Hi guys,
We have failed our monthly pen test which relates to the BEAST attack on CBC ciphers. I have read numerous articles and recommendations, and I think I know what needs to be done, but I just need someone to confirm this.
Affected systems are all web servers Windows 2003 IIS6 (yes getting on now I know)
From the copious amounts of reading and trying to understand the relationship between the protocols and ciphers i.e. is there one pool of ciphers which all the enabled protocols use etc. I think I need to disable all weak ciphers + ciphers that have CBC written in the description. This leaves just 2 ciphers - TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA & TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 which if my understanding is correct, both SSL3.0 and TLS1.0 will use?!?!
On the Trustwave report, it states that to disable all Block based ciphers and to only support RC4 ciphers. But when using IIS Crypto to leave only RC4 128/128 ticked in the ciphers list, and using Qualys SSL labs to check the available cipher lists, it still shows a few CBC ciphers. So I have removed these from within the Schannel which leaves only - TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA & TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
As these web servers are accessed by thousands of customers, I just need to be sure I have understood correctly what’s needed to be able to pass the pen test.
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
James
Thanks for your comment. We are planning to upgrade later this year, but in the meantime I need to have a solution in place as soon as possible.As we stand, I just need to confirm the above to cipher suite are the only ones I can have enabled on 2003 server side.
Many thanks netcmh