[Freeipa-users] FREAK Vulnerability

[Martin Kosek]

On 01/21/2016 05:54 PM, Terry John wrote:
>>> I've been trying to tidy the security on my FreeIPA and this is
>>> causing me some problems. I'm using OpenVAS vulnerability scanner and
>>> it is coming up with this issue
>>>
>>> EXPORT_RSA cipher suites supported by the remote server:
>>> TLSv1.0: TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC2_CBC_40_MD5 (0006)
>>> TLSv1.0: TLS_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5 (0003)
>>>
>>> It seems we have to disable export  TLS ciphers but I can't see how. I've edited /etc/httpd/conf.d/nss.conf and disabled all SSL and TLSV1.0.
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>>> NSSCipherSuite -all,-exp,+<the ones I want>
>>>
>>> I've restarted httpd and ipa but it still fails
>>>
>>> Is there something I have overlooked
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>> Hi Terry,
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>> Please check
>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5589
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>> We are trying to come up with a better cipher suite right now. The fix should be in some of the next FreeIPA 4.3.x versions.
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>> The ticket has more details in it.
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> Thanks for the info. I have tried nearly all the NSSCipherSuite settings in that ticket but none so far has eliminated the FREAK report.
> Christian thanks for the heads up on the syntax, I wasn't sure of what I was doing
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> Each time I've made a change I've run an sslscan from the OpenVAS scanner and I do get a different result each time but the errors still remains in OpenVAS.
> Aaargh! Just noticed the port is 636/tcp(!) which is ns-slapd.

Just for the record, 389 Directory Server cipher suites for 636 were much 
improved in
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4395
https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/47838
i..e FreeIPA 4.0.3+ (and RHEL/CentOS 7.1 too).

So that port should not use any really unsecure ciphers any more.

> Back to the drawing board :-)
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