Rule version RCKS-NDM-000730 · STIG v1 · 2025-05-28
Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate the identity of other devices for connections that are of greater risk.
A local connection is any connection with a device communicating without the use of a network. A network connection is any connection with a device that communicates through a network (e.g., local area or wide area network, internet). A remote connection is any connection with a device communicating through an external network (e.g., the internet).
Because of the challenges of applying this requirement on a large scale, organizations are encouraged to only apply the requirement to those limited number (and type) of devices that truly need to support this capability.
View SNMP users:
SSH@ICX# show snmp user
username = admin1 acl name = <none> group = lab security model = v3 group acl name = <none> group ipv6 acl name = <none> authtype = sha authkey = 6e3e368283194dffcdabde95c9c44e795de911c2 privtype = aes privkey = c8b94fccfc1c845ed8a0d7b172405feb engine ID= 80 0 7c7 3d4c19e609a58
If any users are not configured for authtype sha, this is a finding.
Delete any SNMP users not configured for SHA/AES. Configure SNMP user account for SHA/AES.
SSH@ICX(config)#snmp-server user test_admin test_group v3 auth sha256 [security-string] priv aes [security-key]