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QRadar: "Exception Reading CRE Rules" with X-Force Threat Intelligence tests

Troubleshooting


Problem

Administrators are reporting Exception Reading CRE Rules, with rules that contain X-Force Threat Intelligence conditions. 

Symptom

This error message is based on the default X-Force rules and can be found on the dashboard: 
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher] com.q1labs.semsources.cre.CustomRuleReader: [ERROR] [NOT:0040023100][/- -] [-/- -]Exception Reading CRE Rules. The current rule set is incomplete because the following rule(s) failed to load: 1:[ID=117489,NAME="BB:Threats: Suspicious IP Network Traffic",PARENTS=[(ID=117639,NAME="Suspicious Network Traffic to Internal Web Server")]]2:[ID=114839,NAME="BB:BehaviorDefinition: Communication with a Potential Hostile Host (Flows X-Force Categorization)"]3:[ID=117239,NAME="BB:Threats: Suspicious Network Traffic",PARENTS=[(ID=117639,NAME="Suspicious Network Traffic to Internal Web Server")]]4:[ID=114939,NAME="BB:BehaviorDefinition: Communication with a Potential Hostile IP Address (Flows X-Force Categorization)"]. This list includes any parent rules which were consequently removed. To see the exceptions which caused this, view the error log. If this problem persists, please contact customer support.
Trace from /var/log/qradar.error:
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher] com.q1labs.semsources.cre.tests.AQL_Test: [ERROR] [NOT:0000003000][/- -] [-/- -]Failed to parse parameters of rule BB:Threats: Suspicious IP Network Traffic
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher] com.q1labs.frameworks.nio.exceptions.ExtendedRuntimeException: XForce_IP_Confidence function: Error during initialization null
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.core.aql.XForce_IP_Confidence.initialize(XForce_IP_Confidence.java:60)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.util.Utils.initialize(Utils.java:459)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.ariel.ql.parser.SingleArgAdapter.initialize(ScalarFunctionInfo.java:1266)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.ariel.ql.parser.ScalarFunctionPredicate.initialize(ScalarFunctionInfo.java:1368)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.util.Utils.initialize(Utils.java:459)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.ariel.IndexPredicate.initialize(IndexPredicate.java:234)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.util.predicate.AbstractCompositePredicate.initialize(AbstractCompositePredicate.java:45)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.util.predicate.AbstractCompositePredicate.initialize(AbstractCompositePredicate.java:45)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.util.predicate.AbstractCompositePredicate.initialize(AbstractCompositePredicate.java:45)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.util.predicate.AbstractCompositePredicate.initialize(AbstractCompositePredicate.java:45)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.util.predicate.AbstractCompositePredicate.initialize(AbstractCompositePredicate.java:45)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.util.predicate.AbstractCompositePredicate.initialize(AbstractCompositePredicate.java:45)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.util.Utils.initialize(Utils.java:459)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.semsources.cre.tests.AQL_Test.setParms(AQL_Test.java:71)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.semsources.cre.tests.CREEventTest.init(CREEventTest.java:123)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.semsources.cre.CustomRule.<init>(CustomRule.java:224)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.semsources.cre.CustomRuleReader.preProcessNewRules(CustomRuleReader.java:1171)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.semsources.cre.CustomRuleReader.readRules(CustomRuleReader.java:685)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.semsources.cre.CustomRuleReader.objectChanged(CustomRuleReader.java:1652)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.events.config.ConfigurationChangeEvent.dispatchEvent(ConfigurationChangeEvent.java:125)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher]    at com.q1labs.frameworks.events.SequentialEventDispatcher$DispatchThread.run(SequentialEventDispatcher.java:129)
[ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [d9ec8361-b1eb-43d1-a372-38eb225ce9d2/SequentialEventDispatcher] Caused by: com.q1labs.core.aql.XForceManager$XForceManager$XForceFunctionsNotAvailableException: Client is not currently available, likely due to connection issues. See logs produced by com.q1labs.core.aql.XForceManager for details

 

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Modified date:
24 March 2023

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ibm16857303

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