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posted by martyb on Monday August 20 2018, @01:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the keep-it-safe-out-there dept.

Submitted via IRC for Fnord666

A new attack named VORACLE can recover HTTP traffic sent via encrypted VPN connections under certain conditions.

The attack was discovered by security researcher Ahamed Nafeez, who presented his findings at the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences held last week in Las Vegas.

[...] VORACLE is not a new attack per-se, but a variation and mix of older cryptographic attacks such as CRIME, TIME, and BREACH.

In those previous attacks, researchers discovered that they could recover data from TLS-encrypted connections if the data was compressed before it was encrypted.

Fixes for those attacks were deployed in 2012 and 2013, respectively, and HTTPS connections have been safe ever since.

But Nafeez discovered that the theoretical points of those attacks were still valid when it came to some type of VPN traffic.

Nafeez says that VPN services/clients that compress HTTP web traffic before encrypting it as part of the VPN connection are still vulnerable to those older attacks.

There are 3 workarounds listed: (1) switch to a non-OpenVPN protocol, (2) stay away from HTTP websites (HTTPS traffic is immune), or (3) use a Chromium-based browser.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/voracle-attack-can-recover-http-data-from-vpn-connections/


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