EtherType list permits any EtherType
At a glance
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Reads the export, not the device
ConfigProof reads a configuration export. This control is evaluated against the objects in that file, and it reports what the file says. It does not connect to the device and sees no traffic, so a finding here describes the configuration, not what the firewall is doing right now.
Why it matters
In transparent mode an any permit lets every non-IP protocol cross the bridge, including ones nothing on the network needs.
How to fix it
Web interface
The steps below are written for the web interface. A finding raised on your own export carries the same steps with your object names filled in.
- In ASDM: Configuration > Firewall > EtherType Rules, replace the any rule with the EtherTypes the network needs (BPDU, for example). Apply and save.
- On the CLI: no access-list <list> ethertype permit any, then access-list <list> ethertype permit bpdu (and the others needed), and write memory.
Command line
Cisco ASA CLI
configure terminalno access-list <access-list> ethertype permit anyaccess-list <access-list> ethertype permit bpduendwrite memory
An example. Values in angle brackets are yours to supply; a finding on your own export fills in the names it read. Typed in configuration mode; write memory saves it, with no separate commit. Read every line first.
Read it back
show access-list <access-list>Values to fill in1
- <access-list>
- The access list
Before you type it2
- Written from the ASA 9.x command reference and not run on a device: read each line before you paste it.
- In multiple context mode, type it in the context it applies to (changeto context <name>).
How to confirm the fix
- Run show access-list <list>.
Limits
- No limitation is recorded for this control beyond the one that applies to all of them: it reads a configuration export.
Compliance references
No benchmark recommendation is mapped to this control in this version.
More in Security Policies
- ASA-SEC-001Inbound entry allows any destination or any service
- ASA-SEC-002permit ip any any entry
- ASA-SEC-004Untrusted inbound list without an explicit logged deny
- ASA-SEC-005Entry covered by an earlier entry
- ASA-SEC-006Inactive entry left in a list
- ASA-SEC-009Remote administration, file sharing or database port open inbound
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