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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:45:16 +0200
From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Check your WPA2 Enterprise setup
Hi,
Recently I had to explain to a friend why turning off certificate
checks for wireless networks that use WPA2 Enterprise methods for
authentication is a bad idea. Unfortunately merely enabling some
checkbox in the UI isn't necessarily sufficient either. If the
RADIUS server uses a certificate signed by a public CA one can
easily forget to apply additional constraints (e.g. matching
subject, common name etc) to restrict acceptable certificates.
Failure to set such constraints allows anyone with a valid domain to
forge the wireless network and impersonate the RADIUS server. That
finding isn't exactly new, yet it's hardly mentioned anywhere. So
I've decided to write a paper¹ about it.
I've also contacted NetworkManager upstream since NetworkManager's
certificate handling is rather limited. Using NetworkManager for
WPA2 Enterprise is basically only safe if a private CA is used.
It's planned but not a priority for them to improve the situation.
So if you are using WPA2 Enterprise better check your setup.
cu
Ludwig
[1] http://www.suse.de/~lnussel/The_Evil_Twin_problem_with_WPA2-Enterprise_v1.1.pdf
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