SNMP configured with default community public/private-paloaltonetworks-panos
Vendor: paloaltonetworks
OS: panos
Description:
Indeni will alert if any of SNMP communities is set to “public” or “private”.
Remediation Steps:
If SNMPv2 has to be used, use a random community that is hard to guess. If possible switch to SNMPv3 instead, which uses username and password instead of a single community string.
How does this work?
This alert uses the Palo Alto Networks API interface to parse through SNMP Trap profiles and alert the admin if the community name is set to “PUBLIC” or “PRIVATE”.
Why is this important?
If the default SNMP communities are configured, like “public” or “private” it could allow unauthorized clients to poll the device.
Without Indeni how would you find this?
Login to the device’s web interface and click on “Device” -> “Server Profiles” -> “SNMP Trap”.
panos-snmp-trap-default-community
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cross_vendor_snmp_communities_default
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