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Remove TLS_RSA for PFS?
Given these ciphers supported on an 11.6.2HF1 LTM, if the server is using RSA certificates, to prevent the ROBOT vulnerability, do we just need to remove the (7) TLS_RSA ciphers noted at the end of this list? TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA Thank you for your thoughts on how best to proceed.
- Simon_Blakely
Employee
If you are running 11.6.2 HF1, you have already mitigated ROBOT even if you continue to use RSA key Exchange.
K21905460: BIG-IP SSL vulnerability (ROBOT) CVE-2017-6168
Please be aware of the note in K21905460
Note: Fixed BIG-IP versions do not disable RSA key exchange, they eliminate the existing code flaw in our implementation of RSA key exchange. Due to influences outside the control of the BIG-IP system, some SSL rating sites and scanners may falsely report that fixed versions are vulnerable to CVE-2017-6168. In these instances you may want to contact the scanner vendor to report the false positive result.
- Suzyw720_345395
Nimbostratus
Thanks very much S.Blakely for your response. I believed I took the necessary mitigation steps & was surprised to see a scanning site provide a false positive. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. If I may expand on the PFS portion of the question, I just read in another post that "requiring PFS involves setting our clientssl profile cipher string to include only ECDHE and DHE (but not ADH) ciphers and to disallow RSA key exchanges. It can be as simple as setting your cipher string to DEFAULT!RSA or ECDHE:DHE". Does that approach sound correct?
- Simon_Blakely
Employee
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- Suzyw720_345395
Nimbostratus
As a fairly new DevCentral user, I am unsure how to flag the comment as answering my query, but I will attempt to find out how to do so & do it for other users.
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