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ssh_brute: Detect open dropbear server

Jasper-Ben opened this issue · comments

Issue

Currently, the brute modules (at least ssh) do not scan for empty passwords.

Setup

Container running an open SSH server (aka, user=root, password="") in the same network as the Nettacker container.
I can successfully connect to the SSH server from inside the Nettacker container using ssh root@<ip> without password prompt.

Expected behavior

Nettacker should detect a passwordless SSH server.

Actual behaviour

  1. By default, Nettacker does not attempt to connect without password.
  2. Running python3 nettacker.py -v -i <ip> -m ssh_brute -u "root" -p "" will fall back to default password list (since passwords is empty)
  3. Creating a passwordlist file only containing a newline and running python3 nettacker.py -v -i <ip> -m ssh_brute -u "root" --passwords-list=passwords.txt will use an empty password, but will still fail to detect the open SSH server:
{"timeout": 3.0, "host": "172.23.0.3", "ports": "22", "usernames": "root", "passwords": "", "method": "ssh_brute_force", "response": {"condition_type": "or", "conditions_results": []}}
[2023-07-09 12:24:45][+] process-1|ssh_brute|172.23.0.3| finished module thread number 1 from 1
+----------------------------+------------+-------------+------+----------+
|            date            |   target   | module_name | port |   logs   |
+============================+============+=============+======+==========+
| 2023-07-09 12:24:44.491141 | 172.23.0.3 | port_scan   | 22   | Detected |
+----------------------------+------------+-------------+------+----------+
| 2023-07-09 12:24:44.507036 | 172.23.0.3 | port_scan   | 80   | Detected |
+----------------------------+------------+-------------+------+----------+

Suggested solution

Nettacker should, regardless of provided passwords, always attempt to connect without providing a password.

Nettacker Version

owasp/nettacker:0.3.1 container image