Telnet is enabled on the device-checkpoint-gaia

Telnet is enabled on the device-checkpoint-gaia

Vendor: checkpoint

OS: gaia

Description:
Indeni will check if a device has Telnet enabled. Telnet is not encrypted and is therefore a security risk.

Remediation Steps:
Disable Telnet on the device.

How does this work?
If “telnet” is enabled on the device, it is recommanded to disable it and enable “ssh” to remediate the security risks.

Why is this important?
The system service “telnet” should be disabled on the device for security reasons.

Without Indeni how would you find this?
An administrator could log on to the device to identify whether telnet is enabled.

chkp-gaia-telnet-enabled

name: chkp-gaia-telnet-enabled
description: Identify whether or not telnet is enabled
type: monitoring
monitoring_interval: 30 minute
requires:
    vendor: checkpoint
    os.name: gaia
comments:
    telnet-enabled:
        why: |
            The system service "telnet" should be disabled on the device for security reasons.
        how: |
            If "telnet" is enabled on the device, it is recommanded to disable it and enable "ssh" to remediate the security risks.
        can-with-snmp: false
        can-with-syslog: false
steps:
-   run:
        type: SSH
        command: ${nice-path} -n 15 grep telnet /config/active; ${nice-path} -n 15
            clish -c "show net-access telnet"
    parse:
        type: AWK
        file: gaia-telnet-enabled.parser.1.awk

cross_vendor_telnet_enabled

Failed to fetch the data: https://bitbucket.org/indeni/indeni-knowledge/src/master/rules/templatebased/crossvendor/cross_vendor_telnet_enabled.scala