RIP-1 Poisoning Routing Table Modification

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39588

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Synopsis

It may be possible to hijack connections on this network.

Description

This host is running a RIP-1 agent.

RIP-1 does not implement authentication. An attacker on the same network may feed the target machine bogus routes and hijack network connections.

Note that Nessus cannot test this flaw as it is not running on the same network.

Solution

Either disable the RIP agent if it is not used or use RIP-2 and implement authentication.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39588

File Name: rip1_poison_lan.nasl

Version: Revision: 1.6

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 7/2/2009

Updated: 8/3/2015

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Services/udp/rip

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