On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Binet, Valere (NIH/NIA/IRP) [C]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having undesired auto-response triggering lately.
> We whitelist our internal IP range on the OSSEC server. One of our IPs is 
> being a "bad boy" running a Nessus scanner and therefore triggering tons of 
> OSSEC alerts. The problem is that the auto-response blocks that IP at the 
> firewall even it is part of a whitelisted range.
>
> Config info :
> OSSEC version 2.6.1

Is there any chance you can test a recent version?

> OSSEC server's ossec.conf (partial)
>
> <ossec_config>
>   <global>
>     <email_notification>yes</email_notification>
> ...
>     <white_list>127.0.0.1</white_list>
>         <white_list>137.187.160.0/22</white_list>
> <!-- ... other whitelists -->
>  </global>
> ...
>   <!-- Active Response Config -->
>   <active-response>
>     <!-- Firewall Drop response. Block the IP for
>        - 600 seconds on the firewall (iptables,
>        - ipfilter, etc).
>       -->
>     <command>firewall-drop</command>
>     <location>defined-agent</location>
>         <agent_id>401</agent_id>
>     <rules_id>5712,5720,30109,31151,31152,31153,31154</rules_id>
>     <timeout>600</timeout>
>     <repeated_offenders>10,10,30,60</repeated_offenders>
>   </active-response>
> ...
> </ossec_config>
>
> auto-response.log on the firewall (tail)
>
> Sun Apr 27 18:58:48 EDT 2014 /var/ossec/active-response/bin/firewall-drop.sh 
> add - nessus.nia.nih.gov<http://nessus.nia.nih.gov> 1398639528.265373436 5720
> Sun Apr 27 19:09:19 EDT 2014 /var/ossec/active-response/bin/firewall-drop.sh 
> delete - nessus.nia.nih.gov<http://nessus.nia.nih.gov> 1398639528.265373436 
> 5720
> Sun Apr 27 19:11:54 EDT 2014 /var/ossec/active-response/bin/firewall-drop.sh 
> add - nessus.nia.nih.gov<http://nessus.nia.nih.gov> 1398640314.267444639 5720
> Sun Apr 27 19:22:39 EDT 2014 /var/ossec/active-response/bin/firewall-drop.sh 
> delete - nessus.nia.nih.gov<http://nessus.nia.nih.gov> 1398640314.267444639 
> 5720
> Sun Apr 27 19:25:06 EDT 2014 /var/ossec/active-response/bin/firewall-drop.sh 
> add - nessus.nia.nih.gov<http://nessus.nia.nih.gov> 1398641106.269913714 5720
> Sun Apr 27 19:35:37 EDT 2014 /var/ossec/active-response/bin/firewall-drop.sh 
> delete - nessus.nia.nih.gov<http://nessus.nia.nih.gov> 1398641106.269913714 
> 5720
>
> Logs on the server don't seem to show anything clearly linked to this issue.
> Searches on the user-list archives and on DuckDuckGo didn't help.
>
> I didn't choose to install the Nessus scanner and I'm not allowed to get rid 
> of it. Other than that, every suggestion is welcomed.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Valère Binet [C]
> IT Security Administrator
> Kelly Government Solutions On-Site at the NIH
> NIH / NIA / IRP
> Tel : 410 558 8013
> mailto:  [email protected]
>
>
> NCTS performance comments and survey at:
> https://niairpkiosk.irp.nia.nih.gov/content/ncts-user-survey
>
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