The Terrapin Vulnerability Scanner is a small utility program written in Go, which can be used to determine the vulnerability of an SSH client or server against the Terrapin Attack. The vulnerability scanner requires a single connection with the peer to gather all supported algorithms. However, it does not perform a fully fledged SSH key exchange, will never attempt authentication on a server, and does not perform the attack in practice. Instead, vulnerability is determined by checking the supported algorithms and support for known countermeasures (strict key exchange). This may falsely claim vulnerability in case the peer supports countermeasures unknown to this tool.
For convience, we are providing pre-compiled binaries for all major desktop platforms. These can be found on the Release page.
However, we understand that you might prefer building tools, that connect to your SSH server, yourself. To do this, ensure that you have at least Go v1.21 installed. To compile and install the Terrapin Vulnerability Scanner Go package, run the command below.
go install github.com/RUB-NDS/Terrapin-Scanner@latest
This will download, compile, and install the Go package for your local system. The compiled binary will become available at $GOBIN/Terrapin-Scanner. If the GOBIN enviroment variable is not set, Go will default to using $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin, depending on whether the $GOPATH enviroment variable is set.
# Scan the SSH server available at localhost port 2222
./Terrapin-Scanner --connect localhost:2222
# If no port is specified, the tool will default to port 22 instead
./Terrapin-Scanner --connect localhost
# To scan an SSH client, specify the listen command instead
# After running the command, you will need to connect with your SSH client to port 2222
./Terrapin-Scanner --listen 0.0.0.0:2222
# When binding to localhost, you can omit the interface address
# The following command will listen for incoming connections on 127.0.0.1:2222
./Terrapin-Scanner --listen 2222