyzer.forticloud.com during the Security Rating run.

Workaround: disable on-schedule Security Rating run.

config system global
    set security-rating-run-on-schedule disable
end

Proxy

Bug ID

Description

783549

An error condition occurs in WAD caused by multiple outstanding requests sent from the client to server with UTM enabled.

1001497

FortiGate may enter conserve mode when posting a non or invalid HTTP date through web proxy.

Remote Access

Bug ID

Description

837391

FortiClient does not send the public IP address for SAML, resulting in 0.0.0.0 being shown in FortiOS and SASE.

Routing

Bug ID

Description

924940

When there are a lot of policies (several thousands), the interface member selection for the SD-WAN Zone dialog may take up to a minute to load.

Workaround: use the CLI to configure the SD-WAN zone.

Security Fabric

Bug ID

Description

614691

Slow GUI performance in large Fabric topology with over 50 downstream devices.

794703

Security Rating report for Rogue AP Detection and FortiCare Support checks show incorrect results.

862424

On a FortiGate that has large tables (over 1000 firewall policies, address, or other tables), security rating reports may cause the FortiGate to go into conserve mode.

SSL VPN

Bug ID

Description

887674

FortiGate will intermittently stop accepting new SSL VPN connections across all VDOMs.

System

Bug ID

Description

724085

Traffic passing through an EMAC VLAN interface when the parent interface is in another VDOM is blocked if NP7 offloading is enabled.

Workaround: set the auto-asic-offload option to disable in the firewall policy.

842159

FortiGate 200F interfaces stop passing traffic after some time.

847664

Console may display mce: [Hardware Error] error message after fresh image burn or reboot.

882187

FortiGate might enter conserve mode if disk logging is enabled and log-traffic all is set in a policy.

884023

When a user is logged in as a VDOM administrator with restricted access and tries to upload a certificate (System > Certificates), the Create button on the Create Certificate pane is grayed out.

901721

In a certain edge case, traffic directed towards a VLAN interface could trigger a kernel interruption.

903397

After upgrading to 7.0.11, FortiOS cannot display QSFP+ transceiver information. Affected platforms: FG-110xE, FG-220xE, FG-330xE, FG-340xE, and FG-360xE.

904486

FortiGate may display a false alarm message and subsequently initiate a reboot.

910651

All members are up on an FG-600F, but the LACP status is showing as down after upgrading.

923364

System goes into halt state with Error: Package validation failed... message in cases where there are no engine files in the FortiGate when the BIOS security level is set to 2.

Workaround: set the BIOS security level to 0 or 1.

931299

When the URL filter requests the FortiGuard (FGD) rating server address using DNS, it will try to get both A (IPv4) and AAAA (IPv6) records.

1041457

The kernel 4.19 cannot concurrently reassemble IPv4 fragments for a source IP with more than 64 destination IP addresses.

Upgrade

Bug ID

Description

925567

When upgrading multiple firmware versions in the GUI, the Follow upgrade path option does not respect the recommended upgrade path.

Web Filter

Bug ID

Description

766126

Block replacement page is not pushed automatically to replace the video content when using a video filter.

WiFi Controller

Bug ID

Description

814541

When there are extra large number of managed FortiAP devices (over 500) and large number of WiFi clients (over 5000), the Managed FortiAPs page and FortiAP Status widget can take a long time to load. This issue does not impact FortiAP operation.

904349

Unable to create FortiAP profile in the GUI for dual-5G mode FortiAP U231F/U431F models.

Workaround: use the CLI to update the profile to dual-5G mode.

ZTNA

Bug ID

Description

819987

SMB drive mapping made through a ZTNA access proxy is inaccessible after rebooting.

848222

ZTNA TCP forwarding is not working when a real server is configured with an FQDN address type.

An FQDN address type that can resolve public IPs is not recommended for ZTNA TCP forwarding on real servers because the defined internal DNS database zone is trying to override it at the same time. By doing so, the internal private address may not take effect after rebooting, and causes a ZTNA TCP forwarding failure due to the real server not being found.