

They are not succesptable to c2mitm, the port shadow still applies. We have tested against FreeBSD-13 with IPFW, PF, and IPF and found that, while
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Successfully tested the full FreeBSD-13 with natd and OpenVPN. Version of any VPN that relies on Linux’s Netfilter for NAT. Or any other VPN server implementations, we believe our attack applies to any

Yet tested other versions of OpenVPN, any version of Wireguard or strongSwan, Version information is at the bottom of this note. Hijack TCP connections of the victim, even when that connection is tunneled Server-side attack against OpenVPN to inject DNS responses, reset, or even TheĬ2mitm variation of the attack can be combined with a recently disclosed, The OpenVPN server to which both the attacker and victim are connected. Implications for applications, such as OpenVPN, that rely on Netfilter for NAT.Ī malicious OpenVPN client can use port shadowing to deanonymize victim machinesĬonnected to the same OpenVPN server or escalate privileges from an OpenVPNĬlient to a man-in-the-middle (c2mitm) between another client (the victim) and

State (or any particular state) on the NAT creates ambiguity with a machine With the Linux socket infrastructure to determine whether a port in a listening Port shadowing’s root cause originates from Netfilter’s lack of coordination The remainder of this disclosure uses the term “port shadow(ing)” Request for comments (rfc768, rfc793, rfc4787, rfc5382, rfc7857, or any of their This shadowing behavior is not specified in any relevant Received packets intended for the NAT’s own listening port to a host behind the Port as an application listening on the same port as the NAT (i.e., the NAT isĪcting both as a NAT-router and a server), then Netfilter translates and routes Is designed in such a way that if a machine behind the NAT uses the same source
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Hooks that are called at various points in the networking code to execute,Į.g., user-defined firewall rules and NAT code. Mechanisms and network address translation (NAT). Within the Linux kernel that implements stateless and stateful firewall OpenVPN’s use of Netfilter makes it susceptible to several attacks that canĬause denial-of-service, deanonymization of clients, or redirection of a victimĬlient connection to an attacker controlled server.
