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Introduction to Cisco Identity Services Engine

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a security policy management platform that provides secure access to network resources. Cisco ISE allows enterprises to gather real-time contextual information from networks, users, and devices. An administrator can then use this information to make proactive governance decisions by creating access control policies for the various network elements, including access switches, wireless controllers, Virtual Private Network (VPN) gateways, Private 5G networks, and data center switches. Cisco ISE acts as the policy manager in the Cisco TrustSec solution and supports TrustSec software-defined segmentation.

Cisco ISE is available on secure network server appliances with different performance characterizations, and also as software that can be run on a virtual machines (VMs). Note that you can add more appliances to a deployment for better performance.

Cisco ISE has a scalable architecture that supports standalone and distributed deployments, but with centralized configuration and management. It also enables the configuration and management of distinct personas and services, thereby giving you the ability to create and apply services, where needed, in a network, but operate the Cisco ISE deployment as a complete and coordinated system.

For detailed Cisco ISE ordering and licensing information, see the Cisco Identity Services Engine Ordering Guide.

For information on monitoring and troubleshooting the system, see the "Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco ISE" section in the Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide.

System Requirements

For an uninterrupted Cisco ISE configuration, ensure that the following system requirements are fulfilled.

For more details on hardware platforms and installation in this Cisco ISE release, see the Cisco Identity Services Engine Hardware Installation Guide.


Note


Cisco ISE cannot be installed on OpenStack.


Supported Hardware

Cisco ISE, Release 2.7, can be installed on the following platforms:

Table 1. Supported Platforms

Hardware Platform

Configuration

Cisco SNS-3515-K9 (small)

For appliance hardware specifications, see the Cisco Secure Network Server Appliance Hardware Installation Guide.

Cisco SNS-3595-K9 (large)

Cisco SNS-3615-K9 (small)

Cisco SNS-3655-K9 (medium)

Cisco SNS-3695-K9 (large)

After installation, you can configure Cisco ISE with specific component personas such as Administration, Monitoring, or pxGrid on the platforms that are listed in the above table. In addition to these personas, Cisco ISE contains other types of personas within Policy Service, such as Profiling Service, Session Services, Threat-Centric NAC Service, SXP Service for TrustSec, TACACS+ Device Admin Service, and Passive Identity Service.


Caution


  • *Cisco ISE 3.1 Patch 6 and above versions support Cisco SNS 3700 series appliances.

  • Cisco ISE 3.1 and later releases do not support Cisco Secured Network Server (SNS) 3515 appliance.

  • Cisco SNS 3400 Series appliances are not supported in Cisco ISE, Release 2.4, and later.

  • Memory allocation of less than 16 GB is not supported for VM appliance configurations. In the event of a Cisco ISE behavior issue, all the users will be required to change the allocated memory to at least 16 GB before opening a case with the Cisco Technical Assistance Center.

  • Legacy Access Control Server (ACS) and Network Access Control (NAC) appliances (including the Cisco ISE 3300 Series) are not supported in Cisco ISE, Release 2.0, and later.


Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Mode Support

Cisco ISE uses embedded Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2-validated cryptographic module, Cisco FIPS Object Module Version 6.2 (Certificate #2984). For details about the FIPS compliance claims, see Global Government Certifications.

When FIPS mode is enabled on Cisco ISE, consider the following:

  • All non-FIPS-compliant cipher suites will be disabled.

  • Certificates and private keys must use only FIPS-compliant hash and encryption algorithms.

  • RSA private keys must be 2048 bits or greater.

  • Elliptical Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) private keys must be 224 bits or greater.

  • Diffie–Hellman Ephemeral (DHE) ciphers work with Diffie–Hellman (DH) parameters of 2048 bits or greater.

  • SHA1 is not allowed to generate ISE local server certificates.

  • The anonymous PAC provisioning option in EAP-FAST is disabled.

  • The local SSH server operates in FIPS mode.

  • The following protocols are not supported in FIPS mode for RADIUS:

    • EAP-MD5

    • PAP

    • CHAP

    • MS-CHAPv1

    • MS-CHAPv2

    • LEAP

Supported Virtual Environments

Cisco ISE supports the following virtual environment platforms:

  • VMware ESXi 5.x, 6.x, 7.x

  • Microsoft Hyper-V on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and later

  • KVM on QEMU 1.5.3-160

For information about the virtual machine requirements, see the Cisco Identity Services Engine Installation Guide for your version of Cisco ISE.


Caution


Cisco ISE does not support VMware snapshots for backing up ISE data because a VMware snapshot saves the status of a VM at a given point in time. In a multi-node Cisco ISE deployment, data in all the nodes are continuously synchronized with current database information. Restoring a snapshot might cause database replication and synchronization issues. We recommend that you use the backup functionality included in Cisco ISE for archival and restoration of data.

Using VMware snapshots to back up ISE data results in stopping Cisco ISE services. A reboot is required to bring up the ISE node.


Supported Browsers

The supported browsers for the Admin portal include:

  • Mozilla Firefox 96 and earlier versions from version 82

  • Mozilla Firefox ESR 91.3 and earlier versions

  • Google Chrome 97 and earlier versions from version 86

  • Microsoft Edge, the latest version and one version earlier than the latest version

Support for Microsoft Active Directory

Cisco ISE works with Microsoft Active Directory servers 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019 at all functional levels.


Note


  • It is recommended that you upgrade Windows server to a supported version as Microsoft no longer supports Window server 2003 and 2003 R2. .

  • Microsoft Active Directory Version 2000 or its functional level is not supported by Cisco ISE.


Cisco ISE supports multidomain forest integration with Active Directory infrastructure to support authentication and attribute collection across large enterprise networks. Cisco ISE supports up to 50 domain join points.

Improved User Identification

Cisco ISE can identify Active Directory users when a username is not unique. Duplicate usernames are common when using short usernames in a multidomain Active Directory environment. You can identify users by Software Asset Management (SAM), Customer Name (CN), or both. Cisco ISE uses the attributes that you provide to uniquely identify a user.

Update the value of the following:

  • SAM: Update this value to use only the SAM in the query (the default).

  • CN: Update this value to use only CN in the query.

  • CNSAM: Update this value to use CN and SAM in the query.

To configure the attributes mentioned above for identifying Active Directory users, update the IdentityLookupField parameter in the registry on the server that is running Active Directory:

REGISTRY.Services\lsass\Parameters\Providers\ActiveDirectory\IdentityLookupField

Supported Ciphers

In a clean or fresh install of Cisco ISE, SHA1 ciphers are disabled by default. However, if you upgrade from an existing version of Cisco ISE, the SHA1 ciphers retain the options from the earlier version. You can view and change the SHA1 ciphers settings using the Allow SHA1 Ciphers field (Administration > System > Settings > Security Settings).


Note


This does not apply to the Admin portal. When running in Federal Information Processing Standard Mode (FIPS), an upgrade does not remove SHA1 ciphers from the Admin portal.


Cisco ISE supports TLS versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2.

Cisco ISE supports RSA and ECDSA server certificates. The following elliptic curves are supported:

  • secp256r1

  • secp384r1

  • secp521r1


Note


Cisco ISE does not support intermediate certificates having SHA256withECDSA signature algorithm for any of the elliptical curves due to the limitations in the current implementation of OpenJDK 1.8.


The following table lists the supported Cipher Suites:

Cipher Suite

When Cisco ISE is configured as an EAP server

When Cisco ISE is configured as a RADIUS DTLS server

When Cisco ISE downloads CRL from HTTPS or a secure LDAP server

When Cisco ISE is configured as a secure syslog client or a secure LDAP client

When Cisco ISE is configured as a RADIUS DTLS client for CoA

TLS 1.0 support

When TLS 1.0 is allowed

(DTLS server supports only DTLS 1.2)

Allow TLS 1.0 option is disabled by default in Cisco ISE 2.3 and above. TLS 1.0 is not supported for TLS based EAP authentication methods (EAP-TLS, EAP-FAST/TLS) and 802.1X supplicants when this option is disabled. If you want to use the TLS based EAP authentication methods in TLS 1.0, check the Allow TLS 1.0 check box in the Security Settings window. To view this window, choose Administration > System > Settings > Protocols > Security Settings.

When TLS 1.0 is allowed

(DTLS client supports only DTLS 1.2)

TLS 1.1 support

When TLS 1.1 is allowed

Allow TLS 1.1 option is disabled by default in Cisco ISE 2.3 and above. TLS 1.1 is not supported for TLS based EAP authentication methods (EAP-TLS, EAP-FAST/TLS) and 802.1X supplicants when this option is disabled. If you want to use the TLS based EAP authentication methods in TLS 1.1, check the Allow TLS 1.1 check box in the Security Settings window(Administration > System > Settings > Protocols > Security Settings).

When TLS 1.1 is allowed

ECC DSA ciphers

ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384

Yes

Yes

ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256

Yes

Yes

ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384

Yes

Yes

ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256

Yes

Yes

ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA

When SHA-1 is allowed

When SHA-1 is allowed

ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA

When SHA-1 is allowed

When SHA-1 is allowed

ECC RSA ciphers

ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384

When ECDHE-RSA is allowed

When ECDHE-RSA is allowed

ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256

When ECDHE-RSA is allowed

When ECDHE-RSA is allowed

ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384

When ECDHE-RSA is allowed

When ECDHE-RSA is allowed

ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256

When ECDHE-RSA is allowed

When ECDHE-RSA is allowed

ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA

When ECDHE-RSA/SHA-1 is allowed

When ECDHE-RSA/SHA-1 is allowed

ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA

When ECDHE-RSA/SHA-1 is allowed

When ECDHE-RSA/SHA-1 is allowed

DHE RSA ciphers

DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256

No

Yes

DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256

No

Yes

DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA

No

When SHA-1 is allowed

DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA

No

When SHA-1 is allowed

RSA ciphers

AES256-SHA256

Yes

Yes

AES128-SHA256

Yes

Yes

AES256-SHA

When SHA-1 is allowed

When SHA-1 is allowed

AES128-SHA

When SHA-1 is allowed

When SHA-1 is allowed

3DES ciphers

DES-CBC3-SHA

When 3DES/SHA-1 is allowed

When 3DES/DSS and SHA-1 are enabled

DSS ciphers

DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA

No

When 3DES/DSS and SHA-1 are enabled

DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA

No

When 3DES/DSS and SHA-1 are enabled

EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA

No

When 3DES/DSS and SHA-1 are enabled

Weak RC4 ciphers

RC4-SHA

When "Allow weak ciphers" option is enabled in the Allowed Protocols page and when SHA-1 is allowed

No

RC4-MD5

When "Allow weak ciphers" option is enabled in the Allowed Protocols page

No

EAP-FAST anonymous provisioning only:

ADH-AES-128-SHA

Yes

No

Peer certificate restrictions

Validate KeyUsage

Client certificate should have KeyUsage=Key Agreement and ExtendedKeyUsage=Client Authentication for the following ciphers:

  • ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
  • ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
  • ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256
  • ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384

Validate ExtendedKeyUsage

Client certificate should have KeyUsage=Key Encipherment and ExtendedKeyUsage=Client Authentication for the following ciphers:

  • AES256-SHA256
  • AES128-SHA256
  • AES256-SHA
  • AES128-SHA
  • DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
  • DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
  • DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
  • DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256
  • ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
  • ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
  • ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384
  • ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
  • ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
  • ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA
  • EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA
  • DES-CBC3-SHA
  • RC4-SHA
  • RC4-MD5

Server certificate should have ExtendedKeyUsage=Server Authentication

What is New in Cisco ISE, Release 2.7?

Auto-Logon of Self-Registered Guest after Sponsor Approval

You can now enable automatic logon for a self-registered guest after sponsor approval.

Business Outcome: The guest user is automatically logged in when the sponsor approves the guest access request. This simplifies the process and improves customer experience.

Cisco Support Diagnostics Connector

The Cisco Support Diagnostics Connector helps Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and Cisco support engineers to obtain deployment information from the primary administration node.

Business Outcome: TAC can now get support information of any particular node in a deployment through the connector. This data enables quicker and better troubleshooting.

CLI Show Logging Enhancement

When you run the show logging command in the Command Line Interface (CLI), the content is displayed in the Unix less environment. You can see the supported less commands by typing “H”.

Business Outcome: Less is more useful for viewing the content of large files. This saves time when examining log files.

EAP TEAP Support

Cisco ISE 2.7 supports the Tunnel Extensible Authentication Protocol (TEAP). The type-length-value (TLV) objects are used within the tunnel to transport authentication-related data between the EAP peer and the EAP server. You can use EAP-MS-CHAPv2 or EAP-TLS as the inner method. EAP chaining is supported for TEAP. EAP chaining allows Cisco ISE to run both the inner methods for user and machine authentication inside the same TEAP tunnel. This enables Cisco ISE to correlate the authentication results and apply the appropriate authorization policy, using the EAPChainingResult attribute.

Business Outcome: TEAP is a tunnel-based EAP method that enables secure communication between a peer and a server by using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to establish a tunnel and encrypt further communications.

Endpoint Ownership Enhancement

The Endpoint Ownership information is now stored across all the Policy Service nodes (PSNs) with the help of the Light Session Directory (LSD).

Business Outcome: This avoids endpoint ownership flapping.

Feed Service Update

If you have customized your profiler conditions and do not want the profiler feed to replace those conditions, you can manually download OUI updates without downloading the policy updates.

Business Outcome: Improved profiler accuracy with less overhead.

Grace Access

You can grant 5 to 30 minutes of internet access to self-registered guests who are waiting for sponsor approval to your corporate network.

Business Outcome: The guest users can access the internet while waiting for approval.

Guest Password Recovery

You can now enable the Reset Password option in the Guest portal for self-registered guests. Self-registered guests with valid guest account can use this option when they forget their password. When you click this option, the self-registration page is launched. You can enter your phone number or email address (whichever you are registered with) and enter a new password.

Business Outcome: Improves the customer experience and reduces calls to Customer Support team.

Interactive Help

The Interactive Help provides tips and step-by-step guidance to complete tasks with ease.

Business Outcome: This helps the end users to easily understand the work flow and complete their tasks with ease.

Phone Number as the Guest User Identifier

In addition to email address or username, guest users can now use their phone numbers as their user ID for guest access.

Business Outcome: Guest users can now use their mobile numbers as their user ID. This makes it easier for them to remember their user ID.

Profiler Forwarder Persistence Queue

The Profiler Forwarder Persistence Queue stores incoming events before they are sent to the profiler module for further processing.

Business Outcome: This reduces the loss of events due to a sudden burst of events. This queue uses the ISE Messaging Service, and is enabled by default. It requires port 8671 to be open between all Cisco ISE nodes.

Role Based Access Policy

In the Cisco ISE admin portal, the Policy menu option under Administration > Admin Access > Authorization has been renamed to RBAC Policy. The RBAC Policy window is used to add and configure policies for administrator groups.

Secure SMTP

Guest email notifications can now be sent through a secure SMTP server.

Business Outcome: Improved security for Guest emails in your network.

Secure Unlock Client

The Secure Unlock Client mechanism is used to provide root shell access on Cisco ISE CLI for a certain period of time.

Business Outcome: The Secure Unlock client feature has been implemented using the Consent Token tool, which securely grants privileged access for Cisco products in a trusted manner.

TrustSec Enhancements

The HTTPS REST API replaces the existing RADUIS protocol to provide all the required TrustSec information to the network devices.

Business Outcome: It enhances the efficiency and ability to download large configurations in a short period of time as compared to the existing RADIUS protocol.

Known Limitations and Workarounds

LDAP Server Reconfiguration after Upgrade

Limitation

The primary Hostname or IP is not updated which causes authentication failures. This is because while upgarding the Cisco ISE deployment, the deployment IDs tend to reset.

Condition

When you enable the Specify server for each ISE node option in the Connection window ( Administration > Identity Management > External Identity Sources > LDAP > Add or choose an existing server) and then upgrade your Cisco ISE deployment with PSNs, the deployment IDs tend to reset.

Workaround

Reconfigure the LDAP Server settings for each node. For more information, see LDAP Identity Source Settings section in the Administrative Access to Cisco ISE Using an External Identity Store chapter in the "Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide, Release 2.4".

pxGrid Certificate Issue

If you are using the "Netscape Cert Type" for the pxGrid certificate, Cisco ISE may reject that certificate after applying patch 2. Older versions of that certificate specified SSL Server, which now fails, since a client certificate is required. Either use a different certificate, or add "SSL Client" to the existing certificate.

Radius Logs for Authentication

Details of an authentication event can be viewed in the Details field of the Radius Authentications window. The details of an authentication event are available only for 7 days, after which no data on the authentication event will be visible. All the authentication log data will be removed when a purge is triggered.

Radius EAP Authentication Performance when Using Default Self-Signed Certificate

In Cisco ISE 2.7, the default self-signed certificate key size is increased to 4096 for enhanced security. Radius EAP authentication performance might be affected, if the default self-signed certificate is used for EAP authentication.

Few TLS Ciphers Cannot be Disabled

The following ciphers cannot be disabled in Cisco ISE:

  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256

  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256

  • TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

  • TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256

  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256

  • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384

  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA

  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

  • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

The Cisco ISE scenarios that could use these ciphers include:

  • Cisco ISE as an EAP or ERS server

  • Cisco ISE downloads Certificate Revocation List from an HTTPS or a secure LDAP server

  • Cisco ISE as a secure TCP syslog or LDAP client

The Cisco ISE components that could use these ciphers include: Admin UI, all portals, MDM client, pxGrid, and PassiveID Agent.

Security Group Access Control List

When you try to create a Security Group ACL (SGACL), sometimes the following error message is displayed:

Failed to create policy, CFS provision failed.

This is because creating and updating egress matrix cell flows are not supported for multiple matrixes in Cisco ISE. The following External RESTful Services (ERS) requests are also not supported in the Multiple Matrix mode:

/config/egressmatrixcell/*

/config/sgt/*

/config/sgacl/*

You should, therefore, uncheck the Allow Multiple SGACL check box in the TrustSec Matrix Settings (Work > TrustSec > Settings > TrustSec Matrix Settings) window. This enables you to create an SGACL, and no error message is displayed.

Valid User-Agent Header

From Cisco ISE Release 2.7, Cisco ISE requires a valid User-Agent header sent along in a web request to a Cisco ISE end-user facing portal, such as a Cisco ISE sponsor portal, to receive successful or redirects responses.

Response Status Lines

From Cisco ISE Release 2.7, Cisco ISE web services and portals return response status lines containing only the HTTP versions and the status codes, but not the corresponding reason phrases.

Server IP update under Trustsec AAA Server list

When the IP of the Cisco ISE instance is changed via CLI, then Cisco ISE will restart the services. Once the services are up, we need to change the IP of Trustsec AAA Server. Choose Workcenters > TrustSec > Components > Trustsec Servers > Trustsec AAA Servers.

Upgrade Information

Upgrading to Release 2.7

You can directly upgrade to Release 2.7 from the following Cisco ISE releases:

  • 2.2

  • 2.3

  • 2.4

  • 2.6

If you are on a version earlier than Cisco ISE, Release 2.2, you must first upgrade to one of the releases listed above and then upgrade to Release 2.7.


Note


We recommend that you upgrade to the latest patch in the existing version before starting the upgrade.


Cisco ISE, Release 2.7, has parity with the Cisco ISE patch release: 2.2 Patch 15, 2.3 Patch 7, 2.4 Patch 10, 2.6 Patch 2.

License Changes

Device Administration Licenses

There are two types of device administration licenses: cluster and node. A cluster license allows you to use device administration on all policy service nodes in a Cisco ISE cluster. A node license allows you to use device administration on a single policy service node. In a high-availability standalone deployment, a node license permits you to use device administration on a single node in the high availability pair.

The device administration license key is registered against the primary and secondary policy administration nodes. All policy service nodes in the cluster consume device administration licenses, as required, until the license count is reached.

Cluster licenses were introduced with the release of device administration in Cisco ISE 2.0, and is enforced in Cisco ISE 2.0 and later releases. Node licenses were released later, and are only partially enforced in releases 2.0 to 2.3. Starting with Cisco ISE 2.4, node licenses are completely enforced on a per-node basis.

Cluster licenses have been discontinued, and now only node Licenses are available for sale.

However, if you are upgrading to this release with a valid cluster license, you can continue to use your existing license upon upgrade.

The evaluation license allows device administration on one policy service node.

Licenses for Virtual Machine nodes

Cisco ISE is also sold as a virtual machine (VM). For this Release, we recommend that you install appropriate VM licenses for the VM nodes in your deployment. Install the VM licenses based on the number of VM nodes and each VM node's resources, such as CPU and memory. Otherwise, you will receive warnings and notifications to procure and install the VM license keys. However, the installation process will not be interrupted. From Cisco ISE, Release 2.4, you can manage your VM licenses from the GUI.

VM licenses are offered under three categories—Small, Medium, and Large. For instance, if you are using a 3595-equivalent VM node with eight cores and 64-GB RAM, you might need a Medium category VM license if you want to replicate the same capabilities on the VM. You can install multiple VM licenses based on the number of VMs and their resources as per your deployment requirements.

VM licenses are infrastructure licenses. Therefore, you can install VM licenses irrespective of the endpoint licenses available in your deployment. You can install a VM license even if you have not installed any Evaluation, Base, Plus, or Apex license in your deployment. However, in order to use the features that are enabled by the Base, Plus, or Apex licenses, you must install the appropriate licenses.

VM licenses are perpetual licenses. VM licensing changes are displayed every time you log in to the Cisco ISE GUI, until you check the Do not show this message again check box in the notification pop-up window.

If you have not purchased an ISE VM license earlier, see the Cisco Identity Services Engine Ordering Guide to choose the appropriate VM license to be purchased.


Note


If you have purchased ISE VM licenses without a PAK, you can request VM PAKs by emailing licensing@cisco.com. Include the Sales Order numbers that reflect the ISE VM purchase, and your Cisco ID in your email. You will be provided a medium VM license key for each ISE VM purchase you have made.

For details about VM compatibility with your Cisco ISE version, see "Hardware and Virtual Appliance Requirements" chapter in the Cisco Identity Services Engine Installation Guide for the applicable release.

For more information about the licenses, see the "Cisco ISE Licenses" chapter in the Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide.

Upgrade Procedure Prerequisites

  • Run the Upgrade Readiness Tool (URT) before the upgrade to check whether the configured data can be upgraded to the required Cisco ISE version. Most upgrade failures occur because of data upgrade issues. The URT validates the data before the actual upgrade and reports the issues, if any. The URT can be downloaded from the Cisco ISE Download Software Center.

  • We recommend that you install all the relevant patches before beginning the upgrade.

For more information, see the Cisco Identity Services Engine Upgrade Guide.

Telemetry

After installation, when you log in to the Admin portal for the first time, the Cisco ISE Telemetry banner is displayed. Using this feature, Cisco ISE securely collects nonsensitive information about your deployment, network access devices, profiler, and other services that you are using. This data will be used to provide better services and more features in the forthcoming releases. By default, telemetry is enabled. To disable or modify the account information, choose Administration > Settings > Network Settings Diagnostics > Telemetry. The account is unique for each deployment. Each admin user need not provide it separately.

Telemetry provides valuable information about the status and capabilities of Cisco ISE. Telemetry is used by Cisco to improve appliance lifecycle management for IT teams who have deployed Cisco ISE. Collecting this data helps the product teams serve customers better. This data and related insights enable Cisco to proactively identify potential issues, improve services and support, facilitate discussions to gather additional value from new and existing features, and assist IT teams with inventory report of license entitlement and upcoming renewals.

It may take up to 24 hours after the Telemetry feature is disabled for Cisco ISE to stop sharing telemetry data. Starting with patch 1, telemetry is disabled immediately.

Types of data collected include Product Usage Telemetry and Cisco Support Diagnostics.

Cisco Support Diagnostics

The Cisco Support Diagnostics Connector is a new feature that helps Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and Cisco support engineers to obtain support information on the deployment through the primary administration node. By default, this feature is disabled. See the Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide for instructions on how to enable this feature.

Cisco ISE Live Update Portals

Cisco ISE Live Update portals help you to automatically download the Supplicant Provisioning wizard, AV/AS support (Compliance Module), and agent installer packages that support client provisioning and posture policy services. These live update portals are configured in Cisco ISE during the initial deployment to retrieve the latest client provisioning and posture software directly from Cisco.com to the corresponding device using Cisco ISE.

If the default Update portal URL is not reachable and your network requires a proxy server, configure the proxy settings. Choose Administration > System > Settings > Proxy before you access the Live Update portals. If proxy settings allow access to the profiler, posture, and client-provisioning feeds, access to a Mobile Device Management (MDM) server is blocked because Cisco ISE cannot bypass the proxy services for MDM communication. To resolve this, you can configure the proxy services to allow communication to the MDM servers. For more information on proxy settings, see the "Specify Proxy Settings in Cisco ISE" section in the Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide.

Client Provisioning and Posture Live Update Portals

You can download Client Provisioning resources from:

Work Centers > Posture > Settings > Software Updates > Client Provisioning.

The following software elements are available at this URL:

  • Supplicant Provisioning wizards for Windows and Mac OS X native supplicants

  • Windows versions of the latest Cisco ISE persistent and temporal agents

  • Mac OS X versions of the latest Cisco ISE persistent agents

  • ActiveX and Java Applet installer helpers

  • AV/AS compliance module files

For more information on automatically downloading the software packages that are available at the Client Provisioning Update portal to Cisco ISE, see the "Download Client Provisioning Resources Automatically" section in the "Configure Client Provisioning" chapter in the Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide.

You can download Posture updates from:

Work Centers > Posture > Settings > Software Updates > Posture Updates

The following software elements are available at this URL:

  • Cisco-predefined checks and rules

  • Windows and Mac OS X AV/AS support charts

  • Cisco ISE operating system support

For more information on automatically downloading the software packages that become available at this portal to Cisco ISE, see the "Download Posture Updates Automatically" section in the Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide.

If you do not want to enable the automatic download capabilities, you can choose to download updates offline.

Cisco ISE Offline Updates

This offline update option allows you to download client provisioning and posture updates, when direct internet access to Cisco.com from a device using Cisco ISE is not available or is not permitted by a security policy.

To download offline client provisioning resources:

Procedure


Step 1

Go to: https://software.cisco.com/download/home/283801620/type/283802505/release/2.7.0.

Step 2

Provide your login credentials.

Step 3

Navigate to the Cisco Identity Services Engine download window, and select the release.

The following Offline Installation Packages are available for download:

  • win_spw-<version>-isebundle.zip—Offline SPW Installation Package for Windows

  • mac-spw-<version>.zip—Offline SPW Installation Package for Mac OS X

  • compliancemodule-<version>-isebundle.zip—Offline Compliance Module Installation Package

  • macagent-<version>-isebundle.zip—Offline Mac Agent Installation Package

  • webagent-<version>-isebundle.zip—Offline Web Agent Installation Package

Step 4

Click either Download or Add to Cart.


For more information on adding the downloaded installation packages to Cisco ISE, see the "Add Client Provisioning Resources from a Local Machine" section in the Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide.

You can update the checks, operating system information, and antivirus and antispyware support charts for Windows and Mac operating systems offline from an archive in your local system, using posture updates.

For offline updates, ensure that the versions of the archive files match the versions in the configuration file. Use offline posture updates after you configure Cisco ISE and want to enable dynamic updates for the posture policy service.

To download offline posture updates:

Procedure


Step 1

Go to https://www.cisco.com/web/secure/spa/posture-offline.html.

Step 2

Save the posture-offline.zip file to your local system. This file is used to update the operating system information, checks, rules, and antivirus and antispyware support charts for Windows and Mac operating systems.

Step 3

Launch the Cisco ISE administrator user interface and choose Administration > System > Settings > Posture.

Step 4

Click the arrow to view the settings for posture.

Step 5

Click Updates.

The Posture Updates window is displayed.

Step 6

Click the Offline option.

Step 7

Click Browse to locate the archive file (posture-offline.zip) from the local folder in your system.

Note

 
The File to Update field is a mandatory field. You can select only one archive file (.zip) containing the appropriate files. Archive files other than .zip, such as .tar, and .gz are not supported.

Step 8

Click Update Now.


Cisco ISE Integration with Cisco Digital Network Architecture Center

Install a New Patch

To obtain the patch file that is necessary to apply a patch to Cisco ISE, log in to the Cisco Download Software site at https://software.cisco.com/download/home (you will be required to provide your Cisco.com login credentials), navigate to Security > Access Control and Policy > Cisco Identity Services Engine > Cisco Identity Services Engine Software, and save a copy of the patch file to your local machine.

For instructions on how to apply the patch to your system, see the "Install a Software Patch" section in the Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide.

For instructions on how to install a patch using CLI, see the "Patch Install" section in the Cisco Identity Services Engine CLI Reference Guide.


Note


Cisco ISE Release 2.7 Patch 4 and later releases support the Smart Software Manager (SSM) On-Prem Connection licensing method. After enabling this feature, if you need to roll back to Release 2.7 Patch 3 or earlier, you must disable this feature before uninstalling the patch.


Caveats

The Caveats section includes the bug ID and a short description of the bug. For details on the symptoms, conditions, and workaround for a specific caveat, use the Cisco Bug Search Tool (BST). The bug IDs are sorted alphanumerically.


Note


The Open Caveats sections lists the open caveats that apply to the current release and might apply to releases earlier than Cisco ISE 2.7. A caveat that is open for an earlier release and is still unresolved applies to all future releases until it is resolved.


The BST, which is the online successor to the Bug Toolkit, is designed to improve the effectiveness of network risk management and device troubleshooting. You can search for bugs based on product, release, or keyword, and aggregate key data such as bug details, product, and version. For more details on the tool, see the Help page located at http://www.cisco.com/web/applicat/cbsshelp/help.html.

Resolved Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 10

The following table lists the resolved caveats in Release 2.7 cumulative patch 10.

Identifier

Headline

CSCwd30039

Cisco Identity Services Engine Command Injection Vulnerability

CSCwe17954

Cisco Identity Services Engine Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CSCwe92624

Africa/Cairo timezone is not adjusted automatically for Daylight Saving Time

CSCvg66764

Session stitching support with ISE PIC Agent

CSCwe92177

Mexico timezone incorrectly changing to Daylight Saving

CSCwd38137

Cisco Identity Services Engine XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

CSCwd77062

Cisco Identity Services Engine Device Credential Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CSCwe63320

Cisco ISE Releases 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 display mismatched information on the "Get All Endpoints" report.

CSCwd93719

Cisco Identity Services Engine XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

Resolved Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 9

The following table lists the resolved caveats in Release 2.7 cumulative patch 9.

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCwc98833

Cross-Site scripting vulnerability

CSCwc31482

NetworkSetupAssistance.exe digital signature certificate expires in BYOD flow using Windows SPW

CSCvz65945

"Invalid Length" TACACS auth failures within Live Logs for non-TACACS traffic

CSCwc98828

Interface feature insufficient access control vulnerability

CSCwe08264

Patch install from 2.7P1 or P2 to 2.7P8 is stuck on timezone file

New Features in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 8

Support for Cisco Secure Client

Cisco ISE 2.7 Patch 8 supports both AnyConnect and Cisco Secure Client for Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. The following Cisco Secure Client versions are supported for these operating systems:

  • Windows: Cisco Secure Client version 5.00529 and later

  • macOS: Cisco Secure Client version 5.00556 and later

  • Linux: Cisco Secure Client version 5.00556 and later

You can configure both AnyConnect and Cisco Secure Client for your endpoints on these operating systems but only one policy will be considered at run time for an endpoint.

Resolved Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 8

The following table lists the resolved caveats in Release 2.7 cumulative patch 8.

Patch 8 might not work with older versions of SPW. MAC users must upgrade their SPW to MACOSXSPWizard 2.2.1.43 or later, and Windows users must upgrade their SPW to WinSPWizard 2.2.1.53 or later.

Before installing Patch 8 on Cisco ISE 2.7 Patch 7, uninstall the hotpatch to fix CSCwa47133 from Patch 7.

Identifier

Headline

CSCwc74531

ise hourly cron should cleanup the cached buffers instead of the 95% memory usage

CSCwa80359

CIAM: sqlite 3.7.17

CSCwa80547

CIAM: unixodbc 2.3.0

CSCwb07442

SystemTest : Pxgrid connectivity is not coming up post PAN Failover

CSCwa80679

CIAM: net-snmp 5.7.2

CSCwd35608

ISE is sending old Audit Session ID in reath CoA after previously successful port-bounce CoA

CSCwa96229

ISE allowing user to change admin password without validating current password

CSCvv54351

Device Administration using Radius does not consume base license

CSCwb29140

Threads getting exhaust post moving to latest patches were nss rpm is updated(Only 3.0p5&2.7p7,3.1P1

CSCwa84447

Restoring ISE 2.2 Backup in ISE 2.7 Patch 3 will cause the Health Check start button to disappear.

CSCwa35293

ISE 2.7:Authentication success settings shows success/success url

CSCwb33727

ISE 3.1 : Special character in attributes not supported

CSCwb24002

ISE ERS SDK the authenticationSettings are not disabled via API call

CSCwb55232

Create a nested endpoint group using ERS API

CSCvv87286

Fail to import Internal CA and key from ISE 2.7P2 to 3.0

CSCwc93253

ISE - Network device captcha only prompting when filter matches only 1 Network device

CSCwa55996

new objects doesnt exist in condition studio

CSCwb14106

CIAM: cyrus-sasl 2.1.27

CSCwb19256

Pingnode call causing App server to crash (OOM exception) during CRL validation

CSCvx58736

3.1:Maxscale: Core generated by /opt/CSCOcpm/prrt/diag/bin/diagRunner start

CSCwc12303

PGA memory used by the instance exceeds PGA_AGGREGATE_LIMIT on MNT node

CSCwa97123

NTP Sync Failure Alarms with more than 2 NTP Servers Configured.

CSCwa40040

Session Directory Write failed, SQLException: String Data right truncation on ISE3.0P4

CSCvs96530

Cisco Identity Services Engine Formula Injection Vulnerability

CSCwa80710

CIAM: jszip 2.5.0

CSCwa06912

High Latency observed for Tacacs+ requests with date time condition in authorization policies

CSCwb75954

Cisco Identity Services Engine Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

CSCwc30019

CIAM: openssl 1.0.2n

CSCwb07504

Sorting internal users based on User Identity Groups doesn't work in Identity Mangement-&gt;Identities

CSCwa80520

CIAM: libpng 1.6.20

CSCwc69492

ISE 3.1 | Metaspace exhaustion causes crashes on ISE node

CSCwb75959

Cisco Identity Services Engine Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

CSCwb61614

guest users (AD or internal) cant delete/add their own devices on specific node

CSCwc72251

pxgrid publishing changed for accounting stop

CSCvy32277

TLSv1.1 enabled on port 8084

CSCvz85074

Fix for CSCvu35802 breaks AD group retrieval with certificate attribute as identity in EAP-Chaining

CSCwb27857

ISE 3.0 P5: Unable to login into GUI of MnT nodes using RSA 2FA in distribusted deployment.

CSCwd03009

RMQForwarder thread to control based on hardware Appliance in platform.properties on 2.7 p7

CSCwb52396

ISE PRA failover

CSCwa95892

$ui_time_left$ variable showing wrong duration

CSCwa76896

Duplicated culomn "Failure Reasons" in RADIUS Authentications Report

CSCwc06638

3.0P6 : system summary not getting updated post Patch RollBack and Patch Install

CSCwa17925

After fixing failed pre-upgrade check, proceed button still not available

CSCwa25731

Last 7 days filter not working in Reports

CSCwd45843

Auth Step latency for policy evaluation due to GC activity

CSCwb26965

ISE 3.1: Getting error while creating network device groups via REST API.

CSCwc57939

ISE detects large VMs as Unsupported

CSCwb86283

ISE Deployment : All nodes thrown OUT_OF_SYNC as a result of incorrect cert expiry check

CSCwa49859

Attribute value dc-opaque causing issues with Live Logs.

CSCwa80484

CIAM: nss 3.44.0

CSCvz99311

Cisco Identity Services Engine Software Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability

CSCwb26227

CIAM: jackson-databind 2.9.8

CSCwb88360

Disable temp mnt persona on upgraded node fails in split upgrade

CSCwb85456

CIAM: openssl upgrade to 1.0.2ze and 1.1.1o

CSCwb91392

Healthcheck and fullupgrade precheck timesout when 3rd party CA cert is used for admin

CSCwa80501

CIAM: perl 5.16.3

CSCwc65711

MAC - CSC 5.0554 web dployment pkgs are failed to upload to ISE-&gt;CP-&gt; resources[100MB]

CSCwa18443

Need to handle Posture expiry when 8 octet MAC is present in endpoint on the deployment node

CSCvv10712

Sec_txnlog_master table should be truncated post 2M record count

CSCvz63643

ISE 2.7: EndpointPersister thread getting stopped

CSCvx49736

containerd.io RPM package openssl 1.0.2r CIAM CVE-2021-23841 + others

CSCwb09861

CIAM: glib 2.56.4

CSCvz43123

CIAM: jspdf 2.3.0

CSCwa90930

Need hard Q cap on RMQ

CSCvz24558

Spring Hibernate TPS upgrade (hibernate 5.5.2, Spring 5.3.8)

CSCwa75348

ODBC Behavior Failover Issues

CSCvz94133

Config backup fails due to "EDF_DB_LOG"

CSCwd31405

Latency observed during query of Session.PostureStatus

CSCwb27894

EAP-TEAP with EAP-TLS unable to match condition that has "CERTIFICATE.Issuer - Common Name"

CSCvz91479

Schema upgrade failed while modifying constraints for 3.1-&gt;3.2.0.804 upgrade

CSCwb05532

Location of "Location" and "Device Type" exchanging every time clicking Network Devices &gt; Add

CSCwc23593

LSD is causing high CPU

CSCwc93451

Profiler should ignore non-positive RADIUS syslog messages for forwarding from default RADIUS probe

CSCwb03231

application server stuck initializing after installing p5 or p6 due to missing table

CSCwb41741

ISE - Invalid character error in Admin Groups

CSCwb32466

ISE 3.1: Unable to delete endpoint identity group created via REST API when setting no description.

CSCwa59237

Deployment-RegistrationPoller causing performance issues on PAN node with 200+ internal certificates

CSCwc27765

ISE Config Backup Fails due to SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01

CSCwb09045

ISE PSN nodes crashing due to incorrect cryptoLib initialization

CSCwb67934

CIAM: openjdk - multiple versions

CSCwc62413

Cisco Identity Services Engine Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

CSCwa27766

Context Visibility broken after restore of backup ISE 3.0 P4

CSCwa77161

PLR returned upon 3.0P5 -&gt; 3.0P3

CSCwb23028

Inaccurate dictionary word evaluation for passwords

CSCwb62192

scheduled backup failure when ISE indexing engine backup failed

CSCwb29498

High Operations DB Usage Alarm percentage need to be configurable.

CSCwc15013

Add serviceability & fix "Could not get a resource since the pool is exhausted" Error on ISE 3.0

CSCwb84779

Changing Parent Identity Group name breaks authorization references

CSCwb03479

hotpatch.log needs to be included in support-bundle

CSCwb40349

ISE 3.X: Invalid Characters in External RADIUS Token shared Secret.

CSCwb01843

DST/TZ update should happen automatically

CSCwd24304

ISE 3.2 ERS POST /ers/config/networkdevicegroup fails - broken attribute othername/type/ndgtype

CSCvu41087

ISE 3.0 RADIUS Drops report in live logs shows ISE admin username in endpoint details

CSCvx94685

CIAM: rpm 4.11.3 CVE-2021-20271

CSCwa80553

CIAM: samba 4.8.3

CSCwa60903

ISE is adding extra 6 hours to nextUpdate date for CRL

CSCwa55866

Tacacs responses are not sent sometimes with single connect enabled

CSCwa80689

CIAM: c3p0 0.9.1.1

CSCwb02346

Cisco Identity Services Engine Sensitive Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CSCwb93156

TrustCertQuickView giving the same info for all trusted certificates

CSCwb40131

Getting 400 Bad Request while enabling the Internal User with external password type using Rest API.

CSCwb32492

Application server restart on all nodes after changing the Primary PAN Admin certificate

CSCvz88327

CA initializing on PAN, Root CA regeneration fails with "no message defined" error

CSCvv02086

Add ability to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on ISE PIC node

CSCwa80532

CIAM: jsoup 1.10.3

CSCvo79976

Security: Remove encoded credentials logging in RESTClientAlertHelper.java to be printed on console

Open Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 8

Caveat ID

Description

CSCwe08264

Patch install from ISE 2.7 Patch 2 to 2.7 Patch 8 is stuck at timezone file upgrade step

Resolved Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 7

The following table lists the resolved caveats in Release 2.7 cumulative patch 7.

Patch 7 might not work with older versions of SPW. MAC users must upgrade their SPW to MACOSXSPWizard 2.2.1.43 or later, and Windows users must upgrade their SPW to WinSPWizard 2.2.1.53 or later.

Identifier

Headline

CSCvv96532

DOC: unknown maximum time difference for thisUpdate of OCSP response

CSCvz37241

Queue Link Error:WARN:{socket_closed_unexpectedly;'connection.start'}

CSCvz91603

Unable to fetch the attributes from ODBC after upgrading ISE to 3.0 patch 3

CSCwa17718

Session service unavailable for PxGrid Session Directory with dedicated MNT

CSCwa07580

Could not create Identity User if username includes $

CSCvz18044

VN's are not replicating from Author to Reader

CSCwa23393

ISE 2.7 p 4,5,6 reports error "There is an overlapping IP Address in your device"

CSCvz87476

Unsupported message code 91104 and 91105 Alarms

CSCvz90468

Internal users using External Password Store are getting disabled if we create users using API flow.

CSCvz21417

Upgrade ISE 3.0 and earlier patches with CiscoSSL 1.0.2za

CSCvz84905

DOC: ISE Backup can cause 'High Load average' Alarm

CSCvz56358

ISE 3.0 checks only the first SAN entry

CSCvz46560

ISE using jquery v1.10.2 is vulnerable.

CSCwa20309

Unknown NAD and Misconfigured Network Device Detected Alarms

CSCvy84989

enabling cookies for POST /ers/config/internaluser/ causes Identity Group(s) does not exist error

CSCwa08484

Missing IPv4 mappings if sessions have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

CSCvz99405

OpenSSL is not upgraded on 2.7p4 or 2.7p5

CSCvy96761

session cache needs to be update dduring EAP chaining flow to handle relavent identities

CSCvz57551

Polling Interval and Time Interval For Compliance Device ReAuth Query

CSCvz86020

live log/session not showing latest data due to "too many files open" error

CSCvs95495

Reauth issue - Aruba - 3rd party device

CSCvz63405

ISE client pxgrid certificate is not delivered to DNAC

CSCvz00706

"interesting groups" are returned as a SINGLE STRING with an embedded new line

CSCwa20354

Operational Data purging-&gt;Database utilization Node info does not show intermittently.

CSCwa05404

Stale Sessions observed for Tacacs Could not find selected service error

CSCwa47566

ISE Conditions Studio - Identity Groups Drop-down limited to 1000

CSCvz80829

Version pre-check fails for 3.2 full upgrade.

CSCwa41166

RegEx expressions in TACACS Command Sets malformed

CSCwa78479

Cisco Identity Services Engine Assessment of CVE-2021-4034 Polkit

CSCvz95326

unable to add more than one ACI IP address/hostname when trying to enable ACI integration in ISE

CSCwa19573

Catalina.out file is huge because of SSL audit events

CSCwa13877

ISE Smart Licensing Authorization Renewal Failure: Details=Invalid response from licensing cloud

CSCwa23207

Multiple runtime crashes seen due to memory allocation inconsistency

CSCvz71284

SNMPv3 COA request is not issued by ISE 2.7

CSCvz93230

Guest portal does not load if hosted on a different interface from Gig0

CSCwa32312

RCM and MDM flows getting failed because of session cache not populated

CSCvz88188

TACACS authorization policy querying for username fails because username from session cache is null

CSCwa56771

ISE 3.0p2- Monitor All setting displays incorrectly with multiple matrices and different views

CSCvz67479

Local Log Settings tooltip on all fields shows irrelevant and unuseful 'Trust Certificates'

CSCwa26210

nextPage field is missing from the json response of API 'GET /ers/config/radiusserversequence'

CSCwa15191

EP stuck in posture unknown Not able to find session in LSD by MAC

CSCvz56171

ISE Doc: ISE SDK documentation for SXP bindings contains unavailable keys

CSCwa11659

CIAM: libx11 1.6.8

CSCvy40956

[DOC] Please help with making CoA API documentation more explicit

CSCvz60870

High Active Directory latency during high TPS causes HOL Blocking on ADRT

CSCwa47133

ISE Evaluation log4j CVE-2021-44228

CSCvz50255

CIAM: bind 9.11.20

CSCwa47221

AD security groups cannot have their OU end with dot character on Client Provisioning Policy

CSCvy82023

Incorrect Posture Compound Condition Hotfixes

CSCvz79665

Microsoft Intune Graph Url change from graph.windows.net/tenant to graph.microsoft.com

CSCwa52667

not able to save the Authorization profile when include curly brackets in the profile name

CSCwa20152

CoA was not initiated on ISE for switches for which matrix wasn’t changed, hence Policy sync failed

CSCvz83753

Empty User Custom Attribute included in AuthZ Advanced Attributes Settings results in incorrect AVP

CSCvz65576

Fullupgrade wont work with patch when CLI repo or disk repo is used

CSCwa11633

ISE 3.0 : APIC Integration : Failed to create secGroup

CSCvz85117

ISE Health Check I/O bandwidth performance check false Alarm

CSCwa60873

Optimize bouncy-castle class to improve performance on PAN

CSCvy33615

ISE 3.1 BH Default profiling policies' description has space characters' hex code instead of space

CSCwa43187

ISE Queue Link Error: Message=From Node1 To Node2; Cause=Timeout in NAT'ed deployment

CSCwa16401

Get-By-Id server sequence, returns empty server list after first change made on the sequence via GUI

CSCvz00034

Changing log level of log "this update field is earlier than currunet time more than week"

CSCvy89317

ISE: DST Root CA X3 Certificate Authority - Expires by 30 Sep 2021 ( within 90 days )

CSCvw65181

CIAM found poi vulnerable

CSCvy05713

Smart licensing(Satellite/PLR) should be disabled when upgrading from 2.7 P4, 2.6 P10 to ISE 3.0

CSCwa59621

Inconsistent sorting on ERS API(s) for identity group

CSCvz74457

ERS API does't allow for use of dot character in "Network Device Group" name or create / update

CSCvo39514

MnT log processor is not running because collector log permission.

CSCvz55258

Cisco:cisco-av-pair AuthZ conditions stopped working

CSCwa46758

Deleted Root Network Device groups are still referenced in the Network Devices exported CSV Report

CSCwa52110

SNMP config set on the N/w device, a delay of 20seconds is introduced while processing SNMP record

CSCvz71872

CIAM: nss - multiple versions

CSCvz83204

ISE unable to fetch the url attribute value from improper index during posture flow

Open Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 7

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvy86859

Mac OS Beta Monterey (MacOS 12 beta 2) failing NSP MacOsXSPWizard 3.1.0.2

CSCwb07442

Pxgrid connectivity is not coming up post PAN Failover

CSCwb29140

Threads getting exhuast post moving to latest patches were nss rpm is updated(Only 3.0p5&2.7p7,3.1P1

The following hot patch files are available on CCO for CSCwb29140.

  • To install the hot patch:

    ise-apply-CSCwb29140_2.7.0.356_patch7-SPA.tar.gz

  • To rollback the hot patch:

    ise-rollback-CSCwb29140_2.7.0.356_patch7-SPA.tar.gz

Resolved Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 6

The following table lists the resolved caveats in Release 2.7 cumulative patch 6.

Patch 6 might not work with older versions of SPW. MAC users must upgrade their SPW to MACOSXSPWizard 2.2.1.43 or later, and Windows users must upgrade their SPW to WinSPWizard 2.2.1.53 or later.

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvn27270

ISE: Unable to create Network Device Group with Name, Location, or Device Type

CSCvw90586

Unable to change Network Device Group Name and Description at the same time

CSCvx23375

ISE authorization profiles option get truncated during editing/saving (Chrome only)

CSCvx48255

CIAM: screen 4.1.0 CVE-2021-26937

CSCvx58520

With PLR, Profiler Online Updates error: Failed to get License file data: null

CSCvy14905

CTS-SXP-CONN: ph_tcp_close from device to ISE SXP connection - Hawkeye

CSCvy45345

EAP-chaining authorization failure due to machine authentication, flag is incorrectly set to true

CSCvy51210

ISE 2.7 Should display an error when attempting to delete IP default label of NAD on GUI.

CSCvy53842

Certificate Validation Syslog Message Sent During Specific Certificate Audits--ISE

CSCvy71229

CIAM: libx11 1.6.8

CSCvy71261

CIAM: nettle 3.4.1

CSCvy71313

CIAM: cpio 2.12

CSCvy75191

Cisco Identity Services Engine XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

CSCvy76328

ipv6 changes the Subnet to /128 when using the duplicate option from Network device tab

CSCvy92040

ISE restore popup menu displays wrong text

CSCvy94818

EP's incorreclty profiled as "cisco-router" due to nmap performing aggressive guesses

CSCvz00258

Session Cache not cleared for Tacacs Authorization failures results in high heap usage and auth latency

CSCvz13783

The licensing page was having 0 count postpatch 13 upgrade

CSCvz18627

PEAP session timeout value restricted to max 604800

CSCvz22331

Authentication is not blocked in the policy set with Time and Date condition for a specific minute in the day.

CSCvz33839

menu access customization is not working

CSCvz34849

DELETE /ers/config/networkdevicegroup/{id} not working; CRUD exception

CSCvz36192

GET for dacls using /ers/config/downloadableacl does not add the nextPage or previousPage of exist.

CSCvz43183

Sponsor Permissions are not passed to Guest REST API for "By Name" calls.

CSCvz44655

ISE manage account selection issue

CSCvz51536

ISE Wildcard certificate failing with internal error

CSCvz70947

The Subnet/IP Add Pool Name in SG under ATZ profile is disappearing in Chrome, only specific to 2.7P5

CSCvz71459

Microsoft_intune MDM ISE change in polling interval not taking effect in cache

CSCvz99405

Open SSL is not upgraded on 2.7p4 or 2.7p5

CSCwa00729

All NADs got deleted due to one particular NAD deletion.

Open Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 6

There are no open caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7 Patch 6.

Resolved Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 5

The following table lists the resolved caveats in Release 2.7 cumulative patch 5.

Patch 5 might not work with older versions of SPW. MAC users must upgrade their SPW to MACOSXSPWizard 2.2.1.43 or later, and Windows users must upgrade their SPW to WinSPWizard 2.2.1.53 or later.


Note


If Cisco ISE patch 5 is installed and rolled back only on the PAN and not on the node that is registered to PAN, the application server on the node will be stuck in the initializing state. You must install and roll back Cisco ISE patch 5 on the node before registering the node to the PAN to avoid this issue.


Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvi53134

Account used for Cisco ISE AD Join operation may become locked after enabling Passive-ID service.

CSCvi59005

Unable to see complete list of AD groups when using scrollbar.

CSCvn25548

Displays incorrect error message saying account was disabled due to inactivity.

CSCvo56767

Error while trying to change Cisco ISE-PIC GUI admin user settings.

CSCvr03959

When "Person Being Visited" option is selected from "Email Approval Request To" drop-down list, it is not made mandatory.

CSCvr76539

Changes to Network Device Groups are not reflected in Change Audit logs.

CSCvs66551

Multiple vulnerabilities in Apache log4j.

CSCvt52104

Multiple vulnerabilities in Jetty.

CSCvt94587

"Plus License is out of compliance" message disabled while regenerating the Cisco ISE Root CA.

CSCvu04874

Suspected memory leak in io.netty.buffer.PoolChunk

CSCvu56753

CIAM: Multiple vulnerabilities in openjdk.

CSCvu72744

Replace "blacklist" with "blocked list" across all authentication and authorization rules and profiles.

CSCvu84184

Certificate chain is not sent on the guest portal.

CSCvv04957

GRUB2 Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability.

CSCvv07101

PKCS11 key store creates memory leak when endpoints are in Cisco ISE.

CSCvv55602

Policy engine enhancements.

CSCvv68293

Cisco ISE does not consume Plus license when using local or global exceptions.

CSCvv77928

Bulk certificate generation fails with "An unexpected error occurred" message after primary PAN failure.

CSCvw09827

High CPU on PSN—extension of CSCvt34876.

CSCvw69977

All SXP Mapping table contains terminated sessions.

CSCvw78019

NTP out of synchronization after upgrading to Cisco ISE Release 2.7.

CSCvw89326

For PKI-based SFTP, exporting GUI key for MnT node is only possible when it is promoted to PAN.

CSCvx01272

Generate Bulk Certificates does not include the Cisco ISE self-signed certificate.

CSCvx22229

Cisco ISE "ipv6 address autoconfig" gets removed when changing IP address of bond interface.

CSCvx47691

Session Directory topic does not update user SGT attribute after a dynamic authorization.

CSCvx53205

NIC bonding prevents MAR cache replication.

CSCvx60818

ERS self-registration portal update does not delete PSN fields as expected.

CSCvx69701

Deployment went out of synchronization due to unavailabiltiy of database connections.

CSCvx78643

Emails sent for all system alarms even when there is no email address configured.

CSCvx85675

Cisco ISE cannot handle deletion or addition of SXP-IP mappings propagation due to race condition.

CSCvx86921

RADIUS Token Identity Source prompt vs. Internal User prompt for TACACS authentication.

CSCvx96190

Top Authorization report does not show filter in scheduled reports.

CSCvx99151

Cisco ISE internal ERS user attempting to authenticate via external ID store causes REST delays.

CSCvx99675

Cisco ISE secondary PAN sends packet to other node with link local address when backup interface is configured.

CSCvy04443

MNT REST API for ReAuth fails when used in a distributed deployment.

CSCvy04665

TACACS report advance filters not working when matching full numeric ID entries.

CSCvy05954

All SXP Mappings window does not display IPv6 mappings learned via Session.

CSCvy06417

Cisco ISE persistant XSS Admin Group.

CSCvy06719

Manual Active Session report is empty.

CSCvy14342

High CPU seen on PSNs in Cisco ISE Release 2.6 Patch 3 and later releases due to PIP query evaluation.

CSCvy15058

Unable to update domains to be blocked or allowed via APIs.

CSCvy17893

Cisco ISE REST API returns duplicate values for IP-SGT mappings.

CSCvy18560

RADIUS Accounting Details report does not display Accounting details.

CSCvy20277

Special characters allowed previously in Description field for few objects no longer can be used.

CSCvy23354

Description field is not readable when Mozilla Firefox 88 is in use.

CSCvy24303

Usage Over Time chart for licenses shows wrong information.

CSCvy24370

Cisco ISE does not allow more than 6 attributes to be modified in the RADIUS sequence attributes.

CSCvy25533

"/opt/CSCOcpm/config/cpmenv.sh:line 396:<ipv6>:command not found" error seen during CLI backup.

CSCvy25550

Cisco ISE does not accept the name of custom attribute for Framed-IPv6-Address in the authorization profile.

CSCvy30119

LDAP groups disappear from Sponsor group when making other changes to options.

CSCvy32461

Sponsor user cannot edit data when phone or email fields are filled.

CSCvy34977

Application Server stuck on initializing state due to certificate template curve type P-192.

CSCvy36868

Cisco ISE Release 2.3 and later releases do not support "cariage return" <cr> character in command-set.

CSCvy36968

Unable to retrieve the license details causing features to be disabled.

CSCvy38459

Cisco ISE Release 2.7 Patch 3 GUI doesn't show all device admin authorization policies.

CSCvy38896

AAA requests without Framed-IP value causes exception in SXP process.

CSCvy40845

Updating a custom attribute through ERS request updates another attribute as well.

CSCvy41066

TACACS custom AV pair as condition in policies is not working.

CSCvy42885

Cisco ISE Application server crashes or restarts due to cancellation of configuration backup.

CSCvy43246

User unable to create a guest SSID during the Portal Creation step.

CSCvy45015

Cisco ISE Guest Self-Registration error for duplicate user when the Use Phone Number As Username option is enabled.

CSCvy46504

Intermittent error on Cisco DNA Center while trying to deploy policy from Cisco DNA Center.

CSCvy48766

Cisco ISE installation fails with database priming failed error when all-numbers subdomain is used.

CSCvy51073

Cisco ISE authorization profile ERS update ignores accessType attribute changes.

CSCvy58771

While editing a NAD, wrong device profile is mapped.

CSCvy60865

When an endpoint is moved from a switch or port where it is authenticated and the Identity Group that is referenced by an authorization policy is modified, Cisco ISE fails to send out a CoA.

CSCvy61564

Cisco ISE Release 2.7 Patch 3 ERS call does not accept RADIUS shared secret with 3 characters.

CSCvy62875

Cisco ISE Release 2.7 Patch 2: [400] Bad Request with SAML SSO OKTA on Apple devices.

CSCvy63778

REST API for CoA works with any server IP.

CSCvy65786

Configuring WMI with an AD account password containing % character results in an error.

CSCvy68023

Cisco ISE-PIC 2.7 and earlier must use TLS 1.2 with Domain Controller.

CSCvy71690

Customer fields in guest portal contains &, -, $, and #.

CSCvy72028

Cisco ISE 2.7 Patch 4: pxGrid Services > All Clients window ends with java.lang.NullPointerException.

CSCvy74456

External Cisco DNA Center authentication via Cisco ISE fails with "Invalid login credentials" error.

CSCvy74919

Cisco ISE internal users are not disabled after hitting inactivity timer.

CSCvy76262

Cisco ISE DACL syntax validator does not comply with ASA's code requirements.

CSCvy76617

Cisco ISE: Need the Select All check box device with or without filter in the NAD window.

CSCvy81435

Cisco ISE Guest SAML authentication fails with "Access rights validated" HTML window.

CSCvy82114

Wrong display of the Unicode of Chinese in First/Last name under Network Access Users.

CSCvy90691

Duplicated RADIUS Vendor ID can cause PSN to crash.

CSCvy94427

Posture lease breaks for EAP chaining from Cisco ISE Release 2.7.

CSCvy94511

TACACS report shows duplicate entries due to EPOCH time being null.

CSCvy94553

The TACACS authentication report shows duplicate entries.

CSCvy96144

UDI information is missing in the Cisco ISE GUI.

CSCvy99582

Upgrade from Cisco ISE Releast 2.4 Patch 13 to Cisco ISE Release 2.7 fails when an external RADIUS server is configured.

CSCvz01485

Cisco ISE Release 2.7 Patch 4 unable to upload .json file for Umbrella security profile.

CSCvz05704

Platform check fails for Cisco ISE that has a disk size greater than 1 TB.

CSCvz07823

Cisco ISE Release 2.7 failed to add endpoint to group.

CSCvy11865

Cisco Identity Services Engine cross-site scripting vulnerability.

CSCvy62395

Upgrade logs should be recorded in the logs directory and included in the support bundle.

CSCvx85051

Security Group's VLAN field is populated by full dictionary attribute value instead of suffix.

CSCvw90778

T+ ports (49) are open even if you disable device admin processes in Deployment windows.

Open Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 5

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvz70947

The Subnet/IP Address Pool Name added to a Security Group is missing in the Authorization Profiles window in Chrome browser

CSCwa00729

All NADs got deleted due to one particular NAD deletion.

New Features in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 4

Full Upgrade and Split Upgrade Options Added to Cisco ISE GUI

You can select one of the following options in the Administration > System > Upgrade> Upgrade Selection window to upgrade your Cisco ISE deployment:

  • Full Upgrade: Full upgrade is a multi-step process that enables a complete upgrade of your Cisco ISE deployment sequentially. This method will upgrade all nodes in parallel and in lesser time compared to the split upgrade process. The application services will be down during this upgrade process because all nodes are upgraded parallelly.


    Note


    The Full Upgrade method is supported for Cisco ISE 3.1 and above. For more information about the Full Upgrade method, see Cisco Identity Services Engine Upgrade Journey, Release 3.1.


  • Split Upgrade: Split upgrade is a multi-step process that enables the upgrade of your Cisco ISE deployment while allowing services to remain available during the upgrade process. This upgrade method allows you to choose the Cisco ISE nodes to be upgraded on your deployment.

Licensing Method for Air-Gapped Networks

Smart Software Manager (SSM) On-Prem is a connection method in which you configure an SSM On-Prem server that manages smart licensing in your Cisco ISE-enabled network. With this connection method, Cisco ISE does not require a persistent connection to the Internet.

For more information, see the Licensing Chapter in the Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide.

Resolved Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 4

The following table lists the resolved caveats in Release 2.7 cumulative patch 4.

Patch 4 might not work with older versions of SPW. MAC users must upgrade their SPW to MACOSXSPWizard 2.2.1.43 or later, and Windows users must upgrade their SPW to WinSPWizard 2.2.1.53 or later.

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCuo73496

ISE RADIUS session-timeout value restricted to max 65535

CSCvh04231

Guest Remember Me RADIUS accounting and access accept not sending guest username

CSCvo04728

MIT Kerberos 5 KDC krbtgt Ticket S4U2Self Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

CSCvq26124

ISC BIND managed-keys Trust Anchor Denial of Service Vulnerability

CSCvq58506

Show running-config fails to complete

CSCvr55906

cURL and libcurl tftp_receive_packet() Function Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVSS v3.1 Base: 9.8

CSCvr77653

cURL and libcurl tftp_receive_packet() Function Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2019-5436

CSCvr77655

GNU patch pch_write_line Function Denial of Service Vulnerability

CSCvr80914

SSSD Group Policy Objects Implementation Improper Access Control Vulnerability

CSCvr80921

ISC BIND Dynamically Loadable Zones Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

CSCvr80934

Samba Symbolic Link Traversal Vulnerability CVSS v3.1 Base: 5.4

CSCvr81463

libssh2 packet.c Integer Overflow Vulnerability CVSS v3.1 Base: 8.1

CSCvr94153

TPS - update curl lib in prrt

CSCvr97388

Samba Filename Path Separators Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

CSCvs39800

gllibc LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC Environment Variable ASLR Bypass Vulnerability

CSCvs45350

ISE shows anonymous as a username when user credential is not sent by the supplicant and only machine credential is available

CSCvs52211

Update CiscoSSL to fix CSCvg56800 - Evaluation of ISE vulnerability nginx Oct 2017

CSCvs76914

libxml2 xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover Memory Leak Vulnerability

CSCvs91984

Systemd button_open Memory Leak Vulnerability

CSCvt11130

Sh version command is not working for non-admin CLI user

CSCvt11664

ISE Feed Server fails via createLicenseSource method "FlexlmListException: Error"

CSCvt30558

Multiple Vulnerabilities in python

CSCvt44403

SSLDUMP() logs printed on Showtech via Audit logs causing showtech file to grow extensively

CSCvt51244

Multiple Vulnerabilities in activemq-all

CSCvt76509

ISE Backup file transfer logs show Success although there is no space in the SFTP Repository

CSCvt85370

Posture Condition failed with "Check vc_visInst_v4_CiscoAnyConnectSecureMobility Client_4_x is not found" error

CSCvt95762

ISE 2.6/2.7 not listing files when using RHEL as SFTP repository

CSCvu13139

In filter.c in slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.4.50, LDAP search filters with nested boolean expressions can result in denial of service

CSCvu16067

Changes in IP-TABLES causing TCP delay and TACACS latency

CSCvu18256

Application stop ise shows "Service 'stunnel' -- doesn't exist" on PAN and SAN node

CSCvu22058

ISE with DUO as External Radius Proxy drops access-reject

CSCvu38918

Operations Audit Report contains logs of of actions performed by "backend" account

CSCvu58927

Update "blacklist portal" to "blocked list portal" everywhere in the ISE UI + code

CSCvu58954

Update "blacklist identity group" to "blocked list identity group" everywhere in the ISE UI + code

CSCvu59038

Update "master/slave" terms to "primary/subordinate" in "show interface" command.

CSCvu62938

Posture fails when primary PSN/PAN are unreachable

CSCvu63833

Failed Logins to ISE GUI are not seen in Audit Report when AD is selected as the Identity Source

CSCvu68240

Daily purge is not happening and hence data to be purged does not get copied to Repository

CSCvu82889

Netstat command causing carssh shell to crash on ISE

CSCvv09167

TACACS Aggregate table is not purged properly

CSCvv14390

Max Sessions Limit is not working for Users and Groups

CSCvv19065

ISE user cannot see Guest identity in DNAC Assurance page

CSCvv29737

DNA Center Scalable Groups Sync fails with "JDBCException:could not prepare statement" error

CSCvv30161

Live session details report show incorrect Authorization profile and policy for VPN Posture scenario

CSCvv43383

NFS Repository is not working from GUI

CSCvv45340

Saving the running-config leads to loss of startup config

CSCvv61732

Unable to create unique community string for different SNMP servers

CSCvv63548

Memory Leak: PSN rmi GC collection not working properly and causing memory leak in passive id flow

CSCvv67091

Cisco Identity Services Engine Untrusted File Upload Vulnerability

CSCvv74361

ISE 3.0 Health Check License validation false Alarm

CSCvv77007

ISE sending requests to external RADIUS token server for internal Super Admin users

CSCvv79940

ISE generating CSR with hostname-x in SAN gives an error

CSCvv83510

ISE 3.0 Upgrade failing at step RuleResultsSGTUpgradeService

CSCvv85588

Memory Leak : High Allocation in by CAD_ValidateUser during PassiveID stress

CSCvv90612

WebUI restore not working in IE11

CSCvv93442

ISE 2.6p3 adding double slash "//" in file path for SFTP servers

CSCvw02887

Memory leak after adding AD groups for passive-id flow

CSCvw06722

Sponsor is unable to display the list of created guest users when accessing portal with his User ID

CSCvw08602

Not throwing error for IP overlap case

CSCvw10671

GNU.org bash rbash BASH_CMDS Modification Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CSCvw16237

Scheduled OPS backups not being triggered after PMNT reload

CSCvw17908

Pushing IP to SGT mapping from ISE to switch doesn't work if default route is tagged

CSCvw20060

Agent marks DC as down if agent service comes up before windows network interface

CSCvw22228

pxGrid ANC applyEndpointPolicy does not handle all MAC address formats correctly

CSCvw24268

Cisco Identity Services Engine Untrusted File Upload Vulnerability

CSCvw25285

Passive ID is not working stable with multi-connect syslog clients

CSCvw26415

ISE 3.0 not importing certificates missing CN and SAN into Trusted Certificate Store

CSCvw29490

Internal User custom attributes are not sent in CoA-Push

CSCvw31269

SAML groups do not work if they are applied in the Sponsor Portal Groups

CSCvw33115

ISE MNT Live Session status is not changing to Postured in VPN use case

CSCvw37844

ANC CoA not working as ISE uses hostname for internal calls

CSCvw48396

Cisco ADE-OS Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

CSCvw48403

ISE is not processing gathered SNMPv3 information for endpoint

CSCvw48697

API IP SGT mapping not returning result for [No Devices]

CSCvw49938

No TACACS Command Accounting Report for third party device with a space before TACACS command

CSCvw50381

CoA-disconnect is not issued by ISE for Aruba WLC once grace access expires

CSCvw50829

AD security groups cannot have their OU end with dot character for RBAC policies

CSCvw51801

ISE Live Session Postured session is moving to Started upon receiving an Interim Update

CSCvw53412

Support bundle should collect Hibernate.log

CSCvw53740

GNU Bash SHELLTOPTS and PS4 Environment Variables Local Arbitrary Command Injection Vulnerability

CSCvw58538

GNOME GLib file_copy_fallback Function Improper Permission Vulnerability

CSCvw58824

XStream before version 1.4.15 multiple vulnerabilities

CSCvw59312

Heap buffer overflow in Freetype CVE-2020-15999, CVE-2018-6942

CSCvw59314

Moment Module Date String Regular Expression Denial of Service Vulnerability

CSCvw59920

Multiple Vulnerabilities in c3p0

CSCvw60197

Multiple Vulnerabilities in glibc

CSCvw61589

ISE Policy Evaluation: RADIUS requests dropped after deleting policy sets

CSCvw61786

Restore Processes need to be stopped before dropping schema objects

CSCvw66483

RADIUS server sequence gets corrupted after selected external servers list was changed

CSCvw68480

When using multiple SXP nodes in ISE deployment, total number of mappings is not correctly displayed

CSCvw73529

No option for OnPrem Satellite for Smart licensing and Permanent License Reservation

CSCvw73928

NTP sync failure alarms need to be changed

CSCvw75397

MNT node name set to NULL when IP access enabled

CSCvw75563

HotSpot Guest portal displays Error Loading Page when passcode field contains special characters

CSCvw77219

Dot1x authentication failed due to duplicate manager: add=false

CSCvw78289

Authentication Passed live logs are not seen when using a profile name with more than 50 characters

CSCvw80520

Radius Authentication Details report takes time when ISE Messaging Service is disabled

CSCvw82774

Sorting based on username doesn't work in User Identity Groups

CSCvw82784

TACACS+ Endstation Network Conditions scrollbar not working

CSCvw84127

Configuration Audit detail does not show which Policy Set was modified

CSCvw85860

ISE pxGrid exceptions should have ERROR log level instead of DEBUG

CSCvw87147

Live session is not showing correct active session

CSCvw87173

AD authorization is failing for MAB authenticated endpoints

CSCvw87175

MAB authentication via Active Directory passes with AD object disabled

CSCvw88881

Database clean up hourly cron acquiring DB lock causing deployment registration failure

CSCvw90961

RBAC rules not enforced in 2.7

CSCvw93570

ISE 2.4 patch 8: Unable to edit, duplicate, or delete guest portals.

CSCvw94096

iPod not shown as an option in ISE BYOD portal

CSCvw94603

Change in Polling interval not taking effect in External MDM server (Microsoft_intune)

CSCvw95488

ISE 2.6: Runtime crashes while TACACS+ get_handle is called by a socket stream

CSCvw96371

Static policy and group assignment lost from endpoint when updating custom attributes from API

CSCvw97905

Internal user export fails with no error when certain characters are used in the encryption key

CSCvx01798

ISE RBAC: "Unable to load Network Devices" error seen while adding a network device

CSCvx04512

Admin access with certificate based authentication can be bypassed by going directly to login.jsp

CSCvx09383

"All shards failed" exception thrown when sorting endpoint applications based on Running Process

CSCvx10186

ISE remains in Evaluation expired state even after registering with Smart Licensing

CSCvx15427

Health Checks :DNS Resolvability false failures seen when ISE FQDN is configured as CNAME (alias)

CSCvx15448

Disk space healthcheck failure message must be informative

CSCvx18730

Sudo Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting Cisco Products: January 2021

CSCvx23205

Add IdenTrust Commercial Root CA 1 Certificate to ISE truststore

CSCvx27632

Authorization should Look Up MAC address in format configured in ODBC Stored-Procedures window

CSCvx28402

Support Bundle does not capture ise-jedis.log files on ISE 2.7 and later version

CSCvx30276

On re-creating Root CA, Jedis DB connection pool is not re-created

CSCvx32666

Authentication Method conditions not matching in Policy Set entry evaluation

CSCvx32764

TC-NAC services not running after unexpected power event

CSCvx36013

ISE Health Check Platform Support should update directly UI with results

CSCvx37149

SGA value Under-Provisioned for SNS3515 running all personas on same node

CSCvx37297

Error 400 While authenticating to Sponsor portal with Single Sign-on/Kerberos User

CSCvx41826

Unable to get all tenable adapter repositories with Tenable SC 5.17

CSCvx43566

No login fail log when using external username with wrong password

CSCvx43825

Receiving acct stop without NAS-IP address keep session in started state

CSCvx44815

ISE AD runtime should support rewrite a1-a2-a3-a4-a5-a6 to a1a2a3a4a5a6

CSCvx45481

CoA failed for endpoint when switch-port and Endpoint Identity Group change are changed

CSCvx46638

In EAP chaining scenario, posture policy failed to retrieve machine AD group membership

CSCvx47891

ISE not mapping correctly AMP events for new endpoints

CSCvx48922

Memory leak on TACACS flow

CSCvx50752

Add IdenTrust Commercial Root CA 1 Certificate for Smart Call Home and Smart Licensing

CSCvx51738

Add IdenTrust Commercial Root CA 1 Certificate for Network Success Diagnostics

CSCvx53761

REST query for sxplocalbindings returns code 500 "CRUD operation exception"

CSCvx54213

Network Devices > Default Device page requires Plus license to allow configuration

CSCvx57545

isedailycron temp1 tracking is causing delay in AWR reports

CSCvx58516

Top N Authentication by Network Device details are not properly displayed

CSCvx61664

ISE not updating the Json file information in the AnyConnect output config file

CSCvx70633

ISE doesn't accept % in EXEC or Enable Mode password when configuring Device configuration deployment in Advanced Trustsec setting

CSCvx71286

SXP engine failed to start due to duplicate SGT mappings after upgrading from 2.4 to 2.7P2

CSCvx78796

RADIUS Authentication Troubleshooting report shows incorrect or no data

CSCvx79693

Qualys integration is failing with ISE

CSCvx83663

ISE 2.7P3 sending packets to other node with link local address 169.254.2.2

CSCvx85391

If the username stored in ISE internal database and the authentication username differ in letter case, inactivity timer is not updated

CSCvx86571

The instruction box should be removed when the login-page message is empty

CSCvx86915

UI issues on TrustSec page

CSCvx94452

EST service not running on 2.7 p2 and above

CSCvx96915

vulnerabilities fixed in XStream 1.4.16

CSCvx99176

Incorrect IP overlap error reported for NADs using - or * in IP address ranges

CSCvy07333

Posture and BYOD flows impacted after patch installation

CSCvy15172

Cisco Identity Services Engine Self Cross-Site Scripting Issue

Open Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 4

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvx35960

TACACS+ authentications fail all of a sudden with Maximum Connection Limit Reached error.

New Features in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 3

Health Check

An on-demand health check option is introduced to diagnose all the nodes in your deployment. Running a health check on all the nodes prior to any operation helps identify critical issues, if any, that may cause downtime or blocker. Health Check provides the working status of all the dependent components. On failure of a component, it immediately provides troubleshooting recommendations to resolve the issue for a seamless execution of the operation.

Ensure that you run Health Check before initiating the upgrade process.

Business Outcome: Identify critical issues to avoid downtime or blockers.

DNS Cache

The DNS requests for hosts can be cached, thereby reducing the load on the DNS server.

This feature can be enabled in the configuration mode using the following command:

service cache enable hosts ttl ttl

To disable this feature, use the no form of this command.

no service cache enable hosts ttl ttl

Admin can choose the Time to Live (TTL) value, in seconds, for a host in the cache while enabling the cache. There is no default setting for ttl. The valid range is from 1 to 2147483647.


Note


TTL value is honored for negative responses. The TTL value set in the DNS server is honored for positive responses. If there is no TTL defined on the DNS server, then the TTL configured from the command is honored. Cache can be invalidated by disabling the feature.


Business Outcome: Load on DNS Server is reduced.

Configure TCP Parameters

To configure the TCP parameters use the Configure TCP params option (option 25) in the application configure command. Make sure you are in the Admin CLI.

For the changes to take effect, reload the Cisco ISE server on modifying any of the parameters using the Admin CLI reload.

Example

To configure the TCP parameters, use option 25.


ise/admin#application configure ise

Selection configuration option
[1]Reset M&T Session Database
[2]Rebuild M&T Unusable Indexes
[3]Purge M&T Operational Data
[4]Reset M&T Database
[5]Refresh Database Statistics
[6]Display Profiler Statistics
[7]Export Internal CA Store
[8]Import Internal CA Store
[9]Create Missing Config Indexes
[10]Create Missing M&T Indexes
[11]Enable/Disable ACS Migration
[12]Generate Daily KPM Stats
[13]Generate KPM Stats for last 8 Weeks
[14]Enable/Disable Counter Attribute Collection
[15]View Admin Users
[16]Get all Endpoints
[17]Enable/Disable Wifi Setup
[18]Reset Config Wifi Setup
[19]Establish Trust with controller
[20]Reset Context Visibility
[21]Synchronize Context Visibility With Database
[22]Generate Heap Dump
[23]Generate Thread Dump
[24]Force Backup Cancellation
[25]Configure TCP params
[0]Exit

25
This CLI allows admins to modify the TCP parameters recycle/reuse/fin_timeout
For the changes to take effect, RELOAD ISE server on modifying any of the parameter using the admin cli 'reload'. Until reload is done, the changes will not be persisted.
Select the option to configure/display tcp params.
                        1. tcp recycle
                        2. tcp reuse
                        3. tcp fin_timeout
                        4. display tcp param values
                        0. Exit
                        [1/2/3/4/0]: 1
Enable/Disable tcp recycle parameter? [e/d]: e
param recycle is already enabled..
Select the option to configure/display tcp params.
                        1. tcp recycle
                        2. tcp reuse
                        3. tcp fin_timeout
                        4. display tcp param values
                        0. Exit
                        [1/2/3/4/0]: 2
Enable/Disable tcp reuse parameter? [e/d]: e
param reuse is already enabled..
Select the option to configure/display tcp params.
                        1. tcp recycle
                        2. tcp reuse
                        3. tcp fin_timeout
                        4. display tcp param values
                        0. Exit
                        [1/2/3/4/0]: 3
Set tcp fin_timeout (60 default) <0-180> : 60
updated timeout param..
Select the option to configure/display tcp params.
                        1. tcp recycle
                        2. tcp reuse
                        3. tcp fin_timeout
                        4. display tcp param values
                        0. Exit
                        [1/2/3/4/0]: 4
Current values of the tcp parameters: 
Recycle = ENABLED
Reuse = ENABLED
Fin_timeout = 60
Select the option to configure/display tcp params.
                        1. tcp recycle
                        2. tcp reuse
                        3. tcp fin_timeout
                        4. display tcp param values
                        0. Exit
                        [1/2/3/4/0]:

Note


tcp recycle and tcp reuse parameters are disabled by default. tcp fin_timeout is set to 60 seconds by default. The valid range for tcp fin_timeout is from 0 to 180 seconds. You can set this attribute to a lower value to enhance the TACACS+ performance.


Resolved Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 3

The following table lists the resolved caveats in Release 2.7 cumulative patch 3.

Patch 3 might not work with older versions of SPW. MAC users must upgrade their SPW to MACOSXSPWizard 2.2.1.43 or later, and Windows users must upgrade their SPW to WinSPWizard 2.2.1.53 or later.

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvf61114

ERS update/create for Authorization Profile failing XML schema validation

CSCvg50777

Active session is not deleted when nas-update=true accounting attribute is included

CSCvi27454

Status of pxGrid services should be shown as active/standby instead of running/disabled

CSCvm47584

Unable to configure grace period for more than one day due to posture lease

CSCvn31249

GNU gettext default_add_message Double-Free Vulnerability

CSCvq12204

SNMPv3 user added with wrong hash after reload causing SNMPv3 authentication failure

CSCvq44063

Incorrect DNS configuration can lead to TACACS+ or Radius authentication failure

CSCvq48503

"Health status unavailable" false alarm seen

CSCvr22065

Import NAD is failing with unsupported error when shared secret key has special character (8o\v|)

CSCvr47716

Info-ZIP UnZip File Overlapping Denial of Service Vulnerability CVSS v3.0 Base 7.5

CSCvs14743

EgressMatrixCell allows duplicate creation through ERS call

CSCvs29611

ISE 2.4 p5 crashes continuously around midnight, generating core files

CSCvs38176

Error message to be corrected in Trusted Certificate window

CSCvs69726

ISE 2.2 and above affected with memory leak. Everyday 1-2% increase in native memory by PORT_Alloc_Util()

CSCvs85273

Multiple Vulnerabilities in libcurl

CSCvs96516

Multiple Cisco Identity Services Engine Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

CSCvs98094

File Remediation check is failing in ISE 2.7

CSCvt11179

"AD-Operating-System" attribute is not being fetched when this OS attribute is changed on the AD Server

CSCvt18613

Authorization conditions with AD groups not matched for TEAP EAP Chaining

CSCvt43844

runtime-aaa debugs do not print packet details in ascii

CSCvt50572

Not able to create whitelist policy via ERS API

CSCvt53541

SMS over HTTPS is not sending username/password to gateway

CSCvt55312

ISE BYOD with Apple CNA fails with 9800

CSCvt63119

ISE2.7 server runs out of processes after some MnT operation

CSCvt64739

Application Server takes more time to initialize

CSCvt65332

Error is thrown when Enter is used while creating profile description

CSCvt65853

MnT REST API for ReAuth fails when used in distributed deployment

CSCvt68108

ISE server-side authorization checks insufficient

CSCvt81194

CPU spikes are being observed at policy HitCountCollector

CSCvt82384

Rotation of diagnostics.log is not working

CSCvt83547

ISE PxGrid web clients couldn't list more than 25 subscribers

CSCvt85757

Sponsor portal display ? for non-English characters

CSCvt85836

Session cache getting filled with incomplete sessions

CSCvt89098

ISE does not reattempt wildcard replication for failed nodes

CSCvt91871

ISE RADIUS Accounting Report shows "No data found" under Accounting Details

CSCvt99349

Smart Licensing Compliance status "Released Entitlement" needs explanation

CSCvu01181

TacacsConnectionManager needs to be enhanced to remove the stale connections

CSCvu05121

Guest email not sent after changing SMTP server

CSCvu06604

Mention in documentation that AAA server in TrustSec Work Center > Components > TrustSec AAA Servers page refers to RADIUS nodes

CSCvu13368

Config backup from CLI fails with error

CSCvu14215

Sponsor group membership is removed while adding/removing AD group

CSCvu15948

TC-NAC adapter stopped scanning with nexpose

CSCvu19221

During sponsor portal configuration, support information is not properly displayed in the flowchart

CSCvu21093

Portal background displays incorrectly

CSCvu25625

ISE is returning an incorrect version for the rest API call from DNAC

CSCvu25975

Import option is not working under TACACS command sets

CSCvu28305

ISE logging timestamp shows future date

CSCvu29434

ISE 2.6 patch 6 services fail to initialize after reload on SNS 3655 PSN

CSCvu30286

ERS SGT create is not permitted after moving from Multiple matrix to Single matrix

CSCvu31176

ISE 2.4 patch 11 VPN + Posture: Apex Licenses are not being consumed

CSCvu31853

NDG added through ERS became associated with all network devices in database

CSCvu32240

When running ISE ERS API for internal user update, existing identity groups value is set to null

CSCvu33416

License out of compliance alarm displayed even for valid license

CSCvu33861

REST API MnT query to get device by MAC address takes more than 2 seconds

CSCvu33884

Cisco Identity Services Engine Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

CSCvu34433

Free space on Undo tablespace not cleared as per isehourlycron.sh cron script

CSCvu34895

Report repository export is not working with dedicated MnT node

CSCvu37873

Clicking on Details of an Unknown NAD Alarm shows an error

CSCvu39653

Session API for MAC Address returning "Char 0x0 out of allowed range" error

CSCvu41815

GBAC sync breaks on deleting VN from SG if authorization profile is mapped to the same VN for different SG

CSCvu45697

Compress messages.x files in the system

CSCvu47395

Drop_Cache required for systems with High Memory Issues

CSCvu48417

ISE ERS API DELETE device returns 500 error with more than 1 call

CSCvu49019

Suspected memory leak in Elastic search

CSCvu53836

ISE Authorize-Only requests are not assessed against Internal User Groups

CSCvu55332

REST API call can remove Network Device Group referenced in Policy Set

CSCvu55557

Minimum character requirement for RADIUS secret is not checked when REST API is used to create NAD

CSCvu58476

Improve error messaging on My Device Portal while showing identity store issues

CSCvu58793

ERS REST API returns duplicate values multiple times when filter by location

option is used

CSCvu58892

Update "master guest report" to "primary guest report" everywhere in the ISE GUI

CSCvu59093

Session database columns are missing

CSCvu59491

ISE creates new site in insiteVM (tc-nac server)

CSCvu63642

Context Visibility fuses endpoint parameters on username update

CSCvu68700

ERS API response for XML or JSON request with invalid credentials is HTTP 401 with unexpected HTML body

CSCvu70683

Alarm Suppression required for ERS queries along with suppression on iselocalstore.log

CSCvu70768

Alarms and system summary is not showing up on ISE GUI

CSCvu73387

Authentication failure with error "12308 Client sent Result TLV indicating failure"

CSCvu74198

LDAP and ODBC identity store names do not allow hyphen

CSCvu84773

Cisco Identity Services Engine Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

CSCvu87742

When ACI is configured in ISE for SXP integration, authentication fails if a third-party certificate is used

CSCvu87758

Guest password policy settings cannot be saved when set to ranges for alphabets or numbers

CSCvu90107

ISE allows duplicates device ID in ERS flow in all versions

CSCvu90703

CLDAP thread is hung and running infinite

CSCvu90761

ISE Radius Live Sessions page showing No Data Found

CSCvu91039

ISE 2.6 patch 7 not doing lookup for all mac addresses in mac list causing redirectless Posture to fail

CSCvu91601

ISE Authentication Status API call duration does not work as expected

CSCvu94025

ISE should either allow IP only for syslog targets or provide DNS caching

CSCvu94733

Guest authentication fails with "Account is not yet active" for incorrect password

CSCvu97657

Application server going to Initializing state on enabling endpoint debugs

CSCvv00377

Overlap of network devices using subnet and IP range

CSCvv00951

Application server crashes while transitioning into stopping state

CSCvv01681

Cisco Identity Services Engine Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

CSCvv04416

Endpoint data not visible on secondary Admin node

CSCvv07049

Unable to connect with an ODBC identity source

CSCvv08466

Log Collection Error alarms appear repeatedly in ISE dashboard

CSCvv08784

Unable to restore backup of ISE 2.4 patch 12

CSCvv08885

Cisco Identity Services Engine Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CSCvv09910

SYSAUX tablespace full despite fix for CSCvr96003

CSCvv10572

Unable to register IND with ISE on 2.4 patch 13

CSCvv10683

Session cache for dropped session not getting cleared, thereby causing high CPU usage on PSNs

CSCvv14001

Authorization profile not saved with proper attributes

CSCvv15811

ISE TCP ports 84xx not opened if there is shutdown interface with IP address assigned

CSCvv18317

Invalid objects in Database

CSCvv23256

ISE Authentication Status API Call does not return all records for the specified time range

CSCvv25102

Modify TCP settings to enhance TACACS+ and TCP on ISE

CSCvv26811

Policy Export without encryption key is not working properly after using the Export with Encryption Key option

CSCvv27690

While renewing ISE certificate for HTTPS, EAP, DTLS, and PORTAL, only PORTAL and Admin roles gets applied

CSCvv29190

BYOD Flow is broken in iOS 14 beta

CSCvv30133

Discovery host description text is misleading

CSCvv30226

Livelog sessions show incomplete authorization policy for VPN Posture scenario

CSCvv35921

Cannot start CSV export for selected user in internal ID Store

CSCvv36189

Radius passed-auth live logs not sent due to invalid IPv6 address

CSCvv38249

Manual NMAP not working when only custom ports are enabled

CSCvv39000

Unable to create posture condition for LANDESK

CSCvv39584

Remove ojdbc8 jar from ISE 2.6 and 2.7 patch branch

CSCvv41935

PSK cisco-av-pair throws an error if the key contains < or > symbol

CSCvv42857

MAC 11.x and its minor version support for ISE is not available

CSCvv43558

Evaluation of ISE for Apache Struts Aug20 vulnerabilities

CSCvv45063

Internal CA certificate not getting deleted when node is removed from deployment

CSCvv46034

Device admin service is getting disabled while updating Tacacs config

CSCvv46958

TrustSec enabled NADs not shown in TrustSec matrices when NDG column exceeds 255 characters

CSCvv47849

Mapped SGT entry cleared from Authorization Rules if SG name is modified in Cisco DNA Center

CSCvv48544

Health check doesn't work when ISE has NIC teaming enabled

CSCvv49403

8084/TCP EST service allowing weak and non-FIPS compliant ciphers

CSCvv50028

Heap Dump generation fails post reset-config of ISE node

CSCvv50721

Can't get the download link of NetworkSetupAssistant.exe using Aruba dynamic URL redirect

CSCvv52637

ISE Hotspot guest portal flow broken

CSCvv53221

When RADIUS Shared Secret is missing for ISE_EST_Local_Host, ISE application server goes to intializing state

CSCvv54761

Export of current active session reports only shows sessions that has been updated since midnight

CSCvv54798

Context Visibility CVS exported from CLI not showing IP addresses

CSCvv55663

ISE 2.6/2.7 repositories get deleted post ISE node reload

CSCvv57628

Suspended Guest User is not automatically removed from Endpoint Group

CSCvv57639

Saving command with parenthesis in TACACS command set gives an error

CSCvv57830

Group lookup failed as empty value is appended to the context

CSCvv58629

Certificate Authority Service initializing EST Service not running after upgrade to ISE 2.7 patch 2

CSCvv59233

ISE RADIUS Live Log details missing AD-Group-Names under Other Attributes section

CSCvv60686

ISE SXP should have a mechanism to clear stale mappings learned from session

CSCvv60923

Need the ability to use a forward slash in the IP data type of internal user custom attribute

CSCvv62382

Proxy bypass settings does not allow upper case characters

CSCvv62549

Custom Attribute from Culinda not showing in endpoint GUI page

CSCvv62729

Network Device API call throws error 500 if you query an non-existent network device

CSCvv64190

Case sensitivity on User Identity Groups causes "Select Sponsor Group Members" Window to not load

CSCvv67051

Radius Server Sequence page showing "no data available"

CSCvv67743

Posture Assessment by Condition report displays No Data with Condition Status filter

CSCvv67935

Security Group values in Authorization Profile disappear shortly after fetching

CSCvv68028

Cannot modify AUP text

CSCvv72306

No password audit will be generated after changing ISE internal user password via Switch/Router CLI

CSCvv74373

ISE 3.0 DNS resolvability false alarm

CSCvv77530

Unable to retrieve LDAP Groups/Subject Attributes when % character is used twice or more in bind password.

CSCvv77894

Bias-free text/code in upgrade and database

CSCvv80113

ISE Posture auto-update not running

CSCvv82806

Network Device IP filter does not match IPs that are inside Subnets

CSCvv91007

Smart Licensing Entitlement tab gets stuck at "Refreshing" if there is connection failure

CSCvv91234

ISE 2.6 scheduled reports are not working when primary MnT node is down

CSCvv91684

ISE Collection filters not displayed in GUI

CSCvv92203

The following error message is displayed while trying to create SGT with the name "Employees": NetworkAuthZProfile with entered name exists

CSCvv94791

Unable to sync GBAC configuration between DNAC and ISE

CSCvw00375

Unable to load Context Visibility page for custom view in ISE 2.7p2

CSCvw01225

ISE Config Restore fails at 40% with error "DB Restore using IMPDP failed"

CSCvw01829

ISE GUI Login page shows the following error with Chrome 85/86: Oops. Something went wrong

CSCvw08330

Posture does not work with dynamic redirection on third party NADs

CSCvw08765

Upgrade license check should check ISE database for smart license registration

CSCvw19706

Offline/Online Feed would fail when Timezone on ISE is set to America/Santiago

CSCvw19785

Correct AD is not shown while editing external data source posture condition

CSCvw20021

NAD location is not updated in Context Visibility ElasticSearch

CSCvw20636

Authorization Profiles show "No data available" when the NAD profile is deleted

CSCvw24227

Endpoints not purged due to an exception

CSCvw25615

ISE TACACS logging timestamp shows future date

CSCvw28441

NADs shared secrets are visible in the logs while using APIs

CSCvw36743

ISE Service Account Locked and WMI not established when special characters are used in the password

CSCvw38853

Sophos 10.x definition missing from Anti-malware condition for MAC OSX

CSCvw54878

Authorization policy is not displayed properly if it has 50 rules or more in Japanese GUI

CSCvw56938

SCH connection attempted even if smart licensing is not enabled

CSCvw59855

Affected third-party software component has to be upgraded to a version that includes fixes for the vulnerability

Known Limitations in Cisco ISE 2.7 Patch 3

Change in SNMP User Password Format and SNMP Hash Minimum Length

After applying Cisco ISE 2.7 Patch 3, SNMP user configuration might be removed due to the change in the SNMP user password format. SNMP user passwords are now displayed in hash format. You must reconfigure the SNMP user settings again.

SNMP hash with less than 80 characters will not work and you will see the below error:

snmp-server user FT10 v3 hash fe7c35f09ff1238e369968a0be273f22 fe7c35f09ff1238e369968a0be273f22
          % Error: Decryption Failed. Could not add SNMP User 

Special Characters Usage Limitations in Name and Description Fields

  • The following special characters cannot be used in the Description field for TACACS+ profiles and Device Administration Network conditions: [%\<>*^:"|',=/()$.@;&-!#{}.?]. Supported characters are: alphanumeric, underscore(_ ), and space.

  • The following special characters cannot be used in the Name and Description fields for Authorization Profiles: %\<>*^:\"|',=. Supported characters for the Name and Description fields are: alphanumeric, hyphen(-), dot(.), underscore(_ ), and space.

  • The following special characters cannot be used in the Name and Description fields for Time and Date conditions: [%\#$&()~+*@{}!/?;:',=^`]"<>". Supported characters for the Name and Description fields are: alphanumeric, hyphen(-), dot(.), underscore(_ ), and space.

New Features in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 2

User Defined Network

User Defined Network is a Cisco DNA Center solution. User Defined Network is supported in Cisco ISE Release 2.7 Patch 2 through a hotfix. User Defined Network allows end users to create private networks, or User Defined Network rooms, and group their personal devices.

For example, a student in a university dorm that has User Defined Network enabled in its network can register their devices and add them to a personal User Defined Network room.

User Defined Network end users will be able to invite other users to temporarily bring their devices into their User Defined Network room, and vice versa.

To enable User Defined Network, Cisco ISE must be added to the on-premise Cisco DNA Center account.

Validate the integration of Cisco ISE with Cisco DNA Center from your Cisco ISE administrator portal. Choose Administration > pxGrid Services > All Clients.Choose Administration > pxGrid Services > Client Management > Clients. Cisco DNA Center should appear in the list of pxGrid clients.

When the User Defined Network solution is enabled, the Cisco DNA Center Cloud automatically sends to Cisco ISE the configuration information of all the User Defined Network-registered devices on the network. This includes information on the User Defined Network room that each device currently resides in.

Cisco ISE then shares this information with the Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC) that are configured to be part of the User Defined Network solution. This sharing is accomplished as part of the normal RADIUS protocol exchanges between Cisco ISE and the connected Cisco WLCs.

For profiling and logging changes in Cisco ISE due to User Defined Network, see the Cisco ISE Administrator Guide for your release. See Chapter "Segmentation" for the related profiling changes, and Chapter "Troubleshooting" for the related logging changes.

Resolved Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 2

The following table lists the resolved caveats in Release 2.7 cumulative patch 2.

Patch 2 might not work with older versions of SPW. MAC users must upgrade their SPW to MACOSXSPWizard 2.2.1.43 or later, and Windows users must upgrade their SPW to WinSPWizard 2.2.1.53 or later.

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCuo02920

ISE not returning configured Radius AVP 18 in access-reject

CSCvb55884

ISE RBAC Network Device Type/Location View not working

CSCvd38796

No AD domain attributes retrieved for RA-VPN/CWA if AD used for both authC and authZ

CSCvh77224

ENH // Smart License registration using HTTPS Proxy fails

CSCvi35647

Posture session state need to be shared across PSNs in multi-node deployment

CSCvi62805

CSCvi62805 ISE ODBC does not convert the mac address as per configured stored procedure

CSCvj47301

ISE sends CoA to active-compliant sessions when a node-group member is unreachable

CSCvm62775

ISC BIND krb5-subdomain and ms-subdomain Update Policies Vulnerability

CSCvn12644

ISE Crashes during policy evaluation for AD attributes

CSCvn50531

tcpdump print_prefix Function Stack-Based Buffer Overread Vulnerability

CSCvn73729

Error occurred in publishing threat events - AMP adapters

CSCvn73740

EAP-TLS authentications with Endpoint profile set to not unknown fails in second authorization.

CSCvo28970

AnyConnect displays Cisco NAC agent error when using Cisco temporal agent

CSCvp17458

libssh2 SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_REQUEST Packet Handling Out-of-Bounds Read V ...

CSCvp59038

ISE Secondary PAN node sending RST to other ISE node with src ip address 169.254.2.2

CSCvp85813

Filter by specific Network Device IP address on TACACS Live Logs

CSCvp93322

Significant memory increase in MNT during Longevity test

CSCvq13431

ISE PSN node crashing while fetching context attributes during posture plus RADIUS flow

CSCvq43600

Disabled PSN persona but TACACS port 49 still open.

CSCvq48396

Replication failed alarm generated and ORA-00001 exceptions seen on ise-psc.log

CSCvq61089

My Device Portal does not show a device after BYOD on-boarding with SAML authentication

CSCvq73677

GNU patch OS Shell Command Injection Vulnerability

CSCvq86746

Multiple Vulnerabilities in jquery - guest portals

CSCvq90601

EAP Chaining: Dynamic Attribute value is unavailable

CSCvr07294

Radius Authentication and Radius Account Report performance is slow

CSCvr09749

GNU patch do_ed_script OS Shell Command Execution Vulnerability

CSCvr47732

FasterXML jackson-databind Polymorphic Typing Vulnerability CVSS v3.1 Base: 9.8

CSCvr56785

Localdisk size needs to be increased to accommodate large corefiles

CSCvr61108

PxGrid ANC API support for Session-ID

CSCvr68432

2.4P10 Endpoint added via REST has visible policy assignment only in "edit" mode

CSCvr68971

ISE IP routing precedence issue

CSCvr77676

libmspack chmd_read_headers Function Denial of Service Vulnerability

CSCvr81384

Failing Network Devices CSV import, process silently aborting without reason

CSCvr85513

core file generated on PSN

CSCvr87373

ACI mappings are not published to SXP pxGrid topic

CSCvs05260

App server and EST services crash/restart at 1 every morning

CSCvs09981

Add the capability to filter out failed COA due to MAR cache checks among group nodes in ISE

CSCvs25569

Invalid root CA certificate accepted

CSCvs38883

Trustsec matrix pushing stale data

CSCvs39880

Highload on Mnt nodes with Xms value

CSCvs40406

SEC_ERROR_BAD_DATABASE seen in system/app debug logs while removing a trusted CA cert

CSCvs44006

Cisco Identity Services Engine Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

CSCvs44795

ISE not updating SGT's correctly

CSCvs46399

AuthZ profile advanced profile for url-redirect does not allow custom HTTPS destination

CSCvs47941

Fail to import Internal CA and key on ISE2.6

CSCvs51519

NFS mounting causes crash

CSCvs53606

ISE 2.4: Administrator Login Report, Auth failed when using cert based admin auth

CSCvs55464

Creating a new user in the sponsor portal shows "invalid input"

CSCvs62081

collector log is dumped with pxgid and dnac messages

CSCvs62586

Tacacsprofile not retrieved properly using REST API

CSCvs62597

Authz Profiles not pulling properly using REST API (Pagination is missing)

CSCvs67785

Days duration is not getting updated in portal page customization for self registration portal

CSCvs70997

ISE: 2.4p9 Intermediate CA cert not installed when configuring SCEP RA

CSCvs75274

Unable to do portal customization for "certificate provisioning portal"

CSCvs78160

URT fails on a ConditionsData clause from INetworkAuthZCheck

CSCvs79836

Expired Certificates not listed for deletion

CSCvs82557

SXP Bindings are not published to pxGrid 2.0 clients

CSCvs83303

API is not retrieving the data when interim-updates are not stored DB

CSCvs85970

Having string 'TACACS' in AD join-point causes AD joinpoint to not show in AuthZ condition

CSCvs86344

ISE 2.4 Guest ERS Call Get-By-Name fails when guest username contains @ sign (guest@example.com)

CSCvs86686

Multiple Vulnerabilities in patch

CSCvs86697

Multiple Vulnerabilities in sudo

CSCvs86775

ISE 2.6 Install: Input Validation- Check IP Domain Name

CSCvs88222

Vulnerability in unzip package - RHEL 7

CSCvs88368

ISE SNMP server crashes when using Hash Password.

CSCvs91808

Importing metadata xml file with special characters results in unsupported tags error

CSCvs96541

TACACS auth/acc reports are not visbile after restoring OP backup

CSCvs97302

.dmp files not deleted from /opt/oracle/base/admin/cpm10/dpdump even after the reset-config on ISE

CSCvs98602

X.Org libX11 Client Segmentation Fault Denial of Service Vulnerability

CSCvs98604

X.Org libX11 Off-by-One Memory Write Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerabi

CSCvt00283

404 error upon refresh of success page of guest sponsored portal

CSCvt01161

NMAP - MCAFeeEPROOrchestratorClientscan fails to execute on 2.6 version of ISE

CSCvt03094

ISE expired tacacs session not cleared timely from session cache

CSCvt03292

Cert Revoke and CPP not functioning without APEX license.

CSCvt03935

Change "View" Options Wording in TrustSec Policy Matrix--ISE

CSCvt04047

POST getBackupRestoreStatus occures on every ISE page after navigating to Backup/Restore menu

CSCvt04144

No threshold option for High disk Utilization in Alarm Settings

CSCvt05201

Posture with tunnel group policy evaluation is eating away Java Mem

CSCvt07230

ISE shouldnt be allowing ANY in egress policy when imported

CSCvt08143

Time difference in ISE 2.6

CSCvt10214

[ENH] Add the ability to "GET|PUT|DELETE by Name" using the API for network devices

CSCvt11366

Exporting Endpoints from CLI results in java exception

CSCvt12236

IP SGT static mapping import not working correctly with hostnames

CSCvt13198

FasterXML jackson-databind xbean-reflect/JNDI Blocking Vulnerability

CSCvt13707

pxGrid 2.0 WebSocket distributed upstream connect issue

CSCvt13719

pxGrid 2.0 WebSocket ping pong too slow even on idled standalone

CSCvt13746

ISE doesn't display all device admin authz rules when there are more authz policies and exceptions

CSCvt14248

Certificate Authority Service initializing EST Service not running after upgrade to ISE 2.6

CSCvt15787

TCPDump - Node and Interface field Unavailable

CSCvt15893

Radius Errors/Misconfigured supplicants tables do not exist after upgrade to ISE2.6

CSCvt15935

High Load Alarms coinciding with System Summary Dashboard not populating for some nodes

CSCvt16882

When accessing the portal with iPad using Apple CNA and AUP as a link we get 400 Bad Request error.

CSCvt17335

Publishing batch logic in Pxgrid when we use WMI and REST at the same time

CSCvt17783

ISE shouldn't allow ANY SGT or value 65535 to be exposed over SGT import or export

CSCvt19657

ISE ERS API Endpoint update slow when large number of endpoints exist

CSCvt24276

Cannot add/modify allowed values more than 6 attributes to System Use dictionaries

CSCvt25610

ISE2.7 compliance counter is 0

CSCvt26108

ISE 2.7 Anyconnect configuration's deferred updates do not get saved

CSCvt31275

Two rows created in upscsnconfig table in a upgraded setup

CSCvt35044

EP lookup takes more time causing high latency for guest flow

CSCvt36117

Identity group updates for an internal user in ISE

CSCvt36322

ISE 2.6 MDM flow fails if redirect value is present in the URL

CSCvt37910

[ENH] Add the ability to "GET|PUT|DELETE by Name" using the API for /ers/config/internaluser

CSCvt38308

ISE: If min pwd length is increased then exisiting shorter pwd fails to login via GUI with no error

CSCvt40534

MNT node election process is not properly designed.

CSCvt46850

Unavailability to modify compound conditions when these are already created.

CSCvt49961

Syslog Target configured with FQDN can cause Network Outage

CSCvt57571

App-server crashes if IP-access submitted w/o any entries

CSCvt57805

Intermittent password rule error for REST API Update Operation

CSCvt61181

ISE ERS API - GET call on Network Device is slow while processing SNMP configuration

CSCvt69912

ISE still generates false positive alarm "Alarms: Patch Failure"

CSCvt69941

ISE 2.6 Redundant "Application patch install has completed successfully" Alarm

CSCvt70689

Application server may crash when MAR cache replication is enabled

CSCvt71355

pxGrid unable to delete user in INIT state

CSCvt71559

Alarm Dashlet shows 'No Data Found'.

CSCvt73927

ISE 2.7 Certificate Authority Service disabled after patch 1 installation

CSCvt73953

Mismatched Information between CLI export and Context Visibility

CSCvt80285

Cannot select every individual product when creating Anti-Malware Condition for definition

CSCvt85722

No debug log for non working MNT widgets

CSCvt87409

ISE DACL Syntax check not detecting IPv4 format errors

CSCvt93117

ise-psc.log filled up with "check TTConnection is valid" causing relevant logs to roll over

CSCvt96594

ISE 2.6 : Create Guest User using external sponsor users via ERS fails with 401 Unauthorized Error

CSCvu03572

upn.log not available for upload in ISE UI

CSCvu05164

ISE is not allowing to disable Radius in NAD via API

CSCvu10009

PUT verb for /ers/config/internaluser/name/{username}makes id&password&name mandatory in req content

CSCvu26008

portal page customisation changes are not reflecting in certificate provisioning portal

CSCvu32865

High cpu on ISE 2.7 causing authentication latency

CSCvu39890

ISE - Rollback stuck indefinitely attempting to rollback from Patch 12

CSCvu42244

Machine Authentications via EAP-TLS fail during authorization flow citing a user not found error

CSCvs42441

Service account passwords returned from server in SMS and LDAP page

New Features in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 1

Multi-DNAC Support

Cisco DNA Center systems cannot scale to more than the range of 25 to 100 thousand endpoints. Cisco ISE can scale to two million endpoints. Currently, you can only integrate one Cisco DNA Center system with one Cisco ISE system. Large Cisco ISE deployments can benefit by integrating multiple DNA Center clusters with a single Cisco ISE. Cisco now supports multiple Cisco DNA center clusters per Cisco ISE deployment, also known as Multi-DNAC.

Business Outcome: This feature for the Access Control app in Cisco DNA Center allows you to integrate up to four Cisco DNA Center clusters with a single Cisco ISE system.

Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics Support

Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics is a solution on Cisco DNA Center that improves endpoint profiling fidelity. It provides fine-grained endpoint identification and assigns labels to various endpoints. Information gathered through deep packet inspection, and probes from sources like Cisco ISE, Cisco SD-AVC, and network devices, is analyzed for endpoint profiling.

Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics also uses artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to intuitively group endpoints with similar attributes. IT administrators can review such groups and assign labels to them. These endpoint labels are then available in Cisco ISE if your Cisco ISE account is connected to an on-premise Cisco DNA Center.

These endpoint labels from Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics can be used by Cisco ISE administrators to create custom authorization policies. You can provide the right set of access privileges to endpoints or endpoint groups through such authorization policies.

Resolved Caveats in Cisco ISE Release 2.7.0.356 - Cumulative Patch 1

The following table lists the resolved caveats in Release 2.7 cumulative patch 1.

Patch 1 might not work with older versions of SPW. MAC users must upgrade their SPW to MACOSXSPWizard 2.2.1.43 or later, and Windows users must upgrade their SPW to WinSPWizard 2.2.1.53 or later.

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCuz18895

CoA REST API is not working for ASA VPN Sessions

CSCve89689

MNT API does not support special charactor

CSCvf59076

Live sessions show incorrect Authorization profile and Authorization Policy for VPN+Posture scenario

CSCvj67437

Multiple Vulnerabilities in procps-ng

CSCvk50684

Not able to delete certificate after hostname change

CSCvo22887

ISE 2.4 URT does not check is node is on a supported appliance

CSCvo49755

To enable CLI clock timezone command

CSCvo87602

Memory leak on ISE node with the openldap rpm running version 2.4.44

CSCvp07591

EAP-GTC Machine Authentication Failure Password Mismatch due to failing the UTF-8 Validation Checks

CSCvp24085

ISE 2.4 High CPU utilization on Secondary Admin Node

CSCvp73335

Radius session detail report are broken if calling-station-id contains CLIENTVPN

CSCvp88443

ISE CoA is not sent even though new Logical Profile is used under Authz Policy Exceptions

CSCvq11008

Renew ISE OCSP Responder Certificates not showing data under report - Change-Configuration-Audit

CSCvq60564

Automatic email to "Notify Known Guests" using the text to "Notify Imported Guests (Desktop only)"

CSCvq61878

Evaluation of ISE for CVE-2018-20685

CSCvq85414

Login page AUP as link does not work with iOS CNA browser

CSCvr12350

ISE : "MDM: Failed to connect to MDM server" log entry needs to have endpoint information

CSCvr13481

ISE ERS SDK NetowrkDeviceGroup DELETE does not specify ID location

CSCvr25197

After changing password via UCP, "User change password audit" report doesn't have "Identity"

CSCvr35719

Unable to get all tenable adapter repositories

CSCvr39943

Blank Course of Action for Threat events received from CTA cloud to TC-NAC adapter

CSCvr40359

ISE not using the device-public-mac attribute in endpoint database

CSCvr40545

EAP-FAST authentication failed with no shared cipher in case of private key encryption failed.

CSCvr40574

Export failed in ISE gui in case of private key encryption failed no ERROR msg in ISE GUI

CSCvr43077

Day0: iPad OS 13.1 BYOD flow got failed

CSCvr44495

pxGrid Arab Bank defensive code change

CSCvr48101

Unexpected COAs may be observed with SCCM MDM

CSCvr51959

ISE 2.4 Not entire fqdn is matched, but fragment of characters

CSCvr57378

DHCP messages are marking endpoints active increasing the active endpoint count

CSCvr60339

Typo in Max Sessions Page on Counter time limit tab

CSCvr62517

ISE 2.4 p9 Session directory write failed : String index out of range: -1

CSCvr63504

Unable to delete SCEP profile because it is referencing system certificates

CSCvr67988

ISE sponsor's e-mail gets CC'd even when view/print guests' passwords is disabled

CSCvr70044

" No policy server detect" on ISE posture module during high load .

CSCvr70581

Called-Station-ID missing in RADIUS Authentication detail report

CSCvr71796

SCCMException in SCCM flow,ISE updating the MDMServerReachable value as false in the MDMServersCache

CSCvr81522

Definition date for few AM product like mcafee and symantec is listed false

CSCvr83696

ISE: prefers cached AD OU over new OU after changing the Account OU

CSCvr84143

tzdata needs to be updated in ISE guest OS

CSCvr84753

ISE 2.2 patch 14 AD status shows up as "updating.." indicating the process is hung

CSCvr84978

ISE: LDAP bind test does not use the correct server when defined per node

CSCvr85363

ISE App crash due to user API

CSCvr87936

Valid Base and Plus licenses show out of compliance

CSCvr90773

LiveLogs show wrong username for '5436 NOTICE RADIUS: RADIUS packet already in the process' messages

CSCvr92420

Async Http Client Improper Input Validation Vulnerability

CSCvr95948

ISE fails to re-establish External syslog connection after break in connectivity

CSCvr96003

SYSAUX tablespace is getting filled up with AWR and OPSSTAT data

CSCvr98395

Profiling CoA for IP based Profile Policy isn't sent

CSCvs01949

ISE Messaging service triggers Queue Link error alarms with the reason basic_cancel

CSCvs02166

API calls show different result as GUI

CSCvs03195

Max Session Counter time limit option is not working

CSCvs03810

ISE doesn't display the correct user in RADIUS reports if the user was entered differently twice

CSCvs04433

ISE : TACACS : PSN crashes for TACACS+

CSCvs05104

Set max time frame to 60 mins when EndPoint default interval disabled

CSCvs07344

ISE: Reset config on 2.4 patch 9 throws some errors despite finishing successfully.

CSCvs12409

ISE Guest creation API validation for Guest Users valid Days doesn't take time into account

CSCvs14297

PassiveID: Configuring WMI with an AD account password that contains a $ will result in an error.

CSCvs19481

Cisco Identity Services Engine Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

CSCvs20356

Apple minibrowser - Reset password link is not working in Self registration guest login page

CSCvs20357

Apple minibrowser - Cancel button is not working in Guest Self registration page

CSCvs23628

Policy engine continues to evaluate all Policy Sets even after rule is matched

CSCvs25258

Improve behavior against brute force password attacks

CSCvs27310

ISE 2.6 and 2.7 - Cannot add character ' on dACLs description field.

CSCvs36036

ISE 2.6 should allow multiple blank lines in dACL syntax, even if user chooses IPv4 (or) IPv6.

CSCvs36150

ISE 2.x Network Device stuck loading

CSCvs36758

Unable to configure CRL URL with 2 parenthesis at ISE 2.6

CSCvs39633

NAD group CSV imports should allow all supported characters in description field.

CSCvs40813

Missing the following properties in platform.properties for <sns3615> ,<sns3655> <sns3695>

CSCvs41571

Self Registered Guest portal unable to save guest type settings

CSCvs42072

Unable to edit static group assignment

CSCvs42758

The CRL is expired with specific condition

CSCvs46853

ISE 2.6 CA Certificate with the same CN removed from Trusted Store while integrating with DNA-C

CSCvs46998

Condition disappeared from the library but is still in DB

CSCvs51296

ISE allows to insert a space before command under Command Sets

CSCvs51537

Backups are not triggering with special characters for encryption key

CSCvs53148

Multiple EP's profiled every second causing ISE nodes to go out of sync

CSCvs55594

Days to Expiry value, marked as 0 for random authentications

CSCvs58106

NAD CSV imports should allow all supported characters in the TrustSecDeviceID

CSCvs60518

ISE Admin User Unable To Change The Group For Internal Users

CSCvs65467

Cisco Identity Services Engine Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

CSCvs65989

After importing network device / groups, unable to add new Location

CSCvs67042

ISE 2.2+ affected with memory leak. Everyday 1-2% increase in native memory due to Inflater()

CSCvs68914

Errors when SG created using _ underscore sent from DNAC

CSCvs76257

ISE crashes due to empty string instead of username in RadiusProxyFlow::stripUserName()

CSCvs77182

ISE: Unable to use attribute "url-redirect" with HTTPS, same URL with HTTP works fine.

CSCvt02530

SMS not reaching guests when Country Code Attribute part of mobile number

CSCvt15256

Authentication goes to process fail when "Guest User" ID Store is used.

CSCvr63698

pxGrid 2.0 authorization profile attribute missing from the session directory

Open Caveats in Cisco ISE, Release 2.7

The following table lists the open caveats in Release 2.7:

Caveat ID Number

Description

CSCvq11008

Renew ISE OCSP Responder Certificates CSR usage data not shown in Change Configuration Audit report

CSCvp54416

Device SGT troubleshooting provides wrong diagnostics

CSCvr86006

Node status is not displayed correctly in the System Summary dashlet

CSCvr91946

Issuance of Certificates fails for more than 10% of endpoints

CSCvr93902

Pop-up window that allows the admin to add comments to the approval request in the Network Device Deployment window is not properly displayed

CSCvr95284

RADIUS mappings are not published to SXP pxGrid topic

CSCvr99920

"show timezone" command doesn't show timezone on CLI

CSCvs02589

NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED error seen in Chrome on macOS 10.15 when the validity of self-signed server certificate is set to 5 years

CSCvs03195

Max Session Counter time limit option is not working

CSCvs10238

While importing policy from CSV file, if there is policy download, partial updates observed

CSCwc83059

Post full upgrade VCS information is missing

CSCwe99609

Timestamps need adjustment whenever timezone is changed

CSCwe99666

Live logs and live sessions pages are displayed in incorrect sorting order when timezone is changed on PSN and MnT nodes

CSCwe99706

Session data is shown at the bottom when PSNs are in different timezones

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