full-disclosure - Re: [FD] heartbleed OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160

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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:39:31 +0200
From: Txalin <txalin@...il.com>
To: craig@...eaunetworks.com
Cc: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: Re: [FD] heartbleed OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160

> How realistic is it that an attacker would be able to glean passwords
through
> this vulnerability?

Checked by myself yesterday in some websites with login/pass form in (sites
from my company, don't blame me). I took less than 2 minutes to get 3
user/password combinations, so, easy as hell.

PD: First message in FD, hi all!!!

2014-04-10 0:32 GMT+02:00 Craig Holmes <craig@...eaunetworks.com>:

> On April 8, 2014 10:21:34 AM Matthew Musingo wrote:
> > Even if your systems were patched  an attacker could have already
> attained
> > the secrets.
> >
> > Certs and other sensitive information need to be reconsidered for
> > replacement or changed
> How realistic is it that an attacker would be able to glean passwords
> through
> this vulnerability? Programatically searching through 64k memory dumps for
> certificates seems plausible, but looking for passwords does not. A
> password is
> of no pre-determined length or format. So unless you know what strings are
> wrapped around it (and those strings are reliably presented), isn't the
> loss
> of some types of sensitive information.... unlikely?
>
> Cheers.
> Craig
>
>
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