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Cheops NG clear text authentication
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Service detection
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Mitigation
Created
Created
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
A Cheops NG agent is running on the remote host. Users with a valid account on this machine can connect to this service and use it to map the network, port scan machines and identify running services. Passwords are transmitted in clear text and could be sniffed. More, using this Cheops agent, it is possible to brute force login/passwords on this system.
Solution
Solution
Configure Cheops to run on top of SSL or block this port from outside communication if you want to further restrict the use of Cheops.