Bug #10155
closed
sshguard is not compatible with RFC 5424 log format
Added by Jim Pingle over 4 years ago.
Updated over 3 years ago.
Affected Architecture:
All
Description
pfSense 2.5.0 has an option to change the syslog style from the default RFC 3154 format to the new RFC 5424 format. However, sshguard does not appear to parse the messages properly when fed RFC 5424 format log data.
I tested with ssh messages so it shouldn't be anything specific to pfSense at play here.
- Assignee deleted (
Jim Pingle)
Brief review didn't turn up any options that might help, and I didn't see any similar format messages in the sshguard tests.txt list. I opened an issue upstream with sshguard: https://bitbucket.org/sshguard/sshguard/issues/124/sshguard-does-not-parse-rfc-5424-format
If it isn't addressed before we need to ship 2.5.0, then we should at least add a warning to the syslog format selection option in the GUI alerting the user to the potential danger of using the other format.
sshguard 2.4.1 is now imported into pfSense 2.5.0
- Status changed from New to Feedback
- Assignee set to Jim Pingle
- Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
This looks good now, thanks!
<38>1 2020-09-22T09:23:54.244277-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshd 93676 - - Invalid user blah from 198.51.100.148 port 16703
<38>1 2020-09-22T09:23:54.259618-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshd 93676 - - Postponed keyboard-interactive for invalid user blah from 198.51.100.148 port 16703 ssh2 [preauth]
<37>1 2020-09-22T09:23:54.281547-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshguard 7044 - - Attack from "198.51.100.148" on service SSH with danger 10.
<35>1 2020-09-22T09:23:55.452488-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshd 93676 - - error: PAM: Authentication error for illegal user blah from 198.51.100.148
<38>1 2020-09-22T09:23:55.453918-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshd 93676 - - Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user blah from 198.51.100.148 port 16703 ssh2
<37>1 2020-09-22T09:23:55.455279-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshguard 7044 - - Attack from "198.51.100.148" on service SSH with danger 10.
<38>1 2020-09-22T09:23:55.461549-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshd 93676 - - Postponed keyboard-interactive for invalid user blah from 198.51.100.148 port 16703 ssh2 [preauth]
<35>1 2020-09-22T09:23:56.717308-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshd 93676 - - error: PAM: Authentication error for illegal user blah from 198.51.100.148
<38>1 2020-09-22T09:23:56.718296-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshd 93676 - - Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user blah from 198.51.100.148 port 16703 ssh2
<37>1 2020-09-22T09:23:56.718801-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshguard 7044 - - Attack from "198.51.100.148" on service SSH with danger 10.
<36>1 2020-09-22T09:23:56.718916-04:00 pfsense.home.arpa sshguard 7044 - - Blocking "198.51.100.148/32" for 120 secs (3 attacks in 2 secs, after 1 abuses over 2 secs.)
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