ssh-mitm VS super-auto-pets

I wanted to share some insights into a security concern that echoes the Terrapin-Attack scenario, highlighting a similar vulnerability that has been observed in other tools.

Recently, I came across a Pull Request on GitHub for the SSH-MITM tool, which sheds light on a critical aspect of SSH protocol security, specifically regarding RFC 4253 during the KEXINIT process. The Pull Request, available at GitHub https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm/pull/163, describes the necessity of discarding certain packages during the KEXINIT phase to prevent issues with intercepted clients.

Moreover, a look into the GitHub Blame for SSH-MITM reveals that these crucial changes in the KEXINIT step were integrated into SSH-MITM about 1-2 years ago. You can see the specific changes at this link: https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm/blame/4fc3ef418847c35d17d0c427e2701b33a03c323c/sshmitm/workarounds/transport.py#L178-L188

An important note to add is that this information suggests that a similar form of attack, akin to the Terrapin-Attack, could potentially have been exploited for the last two years. This raises significant concerns about the historical vulnerability of systems to such attack techniques and emphasizes the importance of retroactive security analysis in addition to ongoing vigilance.

There is now an issue ticket in ssh-mitm to discuss the similarities between ssh-mitm and terrapin attack: https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm/issues/165

During some audits, it's likely that you find some ssh public keys laying around on some servers.

If you want to verify if this key is known by other services, but you don't have access to those services, this task might be hard.

SSH-MITM has an additional command, which allows to check if a public ssh key is known by GitHub, GitLab, and other code hosters. It's not limited to GitHub and other major platforms and even works with each service, which is accessible over SSH.

First you must install SSH-MITM. It's recommended to use the AppImage, because this works out of the box on most Linux machines.

$ wget https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm/releases/latest/download/ssh-mitm-x86_64.AppImage

SSH-MITM is a tool to audit ssh sessions and protocols, which uses SSH as the transport protocol: https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm

you can find the project on github: https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm

You should check the Revisionhistory of the Readme file first.. https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm/commit/564028af25c395528446fbb679c7392469d59bfd

The “customized wording” you’re seeing is “The LGPL”. It’s a different license from the GPL.

The history on the repo shows that the original license was GPL (June 2020), the author changed the license to LGPL (December 2022), and now they’re changing it to GPL again. https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm/commits/master/LICENSE

I recently used it to modify the response from the replay server for an autobattler game, to let me watch arbitrary replays for theory-crafting and just general fun. The game is called Super Auto Pets, here's the code with the mitmproxy extension: https://github.com/bspammer/super-auto-pets

on this octopus killer video they left this comment and linked to a github page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVZvjO2JlV4 I'm intercepting the replay request and injecting my own, code is here https://github.com/bspammer/super-auto-pets although there do seem to be some bugs for example: in this video level 3 pufferfish do not do 6 damage for some reason in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5IAQfiPBo4