Re: IKE Aggressive Mode Downgrade Attack?

[Lee <ler762 () gmail com>]

On 4/30/15, Melchior Limacher <mli () protect7 com> wrote:
> Hello
>
>
> I was reading about "ike aggressive mode with pre shared key"
> (CVE-2002-1623).
>
> As described by cisco
> (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk583/tk372/technologies_security_notice09186a008016b57f.html),
> this is still an issue
> "When responding to IPSec session initialization, Cisco IOS(r) software
> may use Aggressive Mode even if it has not been explicitly configured
> to do so. Cisco IOS software initially tries to negotiate using Main
> Mode but, failing that, resorts to Aggressive Mode."
>
> Are there known downgrade attacks? Counter-Measures?

  crypto isakmp aggressive-mode disable
should be the counter-measure.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/security/a1/sec-a1-cr-book/sec-cr-c4.html#wp7822516900
   To block all Internet Security Association and Key Management
Protocol (ISAKMP)
   aggressive mode requests to and from a device, use the
      crypto isakmp aggressive-mode disable
   command in global configuration mode.

Regards,
Lee

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