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DerekWSmall
New Contributor III

Fortigate running 6.2.4 keeps switching to SSL decryption

I have a Fortigate 60E, running 6.2.4 (build 1112).  It works great most of the time. However occasionally it will start doing SSL decryption, and anyone hitting any SSL site through it will start getting traffic encrypted with the Fortigate's cert, not the public site's cert.  I can't figure out why the Fortigate just starts doing this apparently out-of-the-blue.  A reboot fixes the problem, but I can't explain it.  Anyone have any ideas where to start? Are there any known exploits that could be causing this to occur?  I believe I have the outside interface pretty well locked down, but of course it could something on the inside triggering it.

Derek Small
Derek Small
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Markus
Valued Contributor

Same here with 61F and 6.2.4 Nothing found so far, only reboot helps.


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DerekWSmall
New Contributor III

Happened again. Can anyone from Fortinet offer any advice?  Hello. Bueller, Bueller, Bueller....

 

Derek Small
Derek Small
poundy

ok, while there are Fortinet staff here, I wouldn't ever treat this as an official support channel. Raise a support case if it is that big a concern

emnoc
Esteemed Contributor III

Do you have any policy with ssl inspection enable is the 1st question? I 'm running 6.2.4 on dozen devices form a 51 up to a 900 and we do not see that issue.

 

Ken Felix

 

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Markus
Valued Contributor

Hi Ken Yes, I have policies with SSL Inspection enabled (flow and deep). Best regards, Markus


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emnoc
Esteemed Contributor III

You need to investigate those policies and traffic flow. The fortigate does not have a brain of it own but does what you configure it to do.

 

So the traffic your getting ssl-decrytion is matching that policy. It could be anything but  you have to look. Can you recreate the issue? Is it the same src/dst, protocol, web,etc........?

 

 

Ken Felix

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Markus
Valued Contributor

Thank you for the reply. I wasn't able to reproduce. As I can see, there are a lot of DNS sessions open when it hits. The strange thing is, that also traffic FROM internet, hitting policies with full inspection (e.g. owa) stop responding. The session count increase to 3-4x than "normal" and then this behaviour occurs. No attack or something, dns sessions are from my internal server to my provider dns servers.


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Markus
Valued Contributor

coming back - 6.2.5 solved this problem for me


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