The snmpd service must not use a default password.

From Oracle Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-64919r1_rule The snmpd service must not use a default password.

Vulnerability discussion

Presence of the default SNMP password enables querying of different system aspects and could result in unauthorized knowledge of the system.

Check content

To ensure the default password is not set, run the following command: # grep -v "^#" /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf| grep public There should be no output. If there is output, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit "/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf", remove default community string "public". Upon doing that, restart the SNMP service: # service snmpd restart

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