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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn’t be able to MITM a plaintext connection inside a corporate network with this attack by itself. You could only MITM something that the attacker can access without your VPN.

Any corporate network that has an unsecure, publicly accessible endpoint that prompts for credentials is begging to be hacked with or without this attack.

Now you could spoof an login screen with this attack if you had detailed info on the corporate network you’re targeting. But it would need to be a login page that doesn’t use HTTPS (any corporations, dumb enough to do that this day and age are begging to be hacked), or you’d need the user to ignore the browser warning about it not being secure, which that is possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm tech support so I've seen some stuff, sooo many intranet sites on internal servers don't have HTTPS, almost only the stuff built to be accessible from the outside has it. Anything important with automatic login could be spoofed if the attacker knows the address and protocol (which is likely to leak as soon as the DHCP hijack is applied, as the browser continues to send requests to these intranet sites until it times out). Plaintext session cookies are also really easy to steal this way.

Chrome has a setting which I bet many orgs have a policy for;

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#OverrideSecurityRestrictionsOnInsecureOrigin

Of course they should set up TLS terminators in front of anything which doesn't support TLS directly, but they won't get that done for everything