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mariol66
Jun 21, 2017Aspirant
Netgear Prosafe FVS336Gv3 Leaving Telnet port 23 open
I am running a PCI Compliance vulnerability check on my network, and I am being flagged for having port 23 Telnet open. I have read that this is closed by default so I'm not sure why it is appearing....
JohnC_V
Jun 29, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi mariol66,
I checked the port 23 to your network and it is showing that it is online/reachable. For now, you may change the default password of your firewall to avoid security risk. Then please try to login to the firewall via console. We may need to disable the telnet from the CLI of the firewall. Just in case that it is not possible to access it via CLI. Please save/backup a configuration file then reset the firewall to factory default as telnet management is disabled by default.
Here is the CLI manual from SRX5308 but it has the same configuration for the device that you have(page 188).
Regards,
mariol66
Jun 30, 2017Aspirant
I've never used the CLI interface of a Netgear router prior. What commands do I need to run, and what Windows utility do I need to use to achieve this?
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