Another Reason to Disable the Cisco IOS HTTP Interface
Date Posted: December 06, 2005 07:07 AM
Author: Mel Beckman
Microsoft usually wins all awards for quantity and quality of network vulnerabilities, but don't be distracted. There are enough security holes for everyone, and it's easy to become complacent about seemingly innocuous devices like routers and switches. A case in point is a just-announced bug in Cisco IOS that affects all devices -- both routers and switches -- from version 11.0 through 12.4. The problem is with IOS' HTTP interface, a not very useful option that nevertheless is turned on by default in most Cisco products. This interface is a security time bomb, and should be disabled in virtually every Cisco deployment.

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