ensure that your external website(s)are only listening on external ip addresses"
I believe you mean that the website host (Apache/nginx) listen only on localhost, and NOT on external at all. Otherwise, shodan will find it, and your code will leak the IP.
-----Original Message----- From: tor-onions tor-onions-bounces@lists.torproject.org On Behalf Of J. S. Evans Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 9:40 AM To: tor-onions@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-onions] Privacy Audits for Onion Services
Hi Tom,
Thanks for the input!
On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 17:51 +0200, Tom Ritter wrote:
That's an excellent question. I think we should make a wiki page on trac about this, if we don't have one already...
Once there is a page, I would love to volunteer to add input.
Off the top of my head, I'd suggest the following (specific to HTTP(S) servers):
- Ensure your clock is correct and is corrected automatically once or
twice a day to reduce time skews
- If your server is exposed to the internet, ensure that one cannot
hit your onionsite by specifying it in the host header on the clearnet. Ensure the onionsite is only listening on the internal IP.
- Similarly, ensure that your external website(s)are only listening on
external ip addresses, and one cannot hit them over the onionsite by specifying them in the Host header
- Best case: run your service on a machine that _has_ no external IP
address and only internal IP addresses
I usually run onion services on vms in containers. The VM has an internal 192.168... ip and no external (to the internet) facing IP. All real tcp ports are closed. Port 80 is listening on the web server but not actually open on any firewall.
- Check your SSL configuration and ensure your onionsite isnt sending
a cert for external websites
Until let's encrypt starts providing certs for .onion sites, I will not run https because it's redundant.
- Don't run a relay and a hidden service on the same tor instance
Then there are a ton of advice items for individual languages/frameworks. For example for PHP, don't expose phpinfo() or $_SERVER. Don't expose error messages.
Duly noted. It would be great to have a list of suggestions about for different languages on the wiki.
There is a class of web attack called 'SSRF' or Server Side Request Forgery. The toehold of this attack is that you can induce the _server_ to perform a connection. This could be through a DNS lookup, a XML DTD fetch, or other types of vulnerabilities. If an attacker can do this on your onionsite, they can trigger you to connect to their server and learn your server address. You can mitigate this by strict egress firewalling.
I know how to do this with Docker. I could research this and write up a guide for some of the more well known firewall apps. firewalld, ufw, plain iptables, etc.
-tom
On 30 August 2018 at 10:33, Jason S. Evans < jason.s.evans@protonmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
How can I best audit an onion service to make sure that my IP can not easily be compromised? Is there a list of things to do to try to hack my own site to try to find the IP?
Thanks! Jason
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