Unless the network is lying to me again, married said:
> First time question to the list. Hopefully it is clear. If more info
> is required, let me know.
Please wrap your lines at ~70 characters.
> A cisco rouer managed by an HP OpenView box gets compromised. The
> person who compromised the router now has the RO and RW community
> string of the OpenView box. Can the OV box now be compromised from
> the Cisco router? Can any information be gleaned now from the OV
> box about the networks it manages...?
The community strings are for the ROUTER, not for the OV box, so you don't
have any immediate compromise (using those passwords), HOWEVER, owning the
router allows you to do all sorts of 'interesting' things which could lead
to other parts of your network being compromised.
AlanC
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