Sun Cobalt Adaptative Firewall Detection

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1471

Synopsis

Sun Cobalt hosts contain a firewall mechanism, which can be configured remotely using Cobalt's built-in HTTP server.

Description

Sun Cobalt hosts contain a firewall mechanism, which can be configured remotely using Cobalt's built-in HTTP server. To access it, a user simply has to enter a passphrase which could possibly be brute-forced.

Solution

Block incoming connections to this port

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 1471

Family: Web Servers

Published: 8/20/2004

Updated: 6/1/2015