Researchers at the Leviathan Security Group have publicized an exploit that can force a VPN user to transmit unencrypted internet traffic outside of the VPN tunnel, exposing...
Which is ironically one of the primary reasons you’d want to use a VPN. Public WiFi? VPN, to prevent MITM attacks from a spoofed router. Work WiFi on your personal device? VPN, to prevent your employer from spying on your browsing habits during your break time.
It is all interesting, but most core network services are jointed at the hip. If you can tamper with one service, you can usually fuck with all of them. Also, DHCP is much more than “gimmie an IP address”. It’s kinda always been a way to configure almost anything at layer 3 on a host OS.
Calling this an exploit is a bit of a stretch and why they focused on VPN bypass is kind of ‘meh’ compared to all the rest of the things you could do If you control the routing tables on a client. Hell, if you control DHCP, you control client DNS as well, so that could be fun to abuse too.
This kind of report is almost like saying ‘rm -rf’ is an exploit after you give someone root access.
Edit: This is a coffee-shop’ish type of attack. I am aware of that.
All you need to do is compromise a network and setup and authoritative DCHP server. What could go wrong?
Unless the network owner themselves are malicious.
The only time actually use a VPN is when I don’t completely trust the network owner…
Which is ironically one of the primary reasons you’d want to use a VPN. Public WiFi? VPN, to prevent MITM attacks from a spoofed router. Work WiFi on your personal device? VPN, to prevent your employer from spying on your browsing habits during your break time.
I just think its interesting how seemingly unrelated systems can interact in ways that aren’t expected
It is all interesting, but most core network services are jointed at the hip. If you can tamper with one service, you can usually fuck with all of them. Also, DHCP is much more than “gimmie an IP address”. It’s kinda always been a way to configure almost anything at layer 3 on a host OS.
Calling this an exploit is a bit of a stretch and why they focused on VPN bypass is kind of ‘meh’ compared to all the rest of the things you could do If you control the routing tables on a client. Hell, if you control DHCP, you control client DNS as well, so that could be fun to abuse too.
This kind of report is almost like saying ‘rm -rf’ is an exploit after you give someone root access.
Edit: This is a coffee-shop’ish type of attack. I am aware of that.
How is dhcp unrelated to vpns lol