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Barracuda Appliances Have Exploitable Holes, Fixed By Firmware Updates
Orome1 writes "Barracuda Networks has released firmware updates that remove SSH backdoors in a number of their products and resolve a vulnerability in Barracuda SSL VPN that allows attackers to bypass access restrictions to download potentially insecure files, set new admins passwords, or even shut down the device. The backdoor accounts are present on in all available versions of Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall, Web Filter, Message Archiver, Web Application Firewall, Link Balancer, Load Balancer, and SSL VPN appliances." Here's Barracuda's tech note about the exploitable holes.
SSH backdoors into security appliances? Really?
Barracuda says they need the accounts. They will remain after the update.
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory - 20130124-0
title: Critical SSH Backdoor in multiple Barracuda Networks Products
vulnerable products: Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall
Barracuda Web Filter
Barracuda Message Archiver
Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Barracuda Link Balancer
Barracuda Load Balancer
Barracuda SSL VPN
(all including their respective virtual "Vx" versions)
vulnerable version: all versions Security Definition 2.0.5
fixed version: Security Definition 2.0.5
impact: Critical
homepage: https://www.barracudanetworks.com/
found: 2012-11-20
by: S. Viehbck
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab
https://www.sec-consult.com
So the tech note mentions that this is only accessible from a small subset of ips...WHAT IPS!!!!!!
At least it doesn't sound like a zero day so we have time to get it patched. Since we block the management ips from our firewall it sounds like this would only effect attacks from within your network.
Security appliances are a joke. Overpriced slabs sold by slimy salesmen to clueless PHBs to offer "security" in a box.
Security doesn't come in a box. It comes with process, documentation, and vigilance. Things alien to incompetent management.
It's no surprise that these digital snake oil machines are riddled with security holes themselves.
Anyway, these things are mostly obsolete. Why spend a fortune when your infrastructure is all VMs hosted across multiple data centers in many distinct geographic locations.
You still host your own servers? Why?
Live it, love it, use it (oh and it has commercial support too so it's not just a toy). http://openvpn.net/
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
"The backdoor accounts are present on in all available versions of Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall, Web Filter, Message Archiver, Web Application Firewall, Link Balancer, Load Balancer, and SSL VPN appliances."
That cannot have happened by accident. Barracuda Networks should be charged with material support of terrorism for this.
you said 'exploitable holes'.
Firmware updates = downtime. Required downtime rather than optional... not good.
They also seem to have a security hole that keeps suggesting that I like Barracuda Networks on Facebook.
Most of these will probably auto-update the security defs with no downtime required (and they probably did it yesterday). Also, this is mostly an internal-threat only as nobody with common sense would publish SSH publicly. Most people put this in a DMZ and limit inbound traffic, so really, anyone following good security practice would ONLY be affected by rouge admins. Big whoop...what isn't affected by rouge admins?
You poor Americans...
Those damn prepositions are so confusing. Just put all the ones you can think of in the sentence, one of them is bound to be right!
Well known & popular product ships with security issues- company fixes said issues. Srsly... /.????
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.....BARRACUDA!!!! :oP
"My immediate reaction is "WTF? What kind of moron doesn't make things 64-bit safe to begin with?" Linus
They jump out & bite you!
This company tried to charge my friend's employer for over a year of time during which the product wasn't being used when they tried to reactivate it after it had been in a storage closet for that time.
They wouldn't budge, either, and my friends company had to find an alternate solution.
So yeah, not doing business with them anytime soon.
You had that ready, didn't you?
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Yep, we have.
Our all major firewalls (srx3600's, isg2000's, asa5520's, ...) where work are built redundant, just few tiny lab firewalls (ssg5's, asa5505's) are not. Also the core routers & switches 65k's down to distribution level are redundant as are most of access switches uplinks. Not exactly cheap, but makes maintaining the network so much easier and more failure tolerant. We have 12 large switches, all with redundant supervisors both redundant core devices in campus network, about 80 distributions switches, 685 access switches and 400 about ap's, multiple wlc redunant wlc's and redundant nms, redundant firewall etc. management system. The same goes with the storage side SAN, FCOE, server virtualisation platforms, backup systems, content switches, log management systems etc. All of them built redundant.
Just a hint, this is a mid size government funded university with about 20k students and 2500 staff, not a high profit enterprise.
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You lying so low in the weeds
I bet you gonna ambush me
You'd have me down on my knees
Now wouldn't you, Barracuda?
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
This was done on purpose so Barracuda would always have access to the box. This was not done by request of the U.S. government. This was a Barracuda "control" mechanism and its good that they were called out on this and now should pay. Oh and Palo Alto must be loving this, Barracuda has a real hard on to beat them for some reason.
When you get a company run by a bunch of teenage college dropouts who put Linux on commodity hardware, shipped with stock kernels and a bunch of poorly-written scripts, and a firewall that's based on a 3 year old fork of IPCop.... and call it an "enterprise security appliance."
"Everything we see has some hidden message. A lot of awful messages are coming in under the radar - subliminal consumer messages, all kinds of politically incorrect messages..." - Harold Ramis
"RFID in School Shirts must be trial run"
The trial runs began a LONG time ago!
We're way past that process.
Now we're in the portion of the game where they will try and BRAINWASH us into accepting these things because not everyone BROADCASTS themselves on and offline, so RFID tracking will NEED to be EVERYWHERE, eventually.
RFID is employed in MANY areas of society. RFID is used to TRACK their livestock (humans) in:
* 1. A lot of BANK's ATM & DEBIT cards (easily cloned and tracked)
* 2. Subway, rail, bus, other mass transit passes (all of your daily
activities, where you go, are being recorded in many ways)
* 3. A lot of RETAIL stores' goods
* 4. Corporate slaves (in badges, tags, etc)
and many more ways!
Search the web about RFID and look at the pictures of various RFID devices, they're not all the same in form or function! When you see how tiny some of them are, you'll be amazed! Search for GPS tracking and devices, too along with the more obscured:
- FM Fingerprinting &
- Writeprint
- Stylometry
tracking methods! Let's not forget the LIQUIDS at their disposal which can be sprayed on you and/or your devices/clothing and TRACKED, similar to STASI methods of tracking their livestock (humans).
Visit David Icke's and Prison Planet's discussion forums and VC's discussion forums and READ the threads about RFID and electronic tagging, PARTICIPATE in discussions. SHARE what you know with others!
These TRACKING technologies, on and off the net are being THROWN at us by the MEDIA, just as cigarettes and alcohol have and continue to be, though the former less than they used to. The effort to get you to join FACEBOOK and TWITTER, for example, is EVERYWHERE.
Maybe, you think, you'll join FACEBOOK or TWITTER with an innocent reason, in part perhaps because your family, friends, business parters, college ties want or need you. Then it'll start with one photo of yourself or you in a group, then another, then another, and pretty soon you are telling STRANGERS as far away as NIGERIA with scammers reading and archiving your PERSONAL LIFE and many of these CRIMINALS have the MEANS and MOTIVES to use it how they please.
One family was astonished to discover a photo of theirs was being used in an ADVERTISEMENT (on one of those BILLBOARDS you pass by on the road) in ANOTHER COUNTRY! There are other stories. I've witnessed people posting their photo in social networking sites, only to have others who dis/like them COPY the photo and use it for THEIR photo! It's a complete mess.
The whole GAME stretches much farther than the simple RFID device(s), but how far are you willing to READ about these types of instrusive technologies? If you've heard, Wikileaks exposed corporations selling SPYWARE in software and hardware form to GOVERNMENTS!
You have to wonder, "Will my anti-malware program actually DISCOVER government controlled malware? Or has it been WHITELISTED? or obscured to the point where it cannot be detected? Does it carve a nest for itself in your hardware devices' FIRMWARE, what about your BIOS?
Has your graphics card been poisoned, too?" No anti virus programs scan your FIRMWARE on your devices, especially not your ROUTERS which often contain commercially rubber stamped approval of BACKDOORS for certain organizations which hackers may be exploiting right now! Search on the web for CISCO routers and BACKDOORS. That is one of many examples.
Some struggle for privacy, some argue about it, some take preventitive measures, but those who are wise know:
Privacy is DEAD. You've just never seen the tombstone.
ehh, crappy SA box with backdoors and old technology.
Your mom.