BubbaRR Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Just a question I had. Does SSLStrip utilize the same vulnerability as the heartbleed bug? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xcellerator Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 No, not at all. Heartbleed is (as far as the general public and industry are aware) a bug that has only just been found. It works by sending a specially crafted request to the server that results in the client receiving a small chunk of memory (64 K to be exact) that *can* contain things like secret keys that can lead to user login details. SSLStrip just forwards all HTTPS requests to the equivalent HTTP site. You can then perform a MITM attack to snatch all the plaintext login attempts sent over the network to the gateway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aprex Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Isn't SSLStrip dead because of all the cerfiticate errors and websites not having http versions anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wifi-stuff Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 What certificate errors? The whole point is that the web site uses http as far as the end-user can tell, so there is no cert checking going on. There is no http version of the website required for sslstrip to work, though you do need a launch point to go from http to https. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aprex Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 (edited) What certificate errors? The whole point is that the web site uses http as far as the end-user can tell, so there is no cert checking going on. There is no http version of the website required for sslstrip to work, though you do need a launch point to go from http to https. Of course there needs to be an HTTP version of the website, else it can't redirect/strip. For example Gmail. It doesn't have an HTTP version so SSLStrip doesn't work for it. If you use Chrome or Firefox, they will give you certificate errors for loads of websites. Edited April 16, 2014 by Aprex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wifi-stuff Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Gmail doesn't work because there's no http page that links to an https version of the site, which is what ssltrip relies on. Most banks don't run http versions of their banking interface, but they have a link to them on an https site, which is all ssltrip needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8igmac Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 If your browser ask for http:/www'google'com and the server redirects you to https:/www'google'com Sslstrip will prevent the redirect from happening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awskier08 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 It has been fixed in the newest release. https://wifipineapple.com/?changelog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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