Known Issues for Splunk Enterprise Security

The following are issues and workarounds for this version of Splunk Enterprise Security.

Highlighted issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2018-02-20	SOLNESS-14637	Splunk Web doesn't start after upgrading Splunk Enterprise Security Workaround: Remove Advanced XML module folder and contents from the installation. For instance: $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/SA-Utils /appserver/modules/SOLNLookupEditor

Uncategorized issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2019-10-14	SOLNESS-20459	dm_accel_settings manager page still exposes deprecated manual_rebuilds parameter
2019-10-02	SOLNESS-20348	Per Panel Filters: When applied prevent results from being shown Workaround: Do not use per-panel filtering on the Threat Activity page or disable it by nulling out the ppf token in DA-ESS-ThreatIntelligence/default/data/ui/views/threat_activity.xml <set token="ppf"></set>
2019-09-30	SOLNESS-20299	Bug in libtaxii causing TLS handshake failure on TAXII feeds Workaround: Update libtaxii to version 1.1.114 in SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/SA-ThreatIntelligence/contrib
2019-09-19	SOLNESS-20202	Certificate Manager doesn't permit .key Workaround: The app_certs_rest_handler permits an extensible file extension whitelist. For instance, if you want to be able to submit ".key" files. ## SA-Utils/local/restmap.conf [script:app_certs_rest_handler] script.param = {"extensions": [".arm", ".ca-bundle", ".cer", ".crt", ".der", ".p7b", ".p7s", ".pem", ".pfx", ".key"], "max_size": 1000000}
2019-09-13	SOLNESS-20145	Expired User Activity picks up splunkd search logs via audittrail
2019-08-23	SOLNESS-19854, SOLNESS-20018	Attempt to 'stop managing' produces an error : coud not be found
2019-07-04	SOLNESS-19368	iplocation has a field called 'lon' in Splunk and 'long' in Enterprise Security
2019-06-13	SOLNESS-19167, SOLNESS-19186	Next Steps disappear when creating Short ID.
2019-05-14	SOLNESS-18917	PDF printout of Investigations timeline (.../ess_investigation?id=*&visual=timeline) does not match timeline (not in chronological order)
2019-05-03	SOLNESS-18821	Asset/Identity Investigators on first load progress balls on bottom of page and side of page need to be removed
2019-04-26	SOLNESS-18776, SOLNESS-18621	*threat intelligence* definition names containing special characters are being ignored Workaround: Avoid using threat intelligence names having a "." or an "&" character in it.
2019-04-12	SOLNESS-18662	whois modular input does not permit realm specifications for api_user or proxy_user Workaround: Remove realm from credential.
2019-04-12	SOLNESS-18661	Hardcoded http URI in whois_handlers.py
2019-04-08	SOLNESS-18603	Incident Review: eventCount does not match resultCount causing display issues (such as events being displayed twice) Workaround: Set phased_execution_mode to singlethreaded ## limits.conf [search] phased_execution_mode = singlethreaded
2019-03-29	SOLNESS-18523, SOLNESS-18521, SOLNESS-18529	Adaptive Response's are being truncated in the correlation search editor page
2019-03-29	SOLNESS-18521, SOLNESS-18523	Adaptive Response's are being truncated in the correlation search editor page
2019-03-28	SOLNESS-18518, SOLNESS-18993	ES AR UI fully breaks on single "bad" AR HTML UI
2019-03-13	SOLNESS-18400	Correlation Search Editor does not properly read throttling window duration
2019-02-19	SOLNESS-18079	Port And Protocol Tracker Lookup Gen isn't tracking allowed ports
2019-02-12	SOLNESS-17965	"Email Address Matches" generating search not domain matching properly Workaround: The following override can be applied locally or via the UI: ## DA-ESS-ThreatIntelligence/local/savedsearches.conf [Threat - Email Address Matches - Threat Gen] search = | `tstats` values(sourcetype),values(All_Certificates.src),values(All_Certificates.dest) from datamodel=Certificates.All_Certificates by All_Certificates.SSL.ssl_issuer_email | eval email='All_Certificates.SSL.ssl_issuer_email' | eval threat_match_field="ssl_issuer_email" | `tstats` append=true values(sourcetype),values(All_Certificates.src),values(All_Certificates.dest) from datamodel=Certificates.All_Certificates by All_Certificates.SSL.ssl_subject_email | eval email=if(isnull(email),'All_Certificates.SSL.ssl_subject_email',email) | eval threat_match_field=if(isnull(threat_match_field),"ssl_subject_email",threat_match_field) | `sistats_values_rename(All_Certificates.src,src)` | `sistats_values_rename(All_Certificates.dest,dest)` | `tstats` append=true values(sourcetype),values(All_Email.src),values(All_Email.dest) from datamodel=Email.All_Email by All_Email.src_user | eval email=if(isnull(email),'All_Email.src_user',email) | eval threat_match_field=if(isnull(threat_match_field),"src_user",threat_match_field) | `tstats` append=true values(sourcetype),values(All_Email.src),values(All_Email.dest) from datamodel=Email.All_Email by All_Email.recipient | eval email=if(isnull(email),'All_Email.recipient',email) | eval threat_match_field=if(isnull(threat_match_field),"recipient",threat_match_field) | `sistats_values_rename(All_Email.src,src)` | `sistats_values_rename(All_Email.dest,dest)` | stats values(sourcetype) as sourcetype,values(src) as src,values(dest) as dest by email,threat_match_field | extract cim_email_domain | `truncate_domain_dedup(email_domain,truncated_email)` | lookup update=true threatintel_by_email email OUTPUT | lookup update=true threatintel_by_email_wildcard email OUTPUTNEW | lookup update=true threatintel_by_domain domain as email_domain OUTPUTNEW | lookup update=true threatintel_by_domain domain as truncated_email_domain OUTPUTNEW | search threat_collection_key=* | `mvtruncate(src)` | `mvtruncate(dest)` | `zipexpand_threat_matches` | table sourcetype,src,dest,email,threat*,weight
2019-02-07	SOLNESS-17946	Security Domains CSV (security_domains.csv) overwritten during upgrade
2019-01-22	SOLNESS-17734	Custom app won't show up in Content Management App dropdown unless there is at least one shared savedsearch in the app
2019-01-07	SOLNESS-17419	When upgrading ES from 4.7.2 to 5.2.1, system hang on "Disable add-ons". Workaround: Issue occurs on windows. Setting splunkdConnectionTimeout = 600 in $SPLUNK_HOME/SplunkEnterpriseSecuritySuite/local/web.conf will often fix the issue. If ES upgrade still fails then manually disable each app before updating (see link below). https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.3/Admin/Managingappobjects#Update_an_app_or_add-on_in_the_CLI
2018-12-26	SOLNESS-17396	New Analytic Story page will show error when Splunk in configured with non-default Management Port
2018-12-20	SOLNESS-17368	Incident Review: Filter on "edit events" modal does not work / no focus
2018-12-17	SOLNESS-17291, RTO-337	expandtoken errors with "field larger than field limit" Workaround: # The default of the csv module is 128KB; upping to 10MB. See SPL-12117 for the background on issues surrounding field sizes. (this method is new in python 2.5) csv.field_size_limit(10485760) https://answers.splunk.com/answers/709747/error-field-larger-than-field-limit-131072.html#answer-709749
2018-11-21	SOLNESS-17081	Notable events are populated with info_max_time="+Infinity", info_min_time="0.000" with alert.digest_mode=0 in the savedsearch.conf
2018-10-04	SOLNESS-16696	Error in error logging in managed_nav_rest_handler.py
2018-10-03	SOLNESS-16682, SPL-170703	Internal Error: Missing a search command before *