Rule:

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Sid:
1411

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Summary:
This event is generated when an SNMP connection over UDP using the default 'public' community is made.

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Impact:
Information gathering

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Detailed Information:
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) v1 uses communities and IP addresses to authenticate communication between the SNMP client and SNMP daemon. Many SNMP implementations come pre-configured with 'public' and 'peivate' communities. If these are not disabled, the attacker can gather a great deal of information about the device running the SNMP daemon.

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Affected Systems:
Devices running SNMP daemons with 'public' community enabled.

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Attack Scenarios:
An attacker scans a range of IPs for SNMP servers having the 'public' community set and gathers information about the hosts.

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Ease of Attack:
Simple.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Disable the 'public' and 'private' communities before connecting the device with SNMP on the Internet or block access to SNMP ports using a packet filtering firewall for unauthorized addresses.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Research Team
Brian Caswell <bmc@sourcefire.com>
Nigel Houghton <nigel.houghton@sourcefire.com>
Snort documentation contributed by Chaos <c@aufbix.org>

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