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Xterminator89
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May 28, 2021

LDAPS account interception through Virtual Server - Is it possible

Dear devcentral,   I'm currently faced with an issue where an administrative user is being locked out because multiple attempts are failing. These attempts and connections, are routed through an...
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  • Nicolas_Martin-'s avatar
    Nicolas_Martin-
    May 28, 2021

    Ok, I got it.

    I was thinking your users where consuming a website via a virtual server and they get prompted to logon by the website then the website use the creds provided by user to Authent through LDAPS.

    If your VS is your LDAPS servers then you cannot read the payload as it is encrypted. What you need to do is to log every SNAT with : 

    when SERVER_CONNECTED {
    log local0. "Clientside connection: [clientside {IP::remote_addr}]:[clientside {TCP::remote_port}] to [clientside {IP::local_addr}]:[clientside {TCP::local_port}] is SNAT to : [IP::local_addr]:[TCP::local_port] to [IP::remote_addr]"
}

    Then retrieve from your LDAPS logs the IP AND Port used for login attempts and lookup this IP/Port in the ltm logs which will reveal the origin source IP

    Regards,

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Xterminator89
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Hello Nicolas, I am quite sure that the info is passed through the payload. Since this is LDAPS, I fear that such traffic is encrypted.

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Nicolas_Martin-
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May 28, 2021

Ok, I got it.

I was thinking your users where consuming a website via a virtual server and they get prompted to logon by the website then the website use the creds provided by user to Authent through LDAPS.

If your VS is your LDAPS servers then you cannot read the payload as it is encrypted. What you need to do is to log every SNAT with : 

when SERVER_CONNECTED {
    log local0. "Clientside connection: [clientside {IP::remote_addr}]:[clientside {TCP::remote_port}] to [clientside {IP::local_addr}]:[clientside {TCP::local_port}] is SNAT to : [IP::local_addr]:[TCP::local_port] to [IP::remote_addr]"
}

Then retrieve from your LDAPS logs the IP AND Port used for login attempts and lookup this IP/Port in the ltm logs which will reveal the origin source IP

Regards,