Vulnerability Development: Re: Router worm exploiting poor SNMP security.

[Jose Nazario <jose () BIOCSERVER BIOC CWRU EDU>]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, M ixter wrote:

[after an inquiry about an snmp worm]

> That's certainly an interesting thought... I routinely find
> default communities in routers during penetration tests, and
> the problem is much more widespread than many people think.
presumably you'd be using snmpset, right, to maliciously infect? why not
consider TFTP transfers of boot images to various routers, too, to spread.
since TFTP is never authenticated, it should be trivial to spoof the TFTP
server. i know that quite a number of popular routers are capable of TFTP,
is it still in wide use in the wild (i don't work on other people's
routers).

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