The snmpd service must not use a default password.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-38653	RHEL-06-000341	SV-50454r1_rule		High

Description
Presence of the default SNMP password enables querying of different system aspects and could result in unauthorized knowledge of the system.

STIG	Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2015-05-26

Details

Check Text ( C-46213r1_chk )
To ensure the default password is not set, run the following command: # grep -v "^#" /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf| grep public There should be no output. If there is output, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43602r1_fix)
Edit "/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf", remove default community string "public". Upon doing that, restart the SNMP service: # service snmpd restart