Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.

Simon Lyall simon.lyall at ihug.co.nz
Tue Feb 27 01:54:04 UTC 2001



It appears that 2500 are not affected.

The fix below doesn't work on 11.1 and 11.2 , you have to turn snmp off by
the looks.

have fun.

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:39:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: "James A. T. Rice" <jamesr at rd.bbc.co.uk>
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Subject: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.
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If your router responds to `snmpwalk router.isp.net.uk ILMI`, you
probabally will want to do the following to disable it:
   conf t
   snmp-server community ILMI RO 99
   access-list 99 deny any log
(pick another spare access-list if 99 isn't available)

If you dont, assuming your ios/hardware combination supports it,
(most of the bigger routers do) anyone can do things like:
          `snmpset router.isp.net.uk ILMI system.sysName.0 s \
          "ALL YOUR ROUTER ARE BELONG TO US."`
Thats a harmless example. You can do almost anything with RW snmp.

Warm Regards
James

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James A. T. Rice             | Email: jamesr at rd.bbc.co.uk
Internet Operations Engineer | Phone: 01737 839 737
BBC Internet Services, Kingswood Warren, Tadworth, Surrey, UK.

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