A recently conducted security scan highlighted that several ports were open and therefore presented a security vulnerability: 2052 2053 2082 2083 2086 2087 …
I ran sudo nmap -sS -Pn -p 2052 -T4 -vv --reason xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and found that 2052 was open.
Why is port 2052 (and presumably the other ports listed) open even though they should presumably be blocked by the firewall?
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Hi there,
Looking at the ports it seems like a cPanel/WHM server. Are you using CSF as the firewall?
If so you need to explicitly close the ports via CSF by removing them from the Allowed hosts list in the /etc/csf/csf.conf file and then restarting CSF with this command:
csf -r
Also if the ports are already closed, any IP addresses that have been allowed via CSF would have access to all ports even though the ports are closed. So you need to remove the IP address of the penetration testing company from the CSF allow list in order to have valid results.
Regards, Bobby
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