Bug ID 713820: Pass in IP address to urldb categorization engine

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1

Fixed In:
14.1.0, 13.1.1.2

Opened: Apr 05, 2018

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

Category lookup results might be inaccurate. In some cases, the system returns 'uncategorized' when the reference (Forcepoint) returns a specific category.

Impact

Actions leveraging categorization results are applied incorrectly.

Conditions

Category Lookup agent is in per-request policy using the categorization engine to lookup up a website's classification.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

This release can now pass in more information to the urldb categorization engine, which supports finer-grained categorization.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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