full-disclosure - Re: Linksys Routers still Vulnerable to Wps vulnerability.

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:13:07 -0700
From: chris nelson <sleekmountaincat@...il.com>
To: Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Linksys Routers still Vulnerable to Wps
	vulnerability.

also here:  http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=47038  and
here:
http://adaywithtape.blogspot.com/2012/01/cracking-wpa-using-wps-vulnerability.html


On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:09 PM, chris nelson <sleekmountaincat@...il.com>wrote:

> i believe that disabling wps on router still leaves some routers
> vulnerable was reported on before.
> from
> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/hands-on-hacking-wifi-protected-setup-with-reaver.ars
> "Having demonstrated the insecurity of WPS, I went into the Linksys'
> administrative interface and turned WPS off. Then, I relaunched Reaver,
> figuring that surely setting the router to manual configuration would block
> the attacks at the door. But apparently Reaver didn't get the memo, and the
> Linksys' WPS interface still responded to its queries—once again coughing
> up the password and SSID. "
>
> the testing i did was in early-mid jan, ill verify my findings again. at
> work now, but will let you know about config methods.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com> wrote:
>
>> That's a fairly significant finding.  Can anyone else confirm the
>> existence of devices that still fall to Reaver even when WPS is disabled?
>>
>> Chris, when you run:
>>
>> iw scan wlan0 | grep “Config methods”
>>
>> Do you see a difference in advertised methods?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:58 PM, chris nelson <sleekmountaincat@...il.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> i have tested reaver on a netgear and linksys (dont have model nos. with
>>> me) with wps disabled and enabled. the wps setting did not matter and both
>>> were vulnerable. was able to recover wpa2 passphrase in ~4 hrs on both.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Steve while he's often derided goes into this very well.  Many cisco's
>>>>> only stop advertising wps when it is "off" but wps actually still
>>>>> exists...which means they are still easily hackable.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have you directly confirmed a WPS exchange can occur even on devices
>>>> that aren't advertising support?  That would indeed be a quick and dirty
>>>> way to "turn the feature off".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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