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| Subject: | Re: Open Ports on Cisco Router |
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| Date: | Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:53:59 -0500 |
Just as a safety precaution, you should issue:
no ip tcp-small-servers no ip udp-small-servers
It'll get rid of Time, Echo, Chargen, etc.
I have a Cisco 1720 router that showed telnet open
after a recent audit. I closed down telnet by
applying an acl to the vty lines and then nmap'ed from
the outside to verify. Telnet is indeed closed, but
other ports appeared open now! What's more, different
ports appear open when scanning at different times. It showed tcp ports 21, 25 and 80 open at one time,
but in another scan showed 143 in addition to the
above. Late in the evening, it showed none of the
above open, but a range of ports starting around 8000.
No UDP ports show open.
I ran nmap with the following command:
nmap -sT -P0 -sV -v -p 1-65535 A.B.C.D
Here is a portion of the router config:
version 12.3
. . . ip subnet-zero no ip source-route
. . . interface FastEthernet0 ip address 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 ip nat outside speed auto half-duplex ! interface Serial0 ip address A.B.C.D 255.255.255.252 ip access-group filter_outside_in in no ip redirects no ip unreachables no ip proxy-arp no nat outside no fair-queue no cdp enable ! ip nat inside source list 10 interface Serial0 overload ip classless ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Serial0 no ip http server
. . .
ip access-list extended filter_outside_in deny ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any deny ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any deny ip 224.0.0.0 15.255.255.255 any deny ip host 0.0.0.0 any deny icmp any timestamp-request deny icmp any redirect deny icmp any mask-request deny icmp any traceroute deny icmp any echo permit ip any any access-list 10 permit 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.255 ----------------------------------------
So, the router is NAT'ing, and, btw, it also has a firewall behind it. The ports that show up in the scans of the router match up very well with the ports used regularly at this location, so I thought it might have something to do with NAT dynamically openning ports. However, it still seems very strange to me and I wanted to know if anyone else has seen this behavior and what explains it. TIA!
Bob
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