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SEC03 EGI-CSIRT Critical Vulnerability Handling

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Title EGI-CSIRT Critical Vulnerability Handling
Document link https://documents.egi.eu/document/283
Last modified 8
Policy Group Acronym EGI-CSIRT
Policy Group Name EGI-CSIRT
Contact Group csirt@mailman.egi.eu
Document Status DRAFT
Approved Date
Procedure Statement The scope of this procedure is to maintain a properly patched infrastructure and make sure that CRITICAL Vulnerabilities are handled adequately by all involved entities.
Owner Owner of procedure


Overview

After a problem has been assessed as critical, and a solution or a mitigation is available then sites are required to take action. This document primarily defines the procedure from this time, when sites are asked to take action, and what steps are taken if they do not respond or do not take action. If a site fails to take action, this may lead to site suspension.

Definitions

Please refer to the EGI Glossary for the definitions of the terms used in this procedure.

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", “MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

Entities involved in the procedure

  • SVG: svg-rat at mailman.egi.eu
  • EGI-CSIRT Security Officer: irtf at mailman.egi.eu
  • NGI-Security-Officer: ngi-security-contacts at mailman.egi.eu
  • Resource Center Security Contact: as defined in goc-db

Requirements

This procedure applies to Vulnerabilities assessed as CRITICAL by EGI-CSIRT/SVG. The assessment process and the resulting required steps to handle vulnerablities is described in: described in the Vulnerability issue handling process.

Steps

Vulnerability affecting Resource Center services or resources

Step# Responsible Action Prerequisites, if any Time to comply
1 EGI-CSIRT / SVG Send advisory as per Vulnerability issue handling process SVG and/or EGI-CSIRT assessed the vulnerability as CRITICAL. *
2 Resource Center Upgrade the affected software to a non vulnerable version or apply mitigations Non-vulnerable version available or mitigation described in the advisory 7 Calendar days after Step 1
3 EGI-CSIRT / Security Monitoring Update Security Monitoring to check for vulnerable software versions/configurations Vulnerability detectable via Pakiti or other external probles 7 Calendar days after Step 1
4 EGI-CSIRT Security Officer For each RC who failed to comply to step 2, the Security Officer opens an RT-IR ticket against the RC.

Mails are send from RT-IR to the RC CSIRT E-Mail and the NGI Security E-Mail as set in GOC-DB.

Failure to comply to step 2 *
5 Resource Center Any notified RC has to comply to the actions required by the Security Officer to resolve the vulnerability.

In particular, RC are expected to respond to the ticket after having fixed the vulnerability and, when applicable, manually run the Pakiti client.

Vulnerable site notified during step 4 3 working days after step 4
5 bis NGI-Security-Officer NGI Security Officer/Management should coordinate the activities in their NGI, in particular follow up with unresponsive sites within the given target times. *
6 EGI-CSIRT Security Officer For each RC who failed to comply to step 5, the EGI-CSIRT Security Officer temporarily suspends it from the infrastructure by setting the Certification Status of this RC to Suspended in GOC-DB. The EGI-CSIRT Security Officer will inform the NGI Security Officer and EGI Operations of this action RC failing to comply to step 5 *
7 Resource Center Suspended RCs might request recertification as per PROC09 RC suspended in step 6 *

A diagram representing this procedure is available as an pdf.

Revision History

Version Authors Date Comments
8 Sveng 16. Jul. 2015
8 Vincent Brillault 27. Jul. 2015 Split in two