On 25.4.2014 11:00, Petr Spacek wrote:
On 25.4.2014 10:11, Martin Kosek wrote:
On 04/25/2014 09:50 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
Hello,
I am having a think about running freeipa on the open seas for more
distributed organisations and would like to understand where the
weaknesses might be. I would almost certainly only make the ui
unavailable however I am unsure about the other services.
Would this be a workable?
Thanks,
Andrew
That's actually a very good question. I am currently working on a public
FreeIPA demo on Red Hat OpenStack platform which I will make available in
upcoming weeks and have few pointers for you:
1) If you have DNS configured, make sure that your FreeIPA DNS does not pose as
open DNS resolver to avoid DNS amplification attacks.
Following extension to named.conf options should be a good start:
allow-transfer {"none";};
This configuration applies only to zones defined in named.conf and not to
FreeIPA zones defined in LDAP.
Make sure that allow-transfer is configured for FreeIPA zones:
$ ipa dnszone-mod --allow-transfer="none;" example.
allow-recursion {"none";};
recursion no;
version "[Secured]";
rate-limit {
responses-per-second 15;
You may need to modify this value to fit your needs.
Further reading about DNS amplification attacks:
http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-088A
Further reading about Response Rate Limiting:
http://bkraft.fr/blog/bind_RRL_feature/
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01000/0/A-Quick-Introduction-to-Response-Rate-Limiting.html
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00994/0
};
2) Prevention for NTP amplification attack
More info here:
https://support.steadfast.net/Knowledgebase/Article/View/106/0/preventing-ntp-amplification-attacks
Further reading about NTP amplification attacks:
http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-013A
Does anybody know about other precautions that should be made besides standard
hardening (SELinux, firewall, log audits)?
I wonder if Kerberos over UDP could have the same problem... Maybe only if you
have some principals with disabled pre-authentication. I don't know. Kerberos
is not listed on
http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-017A ...
I realized that you probably want to disable anonymous access to LDAP. It will
prevent random strangers to enumerate all users in your database...
--
Petr^2 Spacek
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