Im not one to argue semantics, but "stumbling" upon a web server during
a "sanctioned" penetration test doesn't happen unless the penetration
test is blind .. or the customer forgot to set you up with a client
certificate .. or the web server that you stumbled upon isn't within the
scope of your sanctioned assessment. In all cases but the latter, the
customer needs to generate a client certificate for you. They are
probably running their own CA, which you may need to visit to generate a
certificate request. The trick is to get a certificate that is
EXPORTABLE so that you can fux0r it with openssl into PEM format that
stunnel can use and viola - instant client certificate proxy. Once you
have this client certificate / stunnel proxy, you might have to do some
local DNS foo to make sure that the application recognizes your stunnel
host as a legitimate target, but it should work fine.
-I
Kevin Vanhaelen wrote:
>Hi to all,
>
>whilst in the middle of a Penetration Test I stumbled on a web server only
>serving SSL and demanding the client to present
>a certificate to identify himself.
>I tried to nikto it with sslproxy and browse the site thru paros both with a
>temporary Verisign personal certificate.
>No such luck, the server keeps bouncing me off. Even vulnerability scanners
>like Nessus and Retina don't get passed
>the port-scan portion.
>
>Does anyone have an idea to further assess this server? Am I looking at a
>mission impossible here maybe?
>
>Thanks,
>
>~kevin
>
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