On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:59 PM ke ju <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree that something should be done swiftly. If you did this, who else
> could have. Also, has the authority been notified, and have they simply
> changed the passwords yet? Ie could a threat actor watching this list now
> go there and get into the system after the disclosure
>

To be clear, I'm not the original reporter. They also posted to the old
list which is why I cross-posted it.

Their blog entry has a timeline:


   - Nov 13, 2022 4:10: Initial contact to e-Tugra about administrative
   systems
   - Unknown: Administrative systems no longer reachable on the internet
   - Nov 13, 2022 18:50: Second set of issues reported to e-Tugra,
   follow-up on initial issues that appeared fixed
   - Nov 14, 2022 8:35: Initial reply from e-Tugra saying they are working
   on resolution
   - Nov 14, 2022 17:18: Asked how to report security issues in the future
   - Nov 16, 2022 22:52: Notified e-Tugra of impending disclosure
   - Nov 17, 2022: Disclosed this post



> On Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 12:52:37 PM UTC-5 [email protected]
> wrote:
>
>> Normally I would say e-Tugra needs to reissue all their certificates or
>> like in this case; it would appear they need to reestablish that the
>> certificates were issued properly, which means having all their customers
>> re-create them, establish domain validation, etc.
>>
>> But in this case, I think it's so severe that they should be removed and
>> be made to re-apply to ensure all their security controls/processes are up
>> to standard because they clearly are not. This isn't a little mistake. this
>> shows a massive failure at all levels, technically and business-wise (not
>> removing default passwords, seriously... that's literally the most basic of
>> the basic, what else did they get wrong?).
>>
>> Additionally, did an attacker possibly get a whole set of new
>> certificates over the summer for their domain names (just a few days
>> ago, etugra renewed everything using their own CA, but they also did a lot
>> of them in July/August of this year).
>>
>> https://crt.sh/?q=e-tugra
>> https://crt.sh/?q=etugratest.com
>>
>> Also, should this discussion be moved to
>> https://groups.google.com/a/ccadb.org/g/public ? Added [email protected].
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:26 AM Ian Carroll <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Today I published a blog post at https://ian.sh/etugra, describing
>>> several serious security issues I discovered in the e-Tugra certificate
>>> authority. I was able to obtain access to two e-Tugra administrative
>>> systems using default passwords, which disclosed numerous amounts of
>>> subscriber PII and verification details, and appeared to impact e-Tugra's
>>> domain control validation processes.
>>>
>>> I am concerned that it is possible for these trivial vulnerabilities to
>>> be present in a publicly-trusted certificate authority. In light of the 
>>> recent
>>> Symantec news
>>> <https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/espionage-asia-governments-cert-authority>,
>>> certificate authorities are clearly being targeted by nation states, but
>>> these vulnerabilities could have been discovered by any amateur security
>>> researcher. From what I have seen, I firmly believe that additional
>>> security issues likely exist in e-Tugra's infrastructure, and they may
>>> already be known to adversaries.
>>>
>>> The Network and Certificate System Security Requirements require an
>>> annual penetration test, or whenever the CA believes there are material
>>> changes. Based on this issue, I am concerned that this control is not
>>> sufficient to protect certificate authorities against application security
>>> issues, and I am concerned that e-Tugra is not following this control. I am
>>> also concerned with the lack of vulnerability disclosure programs and bug
>>> bounty programs that are operated by CAs in general; indeed no certificate
>>> authority at all appears to run a bug bounty program at the moment.
>>>
>>> I would suggest that e-Tugra be compelled to take remedial actions such
>>> as performing a comprehensive penetration test on their external
>>> infrastructure, and building processes to ensure that future applications
>>> that they deploy are secure. I also believe e-Tugra should ensure that
>>> these issues did not have the ability to compromise domain-control
>>> validation for any certificates still valid today.
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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