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Network
Management
Security
Ola Flygt
Växjö University, Sweden
http://w3.msi.vxu.se/users/ofl/
[email protected]
+46 470 70 86 49
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Outline
 Basic Concepts of SNMP
 SNMPv1 Community Facility
 SNMPv3
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The Internet Standard Management
Framework
SNMP network management consists of four parts:
 Management Information Base (MIB)
 A map of the hierarchical order of all managed objects and how
they are accessed
 Structure of Management Information (SMI)
 Rules specifying the format used to define objects managed on the
network that the SNMP protocol accesses
 SNMP Protocol
 Defines format of messages exchanged by management systems
and agents.
 Specifies the Get, GetNext, Set, and Trap operations
 Security and administration capabilities
 The addition of these capabilities represents the major
enhancement in SNMPv3 over SNMPv2
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Basic Concepts of SNMP
 An integrated collection of tools for network
monitoring and control.
 Single operator interface
 Minimal amount of separate equipment. Software
and network communications capability built into
the existing equipment
 SNMP key elements:
 Management station
 Management agent
 Management information base
 Network Management protocol
 Get, Set and Notify
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Management Information
Bases (MIB)
 SNMP agent is software that runs on a piece
of network equipment (host, router, printer,
or others) and that maintains information
about its configuration and current state in a
database
 Information in the database is described by
Management Information Bases (MIBs)
 The MIB specifies the managed objects
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Management Information
Bases (MIB)
 The MIB is a text file that describes managed
objects using the syntax of ASN.1 (Abstract
Syntax Notation 1)
 ASN.1 is a formal language for describing
data and its properties
 In Linux, MIB files are in the directory
/usr/share/snmp/mibs
 Multiple MIB files
 MIB-II (defined in RFC 1213) defines the managed
objects of TCP/IP networks
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Managed Objects
 Each managed object is assigned an object
identifier (OID)
 The OID is specified in a MIB file.
 An OID can be represented as a sequence of
integers separated by decimal points or by a
text string. Example:
 1.3.6.1.2.1.4.6.
 iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.ip.ipForwData
 When an SNMP manager requests an object,
it sends the OID to the SNMP agent.
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MIB Example
ipForwDatagrams OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter
ACCESS read-only
STATUS mandatory
DESCRIPTION
"The number of input datagrams for which this
entity was not their final IP destination, as a
result of which an attempt was made to find a
route to forward them to that final destination.
In entities which do not act as IP Gateways, this
counter will include only those packets which were
Source-Routed via this entity, and the SourceRoute option processing was successful."
::= { ip 6 }
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Protocol context of SNMP
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Proxy Configuration
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SNMP v1 and v2
 Trap – an unsolicited message
(reporting an alarm condition)
 SNMPv1 is ”connectionless” since it
utilizes UDP (rather than TCP) as the
transport layer protocol.
 SNMPv2 allows the use of TCP for
”reliable, connection-oriented”
service.
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Comparison of SNMPv1 and SNMPv2
SNMPv1 PDU
SNMPv2 PDU
Direction
Description
GetRequest
GetRequest
Manager to agent
Request value for each
listed object
GetRequest
GetRequest
Manager to agent
Request next value for
each listed object
------
GetBulkRequest
Manager to agent
Request multiple
values
SetRequest
SetRequest
Manager to agent
Set value for each
listed object
------
InformRequest
Manager to manager
Transmit unsolicited
information
GetResponse
Response
Agent to manager or
Manage to
manager(SNMPv2)
Respond to manager
request
Trap
SNMPv2-Trap
Agent to manager
Transmit unsolicited
information
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SNMPv1 Community Facility
 SNMP Community – Relationship
between an SNMP agent and SNMP
managers.
 Three aspect of agent control:
Authentication service
Access policy
Proxy service
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SNMPv1 Administrative
Concepts
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SNMPv3
 SNMPv3 defines a security capability to
be used in conjunction with SNMPv1 or v2
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SNMPv3 Flow
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Traditional SNMP Manager
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Traditional SNMP Agent
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SNMP3 Message Format with USM
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User Security Model (USM)
 Designed to secure against:
Modification of information
Masquerade
Message stream modification
Disclosure
 Not intended to secure against:
Denial of Service (DoS attack)
Traffic analysis
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USM Encryption
 Authentication (using authKey)
HMAC-MD5-96
HMAC-SHA1-96
 Encryption (using privKey)
DES CBC
Uses first 64 bits of the 16-octet privKey
Last 64 bits used as IV to DES CBC
 Key values not accessible from SNMP
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Authoritative Engine
 SNMP messages with payloads that
expect a response (Get…, Set, Inform)
Receiver of message is authoritative
 SNMP messages with payload that does
not expect response (Trap, Response,
Report)
Sender is authoritative
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Key Localization
 Allows single user to own keys stored
in multiple engines
Key localized to each authoritative engine
using hash functions
Avoids problem of a single key being
stored in many places
 Greatly slows brute force attack
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Key Localization
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Timeliness
 Determined by a clock kept at the
authoritative engine
 When authoritative engine sends a message, it
includes the current clock value
 Nonauthoritative agent synchronizes on clock value
 When nonauthoritative engine sends a message,
it includes the estimated destination clock value
 These procedures allow assessing message
timeliness
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View-Based Access Control
Model (VACM)
 VACM has two characteristics:
Determines whether access to a managed
object should be allowed.
Make use of an MIB that:
Defines the access control policy for this
agent.
Makes it possible for remote configuration to
be used.
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Access control decision
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SNMPv3 Security
 SNMPv3 solves SNMP security problems,
right?
 NOT!
 Decent security implementation, but reality
is:
 SNMPv1 still holds ~95% of the market (2005)
 Even SNMPv2 not widely deployed
 Upgrading to SNMPv3 is difficult and costly (sort
of like moving from Win95 to WinXP all at once)
 There is the issue of proxies and foreign clients
 SNMPv3 is the clear long-term choice
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