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Sandwichs-del avatar Sandwichs-del commented on July 26, 2024

For example, https://github.com/bakwc/PySyncObj does anti-replay by issuing a sendRandKey to the connection partner at the beginning of a connection. The parther is then required to provide this sendRandKey in every message, thwarting session replay attacks.

This is very elegant, but unfortunately they missed/ignored something: An attacker in the position to transparently proxy the TCP streams can still replay/reorder/drop messages.

If they were able to enforce monotonicity of timestamps, this would limit the attackers only to replaying/reordering messages carrying the same timestamp (and dropping, of course)


Another side-effect of (ab)using a token-protection scheme like that is that messages must be handled very carefully before they are authenticated. In this case PySyncObj did not do too good because it uses a length || message data format, allowing completely unauthenticated attackers to occupy up to 2 GiB of system memory by "incomplete message" per one attacker connection.

Details how I tried to mitigate the worst of it can be found here: bakwc/PySyncObj#174

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bakwc avatar bakwc commented on July 26, 2024

@Sandwichs-del Probably this one can be closed?

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Sandwichs-del avatar Sandwichs-del commented on July 26, 2024

This one is for fernet cipher. Its readme still misses appropriate warnings

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