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Fernando Gont
IPv6 Security Tools
UK IPv6 Council Security Workshop
London, UK. July 12, 2017
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About...
● Security Researcher and Consultant at SI6 Networks
● Published 30 IETF RFCs (15+ on IPv6)
● Contributor to TechTarget.com on IPv6
● http://www.techtarget.com/contributor/Fernando-Gont
● Author of the SI6 Networks' IPv6 toolkit
● https://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6toolkit
● IPv6 Hackers Mailing List admin
● More information at: https://www.gont.com.ar
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IPv6 tools
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THC-IPv6 Toolkit: Introduction
● First and only IPv6 attack toolkit for many years
● Easy to use
● Only minimal IPv6 knowledge required
● Features:
● Only runs on Linux with Ethernet
● Free software
● Available at: http://www.thc.org/thc-ipv6
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● Brief history:
● Originally produced as part of a governmental project on IPv6 security
● Maintenance and extension taken over by SI6 Networks
● Goals:
● Security assessment and trouble-shooting of IPv6 networks and implementations
● Clean, portable, and secure code
● Good documentation
SI6 Networks' IPv6 Toolkit
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● Supported OSes:
● Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and Mac OS
● License:
● GPL (free software)
● Home:
● https://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6toolkit
● Collaborative development:
● https://www.github.com/fgont/ipv6toolkit.git
SI6 Networks' IPv6 Toolkit (II)
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IDEAS TOOLS ipv6 NETWORK
“an interface between your ideas and an IPv6 network”
SI6 Networks' IPv6 Toolkit: Philosophy
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IPv6 AddressingAddress Scanning
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Introduction
● Address scanning in IPv4 is typically “brute force”
● search space is so small we can get away with such a loosy job!
● Bruteforce approach simply unfeasible for IPv6
● search space would be too big (264 addresses)
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Approaching IPv6 address scanning
● Two (totally-different) problem areas:
● Local-network scans
● Remote-network scans
● Local-network scans rather easy
● Remote-network scans more challenging
● It is key to understant the IPv6 Addressing Architeture
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IPv6 addressingImplications on address scanning of local networks
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Overview
● Leverage IPv6 all-nodes link-local multicast address
● Employ multiple probe types:
● Normal multicasted ICMPv6 echo requests (don't work for Windows)
● Unrecognized options of type 10xxxxxx
● Combine learned IIDs with known prefixes to learn all addresses
● Example:
# scan6 -i eth0 -L
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IPv6 AddressingImplications on address scanning of remote
networks
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IPv6 host scanning attacks
“Thanks to the increased IPv6 address space, IPv6 host scanning attacks are unfeasible. Scanning a /64
would take 500.000.000 years”
– Urban legend
Is the search space for a /64 really264 addresses?
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Our experiment
● Find “a considerable number of IPv6 nodes” for address analysis:
● Alexa Top-1M sites + perl script + dig
● World IPv6 Launch Day site + perl script + dig
● For each domain:
● AAAA records
● NS records -> AAAA records
● MX records -> AAAA records
● What did we find?
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IPv6 address distribution for the web
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IPv6 address distribution for mail servers
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IPv6 address distribution for the DNS
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Client addresses
● Caveats:
● Graphic illustrates IID types used for outgoing connections.
● No data about IID types used for stable addresses when RFC4941 is employed.
Source: <http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2013/05/ipv6-address-analysis-privacy-transition-out>
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IPv6 address patterns
● MAC-address based
● e.g.: 2001:db8::fad1:22ff:fec0:fb44
● Embed-IPv4:
● 2000:db8::192.168.0.1 <- Embedded in 32 bits
● 2000:db8::192:168:0:1 <- Embedded in 64 bits
● Embed-port:
● 2001:db8::1:80 <- n:port
● 2001:db8::80:1 <- port:n
● Low-byte addresses:
● 2001:db8::n1:n2 <- where n1 is typically greater than n2
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Some take-aways from our study
● Server addresses clearly do follow patterns
● The majority of addresses follow patterns with a small search space
● Passive measurements on client addresses are of little use
● Due to IPv6 temporary addresses (RFC4941)
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IPv6 address scanning
● scan6 can target specific address patterns
● “What if I'm lazy enough to 'set' an appropriate address pattern?”
● scan6 infers the address pattern for you!
● Example:
# scan6 -d DOMAIN/64 -v
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Conclusions about scanning attacks
● IPv6 address scanning attacks are feasible, but typically harder than in IPv4
● They require more “intelligence” on the side of the attacker
● It is possible to make them infeasible
● Just do not employ addresses that follow patterns
● RFC7217 and RFC8064 fix that for SLAAC
● It is likely that many other scanning strategies/techniques will be explored (more on this later)
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IPv6 Extension HeadersReconnaissance and Troubleshooting
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path6: An EH-enabled traceroute
● How far do your IPv6 EH-enabled packets get?
● No existing traceroute tool supported IPv6 extension headers
● Hence we produced our path6 tool
● Supports IPv6 Extension Headers
● Can employ TCP, UDP, or ICMPv6 probes
● It's faster ;-)
● Example:
# path6 -u 100 -d fc00:1::1
Dst Opt Hdr
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path6: An EH-enabled traceroute (II)
● Example of traceroute with 8-byte DOH:
# path6 -d DEST -u 8 -p icmp
● Example of traceroute with fragmentation:
# path6 -d DEST -p icmp -P 500 -y 256
● Example of traceroute with TCP payload:
# path6 -d DEST -p tcp -a 80
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blackhole6: Finding IPv6 blackholes
● How it works?
● path6 without EHs + path6 with EHs + a little bit of magic
fgont@satellite:~$ sudo blackhole6 www.google.com do8SI6 Networks IPv6 Toolkit v2.0blackhole6: A tool to find IPv6 blackholesTracing www.google.com (2607:f8b0:400b:807::1012)...
Dst. IPv6 address: 2607:f8b0:400b:807::1012 (AS15169 - GOOGLE - Google Inc.,US)Last node (no EHs): 2607:f8b0:400b:807::1012 (AS15169 - GOOGLE - Google Inc.,US) (13 hop(s))Last node (DO 8): 2001:5a0:12:100::72 (AS6453 - AS6453 - TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC,US) (7 hop(s))Dropping node: 2001:4860:1:1:0:1935:0:75 (AS15169 - GOOGLE - Google Inc.,US || AS15169 - GOOGLE - Google Inc.,US)
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IPv6 Extension HeadersIn The Real World
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DO8
HBH8
FH512
Webservers Mailservers Nameservers
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Packet Drop rate for Alexa's Top 1M sites
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DO8
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Drops by diff AS for Alexa's Top 1M sites
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So... what does this all mean?
● Good luck with getting IPv6 EHs working in the Internet!
● They are widely dropped
● IPv6 EHs “not that cool” for evasion, either
● Chances are that you will not even hit your target
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Neighbor Discovery for IPv6
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Neighbor Discovery for IPv6Address Resolution
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Address Resolution in IPv6
● Employs ICMPv6 Neighbor Solicitation and Neighbor Advertisement
● It (roughly) works as follows:
● Host A sends a NS: Who has IPv6 address fc01::1?
● Host B responds with a NA: I have IPv6 address, and the corresponding MAC address is 06:09:12:cf:db:55.
● Host A caches the received information in a “Neighbor Cache” for some period of time (this is similar to IPv4’s ARP cache)
● Host A can now send packets to Host B
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Neighbor Discovery for IPv6Address Resolution Attacks
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“Man in the Middle” or Denial of Service
● They are the IPv6 version of IPv4’s ARP cache poisoning
● Without proper authentication mechanisms in place, its trivial for an attacker to forge Neighbor Discovery messages
● Attack:
● Send forged Neighbor Advertisement, with a forged target link-layer address option
● If the “Target Link-layer address” corresponds to a non-existing node, traffic is dropped, resulting in a DoS.
● If the “Target Link-layer address” is that of the attacker, he can perform a “man in the middle” attack.
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Performing the attack with the na6 tool
● Run the tool as:
# na6 –i IFACE –t VICTIMADDR –E MACADDR –o -c -L
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Neighbor Discovery for IPv6Address Resolution Attacks – Countermeasures
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Possible mitigations for ND attacks
● Do you mitigate similar vulnerabilities for IPv4?
● Possible mitigations for IPv6:
● SAVI / ND snooping
● Monitor Neighbor Discovery traffic (e.g., with NDPMon)
● Restrict access to the local network
● Use static entries in the Neighbor Cache
● Deploy SEND (SEcure Neighbor Discovery)
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Neighbor Discovery for IPv6Stateless Address Auto-configuration (SLAAC)
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Brief overview
● Two auto-configuration mechanisms in IPv6:
● Stateless Address Auto-Configuration (SLAAC)
– Based on ICMPv6 messages
● DHCPv6
– Based on UDP packets
● SLAAC is mandatory, while DHCPv6 is optional
● Basic operation of SLAAC:
● Host solicit configuration information by sending Router Solicitation messages
● Routers convey that information in Router Advertisement messages:
– Auto-configuration prefixes
– Routes
– Network parameters
– etc.
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SLAAC: Step by step
● It works (roughly) as follows:
1. The host configures a link-local address
2. It checks that the address is unique – i.e., it performs Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for that address
● Sends a NS, and waits for any answers
3. The host sends a Router Solicitation message
4. When a Router Advertisement is received, it configures a “tentative” IPv6 address
5. It checks that the address is unique – i.e., it performs Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for that address
● Sends a NS, and waits for any answers
6. If the address is unique, it typically becomes a “preferred” address
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Address Autoconfiguration flowchart
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Neighbor Discovery for IPv6SLAAC attacks
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Exploit DAD for DoS attacks
● Listen to NS messages with the Source Address set to the IPv6 “unspecified” address (::)
● Respond to such messages with a Neighbor Advertisement message
● As a result, the address will be considered non-unique, and DAD will fail
● The host will not be able to use that “tentative” address
● Perform this attack with the na6 tool as follows:
# na6 -i IFACE -b ::/128 -L -vv
Or possibly:
# na6 -i em0 -b ::/128 -B VICTIMMAC -L -vv
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Disable an Existing Router
● Forge a Router Advertisement message that impersonates the local router
● Set the “Router Lifetime” to 0 (or some other small value)
● As a result, the victim host will remove the router from the “default routers list”
● Perform this attack with the ra6 tool:
# ra6 -i IFACE -s ROUTERADDR -d TARGETADDR -t 0 -l
1 –v
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Possible mitigations for SLAAC attacks
● Do you mitigate similar attacks for the IPv4 case?
● Possible mitigations:
● Deploy Router Advertisement Guard (RA-Guard) -- beware of RFC7113 attacks!
● Monitor Neighbor Discovery traffic (e.g., with NDPMon)
● Restrict access to the local network
● Deploy SEND (SEcure Neighbor Discovery)
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Upper-layer attacks
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Brief Overview
● IPv6 is just a network-layer protocol
● Everything above the network layer is essentially the same
● Transport-layer attacks
● Application layer attacks
● etc,
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tcp6: TCP-based attacks
● The tcp6 tool can send arbitrary TCP/IPv6 packets
● It can also trigger virtually any TCP state at a target system
● Example: SYN-flood attack
# tcp6 -s SRCPRF -d TARGET -a DSTPORT -X S -F
100 -l -z 1 -v
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Mitigations for upper-layer attacks
● Usually the same as in the IPv4 case
● Caveat: Mitigations on a per-IPv6-prefix basis (rather than (per-address)
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DNS support for IPv6
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DNS for Network Reconnaissance
● Most of this ground is well-known from the IPv4-world:
● DNS zone transfers
● DNS bruteforcing
● etc.
● DNS reverse-mappings particularly useful for “address scanning”
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IPv6 DNS reverse mappings
● Technique:
● Given a zone X.ip6.arpa., try the labels [0-f].X.ip6.arpa.
● If an NXDOMAIN is received, that part of the “tree” should be ignored
● Otherwise, if NOERROR is received, “walk” that part of the tree
● Example (using dnsrevenum6 from THC-IPv6):
$ dnsrevenum6 DNSSERVER IPV6PREFIX
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Mitigating DNS reverse mappings scans
● Reverse mappings only actually required for mail servers
● For the general case:
● Do not configure reverse mappings, or,
● Wildcard reverse mappings
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Some conclusions
● Many IPv4 vulnerabilities have been re-implemented in IPv6
● We just didn't learn the lesson from IPv4, or,
● Different people working on IPv6 than working on IPv4, or,
● The specs could make implementation more straightforward, or,
● All of the above? :-)
● Still quite some work to be done in IPv6 security
● There is always room for improvements
● We need IPv6, and should work to improve it
● There's no question that you should deploy IPv6
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Questions?
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Thank you's
● Veronika McKillop
● Tim Chown
● Andy Butcher
● UK IPv6 Council
● Axians
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Thanks!
Fernando Gont
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