TY - CHAP A1 - Ising, Fabian A1 - Poddebniak, Damian A1 - Kappert, Tobias A1 - Saatjohann, Christoph A1 - Schinzel, Sebastian T1 - Content-Type: multipart/oracle -- Tapping into Format Oracles in Email End-to-End Encryption T2 - 32nd USENIX Security Symposium N2 - S/MIME and OpenPGP use cryptographic constructions repeatedly shown to be vulnerable to format oracle attacks in protocols like TLS, SSH, or IKE. However, format oracle attacks in the End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) email setting are considered impractical as victims would need to open many attacker-modified emails and communicate the decryption result to the attacker. But is this really the case? In this paper, we survey how an attacker may remotely learn the decryption state in email E2EE. We analyze the interplay of MIME and IMAP and describe side-channels emerging from network patterns that leak the decryption status in Mail User Agents (MUAs). Concretely, we introduce specific MIME trees that produce decryption-dependent net work patterns when opened in a victim’s email client. We survey 19 OpenPGP- and S/MIME-enabled email clients and four cryptographic libraries and uncover a side-channel leaking the decryption status of S/MIME messages in one client. Further, we discuss why the exploitation in the other clients is impractical and show that it is due to missing feature support and implementation quirks. These unintended defenses create an unfortunate conflict between usability and security. We present more rigid countermeasures for MUA developers and the standards to prevent exploitation. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23 PB - USENIX Association ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mayer, Peter A1 - Poddebniak, Damian A1 - Fischer, Konstantin A1 - Brinkmann, Marcus A1 - Somorovsky, Juraj A1 - Schinzel, Sebastian A1 - Volkamer, Melanie T1 - "I don’t know why I check this...'' - Investigating Expert Users' Strategies to Detect Email Signature Spoofing Attacks T2 - Eighteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2022) N2 - OpenPGP is one of the two major standards for end-to-end email security. Several studies showed that serious usability issues exist with tools implementing this standard. However, a widespread assumption is that expert users can handle these tools and detect signature spoofing attacks. We present a user study investigating expert users' strategies to detect signature spoofing attacks in Thunderbird. We observed 25 expert users while they classified eight emails as either having a legitimate signature or not. Studying expert users explicitly gives us an upper bound of attack detection rates of all users dealing with PGP signatures. 52% of participants fell for at least one out of four signature spoofing attacks. Overall, participants did not have an established strategy for evaluating email signature legitimacy. We observed our participants apply 23 different types of checks when inspecting signed emails, but only 8 of these checks tended to be useful in identifying the spoofed or invalid signatures. In performing their checks, participants were frequently startled, confused, or annoyed with the user interface, which they found supported them little. All these results paint a clear picture: Even expert users struggle to verify email signatures, usability issues in email security are not limited to novice users, and developers may need proper guidance on implementing email signature GUIs correctly. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2022/presentation/mayer SN - 978-1-939133-30-4 SP - 77 EP - 96 PB - USENIX Association CY - Boston, MA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Puschner, Endres A1 - Saatjohann, Christoph A1 - Willing, Markus A1 - Dresen, Christian A1 - Köbe, Julia A1 - Rath, Benjamin A1 - Paar, Christof A1 - Eckardt, Lars A1 - Haverkamp, Uwe A1 - Schinzel, Sebastian T1 - Listen to Your Heart: Evaluation of the Cardiologic Ecosystem T2 - ARES 2021: The 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security N2 - Modern implantable cardiologic devices communicate via radio frequency techniques and nearby gateways to a backend server on the internet. Those implanted devices, gateways, and servers form an ecosystem of proprietary hardware and protocols that process sensitive medical data and is often vital for patients’ health. This paper analyzes the security of this Ecosystem, from technical gateway aspects, via the programmer, to configure the implanted device, up to the processing of personal medical data from large cardiological device producers. Based on a real-world attacker model, we evaluated different devices and found several severe vulnerabilities. Furthermore, we could purchase a fully functional programmer for implantable cardiological devices, allowing us to re-program such devices or even induce electric shocks on untampered implanted devices. Additionally, we sent several Art. 15 and Art. 20 GDPR inquiries to manufacturers of implantable cardiologic devices, revealing non-conforming processes and a lack of awareness about patients’ rights and companies’ obligations. This, and the fact that many vulnerabilities are still to be found after many vulnerability disclosures in recent years, present a worrying security state of the whole ecosystem. Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-139012 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ebbers, Simon A1 - Ising, Fabian A1 - Saatjohann, Christoph A1 - Schinzel, Sebastian T1 - Grand Theft App: Digital Forensics of Vehicle Assistant Apps T2 - ARES 2021: The 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security N2 - Due to the increasing connectivity of modern vehicles, collected data is no longer only stored in the vehicle itself but also transmitted to car manufacturers and vehicle assistant apps. This development opens up new possibilities for digital forensics in criminal investigations involving modern vehicles. This paper deals with the digital forensic analysis of vehicle assistant apps of eight car manufacturers. We reconstruct the driver’s activities based on the data stored on the smartphones and in the manufacturer’s backend. For this purpose, data of the Android and iOS apps of the car manufacturers Audi, BMW, Ford, Mercedes, Opel, Seat, Tesla, and Volkswagen were extracted from the smartphone and examined using digital forensic methods following forensics guidelines. Additionally, manufacturer data was retrieved using Subject Access Requests. Using the extensive data gathered, we reconstruct trips and refueling processes, determine parking positions and duration, and track the locking and unlocking of the vehicle. Our findings show that the digital forensic investigation of smartphone applications is a useful addition to vehicle forensics and should therefore be taken into account in the strategic preparation of future digital forensic investigations. Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-139031 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Poddebniak, Damian A1 - Ising, Fabian A1 - Böck, Hanno A1 - Schinzel, Sebastian T1 - Why TLS is better without STARTTLS: A Security Analysis of STARTTLS in the Email Context T2 - Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, August 11–13, 2021 N2 - TLS is one of today's most widely used and best-analyzed encryption technologies. However, for historical reasons, TLS for email protocols is often not used directly but negotiated via STARTTLS. This additional negotiation adds complexity and was prone to security vulnerabilities such as naive STARTTLS stripping or command injection attacks in the past. We perform the first structured analysis of STARTTLS in SMTP, POP3, and IMAP and introduce EAST, a semi-automatic testing toolkit with more than 100 test cases covering a wide range of variants of STARTTLS stripping, command and response injections, tampering attacks, and UI spoofing attacks for email protocols. Our analysis focuses on the confidentiality and integrity of email submission (email client to SMTP server) and email retrieval (email client to POP3 or IMAP server). While some of our findings are also relevant for email transport (from one SMTP server to another), the security implications in email submission and retrieval are more critical because these connections involve not only individual email messages but also user credentials that allow access to a user's email archive. We used EAST to analyze 28 email clients and 23 servers. In total, we reported over 40 STARTTLS issues, some of which allow mailbox spoofing, credential stealing, and even the hosting of HTTPS with a cross-protocol attack on IMAP. We conducted an Internet-wide scan for the particularly dangerous command injection attack and found that 320.000 email servers (2% of all email servers) are affected. Surprisingly, several clients were vulnerable to STARTTLS stripping attacks. In total, only 3 out of 28 clients did not show any STARTTLS-specific security issues. Even though the command injection attack received multiple CVEs in the past, EAST detected eight new instances of this problem. In total, only 7 out of 23 tested servers were never affected by this issue. We conclude that STARTTLS is error-prone to implement, under-specified in the standards, and should be avoided. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/poddebniak SN - 978-1-939133-24-3 VL - 2021 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brinkmann, Marcus A1 - Dresen, Christian A1 - Merget, Robert A1 - Poddebniak, Damian A1 - Müller, Jens A1 - Somorovsky, Juraj A1 - Schwenk, Jörg A1 - Schinzel, Sebastian T1 - ALPACA: Application Layer Protocol Confusion - Analyzing and Mitigating Cracks in TLS Authentication JF - 30th USENIX Security Symposium Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/brinkmann ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Willing, Markus A1 - Saatjohann, Christoph A1 - Rath, Benjamin A1 - Schinzel, Sebastian A1 - Eckardt, Lars A1 - Köbe, Julia T1 - Experiences with General Data Protection Regulations and Remote Monitoring of Implantable Rhythm Devices T2 - 87. Jahrestagung der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie – Herz‑ und Kreislauforschung e.V Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00392-021-01843-w PB - Springer-Verlag GmbH ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Willing, Markus A1 - Dresen, Christian A1 - Gerlitz, Eva A1 - Haering, Maximilian A1 - Smith, Matthew A1 - Binnewies, Carmen A1 - Guess, Tim A1 - Haverkamp, Uwe A1 - Schinzel, Sebastian T1 - Behavioral responses to a cyber attack in a hospital environment JF - Nature -- Scientific Reports N2 - Technical and organizational steps are necessary to mitigate cyber threats and reduce risks. Human behavior is the last line of defense for many hospitals and is considered as equally important as technical security. Medical staff must be properly trained to perform such procedures. This paper presents the first qualitative, interdisciplinary research on how members of an intermediate care unit react to a cyberattack against their patient monitoring equipment. We conducted a simulation in a hospital training environment with 20 intensive care nurses. By the end of the experiment, 12 of the 20 participants realized the monitors’ incorrect behavior. We present a qualitative behavior analysis of high performing participants (HPP) and low performing participants (LPP). The HPP showed fewer signs of stress, were easier on their colleagues, and used analog systems more often than the LPP. With 40% of our participants not recognizing the attack, we see room for improvements through the use of proper tools and provision of adequate training to prepare staff for potential attacks in the future. Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98576-7 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dresen, Christian A1 - Ising, Fabian A1 - Poddebniak, Damian A1 - Kappert, Tobias A1 - Holz, Thorsten A1 - Schinzel, Sebastian ED - Zhou, Jianying T1 - CORSICA: Cross-Origin Web Service Identification T2 - The 15th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security N2 - Vulnerabilities in private networks are difficult to detect for attackers outside of the network. While there are known methods for port scanning internal hosts that work by luring unwitting internal users to an external web page that hosts malicious JavaScript code, no such method for detailed and precise service identification is known. The reason is that the Same Origin Policy (SOP) prevents access to HTTP responses of other origins by default. We perform a structured analysis of loopholes in the SOP that can be used to identify web applications across network boundaries. For this, we analyze HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript features of standard-compliant web browsers that may leak sensitive information about cross-origin content. The results reveal several novel techniques, including leaking JavaScript function names or styles of cross-origin requests that are available in all common browsers. We implement and test these techniques in a tool called CORSICA. It can successfully identify 31 of 42 (74%) of web services running on different IoT devices as well as the version numbers of the four most widely used content management systems WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and TYPO3. CORSICA can also determine the patch level on average down to three versions (WordPress), six versions (Drupal), two versions (Joomla), and four versions (TYPO3) with only ten requests on average. Furthermore, CORSICA is able to identify 48 WordPress plugins containing 65 vulnerabilities. Finally, we analyze mitigation strategies and show that the proposed but not yet implemented strategies Cross-Origin Resource Policy (CORP)} and Sec-Metadata would prevent our identification techniques. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://asiaccs2020.cs.nthu.edu.tw/program/ ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Saatjohann, Christoph A1 - Ising, Fabian A1 - Krings, Luise A1 - Schinzel, Sebastian T1 - STALK: security analysis of smartwatches for kids T2 - ARES 2020: The 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security / Editors: Melanie Volkamer, Christian Wressnegger N2 - Smart wearable devices become more and more prevalent in the age of the Internet of Things. While people wear them as fitness trackers or full-fledged smartphones, they also come in unique versions as smartwatches for children. These watches allow parents to track the location of their children in real-time and offer a communication channel between parent and child. In this paper, we analyzed six smartwatches for children and the corresponding backend platforms and applications for security and privacy concerns. We structure our analysis in distinct attacker scenarios and collect and describe related literature outside academic publications. Using a cellular network Man-in-the-Middle setup, reverse engineering, and dynamic analysis, we found several severe security issues, allowing for sensitive data disclosure, complete watch takeover, and illegal remote monitoring functionality. KW - Security KW - Privacy Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-123548 SN - 978-1-4503-8833-7 SP - 1 EP - 10 ER -