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jcastellanos
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June 16, 2025

Troubleshooting Tip: FortiProxy unexpectedly bans source ip: banned_src='dlp'

  • June 16, 2025
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Description This article describes how to handle a scenario where FortiProxy bans a source IP randomly without any configuration related to quarantine.
Scope FortiProxy 7.4.x.
Solution
A different source IP may be banned without any quarantine feature enabled.
 
The admin may observe a log with duration=0:
 
date=2025-03-18 time=12:41:27 devname="fortiproxyCC" devid="XXX" eventtime=1742312487710926992 tz="-0300" logid="0100043776" type="event" subtype="system" level="notice" vd="root" logdesc="NAC quarantine" srcip=10.199.35.119 dstip=142.251.133.238 src_int="vlan30" dst_int="vlan80" srcport=52319 dstport=443 proto=6 service="https" action="ban-ip" user="F59225" group="InternetRedesCompartirArchivos" policyid=78 banned_src="dlp" banned_rule="ControlEjecutables" profile="ControlEjecutables" duration=0 msg="An automatic ban was created"
 
The admin can collect the output of the following commands to get additional information:
 
diagnose sys scanunit stats
diagnose wad stats worker
diagnose wad worker filter list
 
In the configuration, no action in the rules is set to 'Quarantine'.
 
config dlp profile
  edit "ControlEjecutables"
        config rule
            edit 2
                set name "ExcepcionesEjecutables"
                set severity high
                set proto http-get http-post ftp
                set file-type 6
                set action log-only
            next
            edit 3
                set name "BloqueoEjecutables"
                set severity high
                set proto http-get http-post ftp
                set file-type 3
                set action block
            next
        end
        set nac-quar-log enable
    next
end
 
The issue could be related to known bug 1111368, which has been resolved in version 7.4.9.
 
If the issue is encountered in version 7.4.9, open a TAC ticket for further analysis.
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