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New White Paper: DTLS “ClientHello” Race Conditions in WebRTC Implementations
Published on Oct 15, 2024 in denial of service, freeswitch, webrtc security, asterisk
We’re excited to announce the release of our latest white paper, “DTLS ‘ClientHello’ Race Conditions in WebRTC Implementations”. This comprehensive study delves into a critical vulnerability affecting various WebRTC implementations, with potential implications for real-time communication security. Our research team at Enable Security conducted extensive testing on both open-source and proprietary WebRTC implementations, focusing on media servers and popular communication platforms. The study aimed to identify vulnerabilities related to the processing of DTLS ClientHello messages in WebRTC sessions.…
TADSummit Innovators Podcast reviews the Last 6 Months of RTC Security Trends with Sandro Gauci
Published on Jul 26, 2024 in voip security, webrtc security
This week, I had the pleasure of joining Alan Quayle on the TADSummit Innovators Podcast to review the last six months of VoIP and WebRTC security news. We delved into some of the most intriguing trends emerging in the RTC security space. We covered the following RTC security trends for 2024 so far: Increasing focus on WebRTC vulnerabilities and security Growing concern over VoIP and conferencing platform security Emerging threats from AI and machine learning in audio manipulation Growing importance of resilience in communication systems SMS/Voice 2FA is hugely problematic Here are the top 10 insights that emerged from our discussion:…
A Novel DoS Vulnerability affecting WebRTC Media Servers
Published on Jun 25, 2024 in denial of service, freeswitch, webrtc security, asterisk
Executive summary (TL;DR) A critical denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been identified in media servers that process WebRTC’s DTLS-SRTP, specifically in their handling of ClientHello messages. This vulnerability arises from a race condition between ICE and DTLS traffic and can be exploited to disrupt media sessions, compromising the availability of real-time communication services. Mitigations include filtering packets based on ICE-validated IP and port combinations. The article also indicates safe testing methods and strategies for detecting the attack.…
OpenSIPS Security Audit Report is fully disclosed and out there
Published on Mar 17, 2023 in sip security, sipvicious pro, sip security testing, security tools, opensips, kamailio, fuzzing, denial of service, research
It’s almost a year since the OpenSIPS project published a minimized version of our security audit report from 2022. Now, the full version has been published, with all the information intact on how to reproduce the vulnerabilities and extra details in an 80+ page report. The OpenSIPS security audit report can be found here. What is the OpenSIPS security audit? OpenSIPS is a SIP server that often has a critical security function within an IP communications system.…
SIPVicious PRO incremental update - and Gitlab CI/CD examples
Published on Mar 7, 2023 in sip security, sipvicious pro, sip security testing, sipvicious releases, devops, security tools
We just pushed out a new SIPVicious PRO update to our subscribing members! This version does not include any new major features. Instead, it fixes various bugs and brings missing but necessary features to various SIPVicious PRO tools. We have the following highlights in this update: Documentation now includes realistic Gitlab CI/CD examples The RTP fuzzer in the experimental version now supports SRTP Support for new SIP DoS flood request methods The RTP inject tool can now specify the RTP’s SSRC and payload ID The SIP password cracking tool now supports closing the connection upon each attempt The SIP ping utility supports INVITE For the boring details, including a list of bug fixes, do read the release notes for v6.…
Kamailio’s exec module considered harmful
Executive summary (TL;DR) The combination of pseudo-variables and Kamailio’s exec can be risky and may result in code injection. By using special SIP headers and environment variables, it becomes effortless to exploit a vulnerable configuration. We have created a Docker environment to assist readers in reproducing this vulnerability and testing solutions. Protection is tricky and the official documentation may have previously misled developers - we aim to fix that by updating the module’s official documentation.…
How to perform a DDoS attack simulation
Published on Nov 29, 2022
TL;DR A DDoS simulation is a practical exercise that various organisations are capable of doing. Understand the reasons why you would want to do this, then combine custom with off-the-shelf attack tools. Follow the best practices, apply solutions and mitigation; and you can finally answer: what if we got attacked? Introduction In this post, we give an overview of how you too can perform your own distributed denial of service (DDoS) simulation exercises.…
RTCSec newsletter is one year old!
Published on Oct 26, 2022
Roughly a year ago, we sent out the first RTCSec newsletter and have been doing so every month. Each time, we have covered more and more of our favourite topics, VoIP and WebRTC security. And now, it has become our primary way of keep up to date with what is happening, and our most regular publication too. If you are not yet subscribed, do so at https://www.enablesecurity.com/subscribe/. The next one is out in a few days!…
SIPVicious PRO experimental now supports STIR/SHAKEN and 5 new tools
Published on Jul 6, 2022 in sip security, sipvicious pro, sip security testing, sipvicious releases
We just made two builds available to our SIPVicious PRO members. One is called the stable build, while the other is the experimental build. The v6.0.0-beta.5 stable build includes a large number of fixes, much better (or sane) defaults and full coverage of SRTP throughout the toolset. The experimental version is where the excitement is. Our members now have access to 5 new tools that we find useful in our work:…
We’re hiring a pentester / security researcher
Published on May 4, 2022
Do you know anyone who would like to join the team at Enable Security as a pentester / security researcher? We have a remote open position for the right person. We are mainly looking for someone full-time but persons interested in joining us part-time should also apply. More details can be found at the actual hiring page.…