Ok so let me first say that I'm a total n00b at security, so please forgive if I don't include all details.
Home license
7.202
no pf rules allowing any>any
HTTP proxy setup using all defaults
I was running a nessus scan against my internal network, and I found the following on the 8080 proxy port.
"Proxy accepts CONNECT requests to itself
The proxy allows the users to perform
repeated CONNECT requests to itself.
This allow anybody to saturate the proxy CPU, memory or
file descriptors.
** Note that if the proxy limits the number of connections
** from a single IP (e.g. acl maxconn with Squid), it is
** protected against saturation and you may ignore this alert.
Solution: reconfigure your proxy so that
it refuses CONNECT requests to itself.
Risk factor : Medium
Nessus ID : 17154"
I dug around in webadmin and I can't find anything in which you might be able to close this apparent hole. I noticed that while running the scan I effectively DoS'd the box and once the scan was done everything returned to normal.
Anyone run into this before?
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