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reneaksess
New Member
June 18, 2018
Question

SSL-VPN triggering a IPS upd_flood (i think)

  • June 18, 2018
  • 4 replies
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Hi y'll

 

I've got this challenge with a lot of alert emails from my fortigate. It looks like it's triggered trough the DoS IpV4 policy on WAN1. If I read and analize the message i see it's from a customer that uses SSL-VPN connection to our center. It's not just one customer but several that can trigger. I raised the treshold for this DoS IpV4 from 2000 to 3500 and it reduced the amount of mails :) . I can of course raise it even higher or just turn it off but that's not a good solution because I want to understand what happens. I see that it seems to be in connection with the logon (but not 100% sure).

 

i post the Alert and hope somebody can give me a hint or a solution

Message meets Alert condition

The following intrusion was observed: "udp_flood".

date=2018-06-18 time=12:00:56 devname=FGT92D-prim-SMS devid=FGT92D3G1400xxxx logid="0720018432" type="anomaly" subtype="anomaly" level="alert" vd="root" eventtime=1529316056 severity="critical" srcip=79.160.97.xxx srccountry="Norway" dstip=193.71.1xx.xxx srcintf="wan1" srcintfrole="undefined" sessionid=0 action="clear_session" proto=17 service="udp/10443" count=137 attack="udp_flood" srcport=53797 dstport=10443 attackid=285212772 policyid=1 policytype="DoS-policy" ref="http://www.fortinet.com/ids/VID285212772" msg="anomaly: udp_flood, 3501 > threshold 3500, repeats 137 times" crscore=50 crlevel="critical"

 

 

Kind regards 

4 replies

St_Becker
New Member
November 15, 2019

Same behavior on our system.

edwinbaloyi
New Member
June 9, 2020

I am having the same problem

I had to turn it off for the UDP-Flood cause it was causing a problem for SSL-VPN users

 

but then we had a a real udp attack which affected the CPU for several hours, I now need to explain this to the client

 

jay317
New Member
April 9, 2021

I'm experiencing the same thing.  Have you found a solution to this?  Out of curiosity do you have DTLS enabled in the forticlient?

guinfox
New Member
July 6, 2022

any solution?

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