full-disclosure - HTTP AUTH BASIC monowall.

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Message-ID: <441846F1.6080108@snosoft.com>
Date: Wed Mar 15 16:55:21 2006
From: simon at snosoft.com (Simon Smith)
Subject: HTTP AUTH BASIC monowall.

Ok,
    As suspected... so I am correct; and it is a security threat. I can
compromise a network, arp poison it, MiTM, access the firewall,
distributed metastasis, presto... owned...


Michael Holstein wrote:
>> which brings up a question... what are the odds that someone could
>> forcefully redirect traffic to their proxy after having compromised a
>> network? Could this be done with arp poisoning? I haven't toyed with
>> that in a while so I can't say yes or no...
>
> If it's Ethernet, and you're on the same broadcast network, yes. Check
> out arpspoof (part of dsniff). You also need to setup a userspace
> router to forward the packets -- easiest way is fragrouter.
>
> FYI : this also works quite well on wireless.
>
> ~Mike.


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Regards, 
	Adriel T. Desautels
	Harvard Security Group
	http://www.harvardsecuritygroup.com