Splunk® Enterprise Security

Release Notes

Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) versions 6.0.0, 6.0.1, and 6.3.0 are no longer available for download from Splunkbase as of April 15, 2021. Please upgrade to the latest version of Splunk Enterprise Security to avoid any potential issues with Assets and Identity management.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Enterprise Security. For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

Known Issues for Splunk Enterprise Security

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


Date filed Issue number Description
2020-07-30 SOLNESS-23521 Identity Management: Only transforms from specific apps are being displayed on "New Asset" modal
2020-07-14 SOLNESS-23451 Notable Event Framework: Searches converted from XS to MLTK did not have their tokens updated

Workaround:
Update the rule_description for the following searches.


[Network - Unusual Volume of Network Activity - Rule]
action.notable.param.rule_description = An unusual volume of network activity was detected. $src_count$ unique sources have generated network traffic in the past 15 minutes and $total_count$ network events have been observed in the same time period.



[Network - Substantial Increase in Port Activity (By Destination) - Rule]
action.notable.param.rule_description = A statistically significant increase in the volume of activity on port $dest_port$ was noted. Today's value is $dest_port_traffic_count$.



[Network - Substantial Increase in an Event - Rule] 
action.notable.param.rule_description = A statistically significant increase in the volume of $signature$ events was noted. Today's value is $ids_attacks$.
2020-05-13 SOLNESS-22828 Notable event status or owner sometimes are wrong because of size of incident_review collection

Workaround:
Set max_rows_per_query in limits.conf to a size greater than the size of the incident_review_lookup collection and restart Splunk.

To check this:

index=_introspection host+<ES SH> sourcetype=kvstore "data.ns"="SA-ThreatIntelligence.incident_review" | stats max(data.count) AS count

And if this count is bigger than the max_rows_per_query limit in limits.conf, increase it on the search head(s):

limits.conf:
[kvstore]
max_rows_per_query = <something bigger than the count above>

and restart Splunk afterwards.

2020-05-11 SOLNESS-22809 CustomSearchBuilder: Retention component for kvstore backed search-driven-lookup not working
2020-04-09 SOLNESS-22356 Suppressing notable event gives a javascript error when the title contains special characters such as

Workaround:
Update the Correlation Search to remove a list of special characters that have special meaning in regex, so the title of the Notable Event will not have these characters:
[\^$.|?*+()


2020-04-02 SOLNESS-22269, SOLNESS-21618 CSB build request includes query string + lookup count exceed
2020-03-23 SOLNESS-22110 Threat Intelligence: Maxmind ASN database can no longer be consumed
2020-02-28 SOLNESS-21907, SOLNESS-21911 Threat Intelligence Manager: Incomplete/Orphaned stanzas will cause the manager to exit
2020-02-23 SOLNESS-21845 Entities merge on previous foreign keys
2020-02-20 SOLNESS-21817, SOLNESS-21910 When you add more than 30 statuses in Notable Status Configuration and then try to change earlier ones, you get an error message "Notable status of label <number> does not exist."

Workaround:
Manually clean up reviewstatuses.conf to reduce number of statuses down to 30 or less:
./etc/apps/SA-ThreatIntelligence/local/reviewstatuses.conf
./etc/apps/SplunkEnterpriseSecuritySuite/local/reviewstatuses.conf
2020-02-13 SOLNESS-21783 Incident Review does not load when read permissions on pertinent lookups are limited to select roles
2019-12-13 SOLNESS-21001 Identity Management: Inferred/Implicit "identity" key values can cause unintended identity record merges

Workaround:
In ES 6.0 we merge Asset and Identity records which have overlapping secondary keys ("asset" and "identity" fields respectively). When this is combined with inferred/implicit key values based on email, email_short and/or convention based mapping, it's possible that unintended records are merged.

If you are *not* interested in the inferred/implicit identity values (i.e. email, email_short), simply disable on an input-by-input basis by using the "Asset and Identity Management" UI to uncheck or remove conventions as needed for each input.
If you are interested in the inferred/implicit identity values, consider relocating items which overlap into their own identity_manager input such that conventions can be disabled just for this specific input.

2019-12-10 SOLNESS-20951, SOLNESS-20994 Postinstall fails when upgrading due to error enabling modular inputs

Workaround:
The enablement of modular inputs during post-install can lead to failures if the role performing the install is missing capabilities.


Verify the role being used to install (i.e. role_admin) inherits the additional roles shipped by ES (ess_admin, ess_analyst, ess_user) and re-run setup.

2019-03-15 SOLNESS-18377, SPL-167855 Workbench: custom visualizations don't work in workbench
2018-10-03 SOLNESS-16682, SPL-170703 Internal Error: Missing a search command before *
Last modified on 12 March, 2021
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise Security: 6.0.1


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