Title

Google Search Appliances providing remote access capabilities must utilize approved cryptography to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network (e.g., the Internet). Examples of remote access methods include dial-up, broadband, and wireless. Remote network access is accomplished by leveraging common communication protocols and establishing a remote connection. These connections will typically occur over either the public Internet or the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Since neither of these internetworking mechanisms are private nor secure, if cryptography is not used, then the session data traversing the remote connection could be intercepted and compromised. Cryptography provides a means to secure the remote connection so as to prevent unauthorized access to the data traversing the remote access connection thereby providing a degree of confidentiality. The encryption strength of mechanism is selected based on the security categorization of the information traversing the remote connection.

Check Content

Open the GSA Web Admin Console at https:<your GSA IP or hostname>:8443. Log on to the GSA management interface. Click Administration >> Remote Support. If "Enable SSH for Remote Support" is unchecked, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

Open the GSA Web Admin Console at https:<your GSA IP or hostname>:8443. Login to the GSA management interface. Click Administration >> Remote Support. Uncheck the option "Enable SSH for Remote Support". Click Update.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-74825r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-60395

Group Title: SRG-APP-000014

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