Dan,
Can't help you with the ciphers, but it should be simple to verify the internal
IP leakage. Using a tool called 'stunnel' you can create a transparent SSL
tunnel from your PC to the target, such that:
nc localhost 443
will connect to stunnel (listening on port 443 on your box). Stunnel will then
setup an SSL encrypted session with the target. You can then 'talk' HTTP as
normal, and stunnel will transparently encrypt/decrypt the SSL traffic to the
server. For example:
[root@localhost ~]# nc localhost 443
GET /exchange HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 401 Access Denied
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:28:47 GMT
WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
WWW-Authenticate: NTLM
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="192.168.0.1"
Content-Length: 24
Content-Type: text/html
Error: Access is Denied.
You can see here that because you've not specified a 'Host:' header, the IIS
server uses its own IP address for the realm info. This typically happens when
a server is hidden behind a NAT gateway.
Hope that helps,
Cheers,
Carl
Network Security Consultant
Agenda Security Services
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Rogers [mailto:pentestguy@gmail.com]
Sent: 21 July 2005 16:06
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: verify HTTPS 'vulnerabilities'
List,
Simple question:
I have a report from Nessus telling me that a web server is offering
'export class' cyphers for it's SSL/TLS service. Nessus also managed
to obtain an internal IP address from the host (which is correct).
Only HTTPS is open.
However the target host requires basic authentication, and I don't
have any credentials to obtain access. I would like to verify these
manually, and would usually just use something like wfetch. However,
I'm not getting the usual prompt that my encryption is too weak.
Instead in the response I can see a message saying the page cannot be
displayed. There is also no sign of the internal IP address.
Can anyone tell me how they would prove that they are not false
positives (I know the IP address is correct, but the client may want
to replicate the vulnerability so they can be sure when they go to fix
it)?
thanks
Dan
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