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Embedded Devices Leak Authentication Data Via SNMP
msm1267 writes: "Researchers have discovered previously unreported problems in SNMP on embedded devices where devices such as secondary-market home routers and a popular enterprise-grade load balancer are leaking authentication details in plain text. The data could be extracted by gaining access to the read-only public SNMP community string, which enables outside access to device information. While only vulnerabilities in three brands were disclosed today, a Shodan search turns up potentially hundreds of thousands of devices that are exposing SNMP to the Internet that could be equally vulnerable."
Also SNMPv3 is very poorly supported by many monitoring tools.
I sometimes wonder if SNMPv3 is *deliberately* made awkward and easy to misconfigure, somewhat like IPSEC...
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When I was in a certain 3rd world country, which shall remain nameless, I found that a router at the National Datacenter had snmp public exposed to the world. It was interesting to find that it had ports named for all the ISPs in the country and a mirror port carrying lots of data, the volume of which corresponded to the sum of all the ISP's ports... and all these ISPs routes went through that National Datacenter.
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