[NT] Kerio WinRoute Firewall Account Information Leak

From: SecuriTeam (support_at_securiteam.com)
Date: 11/19/03

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      Kerio WinRoute Firewall Account Information Leak
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    SUMMARY

     <http://www.kerio.com> WinRoute is "most popular SOHO software
    firewall/router/Proxy solution for Windows platform". During
    troubleshooting of WinRoute a security related problem was discovered
    allowing remote websites to obtain clear text credentials
    (username:password) of WinRoute user.

    DETAILS

    Vulnerable systems:
     * Kerio WinRoute Firewall version 5.10

    WinRoute has extremely weak functionality as a proxy server. It doesn't
    rebuild request sent by browser. Instead, it only changes Proxy- related
    header by substituting fist character to X (So, for example,
    Proxy-Connection header becomes Xroxy-Connection: in outgoing request). It
    leads to few troubles. First, it leaks HTTP established connections. Every
    file (for example .gif, html, and jpg) from web server requires separate
    connection resulting in performance degradation. But, of cause, security
    related problem is in handling Proxy-Authorization: header sent by
    browser. Browser sends this header with every request in a case proxy
    server requires authentication. This header contains base64-encoded
    username and password of proxy user in clear text (NTLM and Kerberos
    probably is not supported by WinRoute). If WinRoute uses windows
    authentication this credentials contain domain account information.

    As a result, any web server visited by WinRoute user can track his proxy
    username and password by Xroxy-Authorization: header (X because first
    character is changed).

    For example:
     Xroxy-Authorization: Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0aW5n (test:testing).

    Workaround:
    Disable proxy authentication.

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    The information has been provided by Alexander Antipov and 3APA3A.

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