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Posted: **Fri Jul 17, 2026 5:40 pm**

When you open proxmox port for public you also open up a vulnerability, there exist millions of webcrawlers searching for open ports (8006 being one of them).

First strategy to protect yourself is to install fail2ban, it will then block bruteforce attempts after X amount of tries.

1. (tutorial from https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Fail2ban )

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apt update
apt install fail2ban

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cp /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf /etc/fail2ban/jail.local

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nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.local

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Add this to the bottom of the file

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[proxmox]
enabled = true
port = https,http,8006
filter = proxmox
backend = systemd
maxretry = 3
findtime = 2d
bantime = 1h

Save and Exit

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nano /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/proxmox.conf

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Add this

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[Definition]
failregex = pvedaemon\[.*authentication failure; rhost=<HOST> user=.* msg=.*
ignoreregex =
journalmatch = _SYSTEMD_UNIT=pvedaemon.service

Save and Exit

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Restart proxmox service

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systemctl restart fail2ban

An other smart thing to do is to add a route to 8006 in nginx instead of opening the port.

Warning: If you use evrPanel you just need to add the route inside npmplus, you don't need to do anything below. This is for nginx users only. evrPanel users should log into npmplus and just add a route to localip:8006.

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sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/proxmox

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add

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server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    server_name proxmoxer.domain.tld;

    location / {
        proxy_pass https://10.0.0.2:8006;

        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";

        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

        proxy_ssl_verify off;

        proxy_buffering off;
        proxy_request_buffering off;

        client_max_body_size 0;

        proxy_connect_timeout 60s;
        proxy_send_timeout 3600s;
        proxy_read_timeout 3600s;
        send_timeout 3600s;
    }
}

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sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/proxmox /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/proxmox

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sudo nginx -t

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sudo systemctl reload nginx

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx

sudo certbot --nginx \
  -d proxmoxer.domain.tld \
  --redirect

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certbot will now add the ssl and put it into the configuration file, certbot will also monitor the cert and renew it when needed.

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