CLI ambush — William Robinet

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Duration: 30 min

Type: Talk

Speakers: William Robinet

Abstract

In this talk, I’ll present how I discovered a vulnerability common to various TLS/SSL cryptographic toolkits while considering giving a lightning talk at hack.lu last year …

Description

We’ll see how to craft ASN.1 messages and how it helps highlight issues in some CLI apps (OpenSSL as an example).

I’ll then show how this problem extends to other cryptographic toolkits and how one can exploit such issues in order to trap unsuspecting administrators.
We’ll walk through the different attack vectors I found.

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Slides and demo files are available at wllm-rbnt/hacklu-2025-CLI-ambush: Presentation slides and demo files for my talk at hack.lu 2025 in Luxembourg - CLI ambush - Codeberg.org