Nagios is using deprecated SSH cryptographic settings

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Nuggel1234
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Nagios is using deprecated SSH cryptographic settings

Post by Nuggel1234 »

Hello,

we have a vulnerability:

Vulnerability ID: q038739

The SSH protocol (Secure Shell) is a method for secure remote login from one computer to another.

The target is using deprecated SSH cryptographic settings to communicate.

Consequences:
A man-in-the-middle attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerability to record the communication to decrypt the session key and even the messages.

...............
Is there a posibility to:
a) deactivate ssh from the nagios server
b) allow only few ips access to ssh (without firewall...)
c) make it safe?

Thank you
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cdienger
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Re: Nagios is using deprecated SSH cryptographic settings

Post by cdienger »

You can deactive sshd on a cent/rhel 7/deb/ubuntu machine with:

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systemctl disable sshd
systemctl stop sshd
You can also increase the security by specifying strong ciphers and macs:

https://www.golinuxhub.com/2018/03/best ... y-ciphers/

Limiting access to specific IPs is also possible:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... ip-address
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Nuggel1234
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Re: Nagios is using deprecated SSH cryptographic settings

Post by Nuggel1234 »

ok thank you :) problem solved
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Re: Nagios is using deprecated SSH cryptographic settings

Post by scottwilkerson »

Nuggel1234 wrote:ok thank you :) problem solved
Great!

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