Note – this Responder Action could be more simplified, but this one is crafted to integrate with the NetScaler Symphony Theme. Possible brute force login attack\"" -logtoNewnslog YES -bypassSafet圜heck YESĭefine a Responder Action What an malicious end-user or “bot” would see if they met the threshold defined in the limit identifier. Within the message you can insert dynamic tokens for the IP and URL you are tracking to identify the application.Īdd audit messageaction aaa_login_err_alert ALERT "\"Max login attempts detected from \" + CLIENT.IP.SRC + \" to \" + + \" within a 5 sec period. We are not concerned about reducing bandwidth here since we want to block so that can be left to default of 0.ĬLI: add ns limitIdentifier aaa_err_login_identifier -threshold 3 -timeSlice 300000 -selectorName aaa_err_login_selector -trapsInTimeSlice 3ĭefine a Log Message Action This step is optional but does provides a mechanism to notify you with a specific audit message that can be forwarded to an off-box SIEM solution. Since requests may not occur at a specific interval within the time slice, a BURSTY limit type is better to use than a SMOOTH one. We choose the selector we defined above, and a mode of “REQUEST_RATE” as we want to know how many times the specific URL will be requested in the Time Slice. You want to select both IP and URL since we want to track hits to the same URL from the same IPĪdd ns limitSelector aaa_err_login_selector CLIENT.IP.SRC ĭefine a Limit Identifier The identifier indicates the pattern within the time slice that will trigger a hit. What we want to accomplish after a set number of login attempts are exceeded within a certain time slice, the user is presented with an alternate response that prevents further posts and potentially also prevents an account lock-out if we make the threshold lower than the account security policyįollow these 6steps to limit the number of requests to the AGEE or AAATM login page. Invalid credentials result in an error message displayed to the end user and a specific HTTP response The NetScaler HTTP Rate Limiting feature can be used in conjunction with the Responder feature as a valid deterrent to help address this vulnerability.īelow is a graphical display of the flow of a logon session with the Rate limiting method configured.Įnd user or malicious application/user are presented with a login form to “POST” credentials to.
Since both AGEE and NetScaler utilize HTTP Forms authentication, they are also vulnerable to this problem. How can the NetScaler HTTP Rate Limiting feature help? Implementing protection against brute force attacks is important for any organization exposing an application to the Internet and is also one of the Open Web Application Security Projects (OWASP) recommended testing procedures. All might need to do is buy or compile a decent list of URLs, usernames and passwords to reference.
This is a very simple computation for a single computer to perform and even easier when you are dealing with something distributed. In statistics, this is simply referred to as Combination theory where you have a combination of n things taken k at a time without or with repetitions. For sites that use HTTP authentication methods such as an HTML Forms this involves, at a very basic level, a specifically crafted HTTP Post which has user/pass form field names with variables that change with each request in a loop that iterates to N! until the dictionary library of usernames and passwords has been exhausted.
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It is fairly simple now-a-days in the age of YouTube how-to videos and a myriad of other black art do-it-yourself tools ( Brutus, THC Hydra, John the Ripper, Cain & Abel, etc…) to learn how to build and orchestrate a brute force style dictionary attack which attempts to find a set of username and password credential pairings that successfully authenticate a malicious attacker. In Part 2 we will look at how you can leverage CAPTCHA on the NetScaler to augment this method to provide an additional layer of protection. Part 1 of this article looks at how you can use the NetScaler HTTP Rate Limiting feature in conjunction with the Responder module to detect and respond to a potential brute force attack. Like many other web applications that have a public facing HTML form used for login, this is an assumed risk. One of the more common requests I see is how to prevent brute force login attacks to the Citrix Access Gateway or NetScaler AAA for Traffic Management Login pages.
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