Detecting Rogue 802.

11 Access Points within the Enterprise

Kirby Kuehl Cisco Systems, Inc.

A Brief Introduction
Access to a wired LAN is governed by access to an Ethernet port for that LAN. Therefore, access control for a wired LAN often is viewed in terms of physical access to LAN ports. Similarly, because data transmitted on a wired LAN is directed to a particular destination, privacy cannot be compromised unless someone uses specialized equipment to intercept transmissions on their way to their destination. In short, a security breach on a wired LAN is possible only if the LAN is physically compromised. With a wireless LAN, transmitted data is broadcast over the air using radio waves, so it can be received by any wireless LAN client in the area served by the data transmitter. Because radio waves travel through ceilings, floors, and walls, transmitted data may reach unintended recipients on different floors and even outside the building of the transmitter. Installing a wireless LAN may seem like putting Ethernet ports everywhere, including in your parking lot. Similarly, data privacy is a genuine concern with wireless LANs because there is no way to direct a wireless LAN transmission to only one recipient.

Rogue
Operating outside normal or desirable controls.
SSID: (Service Set ID )The use of the SSID as a handle to permit/deny access is dangerous because the SSID typically is not well secured. An access point, the device that links wireless clients to the wired LAN, usually is set to broadcast its SSID in its beacons. WEP: (wired equivalent privacy) With open authentication, which is the default, the entire authentication process is done in clear-text, and a client can associate with an access point even without supplying the correct WEP key. With shared-key authentication, the access point sends the client a challenge text packet that the client must encrypt with the correct WEP key and return to the access point. If the client has the wrong key or no key, it will fail authentication and will not be allowed to associate with the access point. (Subject to attack with tools such as airsnort)

802.11b Detection Methods

TCP Fingerprinting (Nmap)

NMAP TCP Fingerprinting

Disadvantages: Scanning entire network indiscriminately (Could be slow on large networks). Intrusive and Noisy (Personal Firewalls and IDS alerts.) False Positives. Does not Audit Access Points** Nmap (http://www.insecure.org/nmap/) example:

802.11b Detection Methods

TCP Fingerprinting (Nmap) 802.11b Analyzer (War Driving)

Detecting Rogue Access Points With an 802.11b Analyzer

War Driving is only a partial solution.

Disadvantage: Using a Wireless Protocol Analyzer is limited by signal range.

Cisco AP 340 Range @ 1Mbps: 1500 ft. (460m) open environment; 300 ft. (90m) office Cisco AP 340 Range @ 11Mbps: 400 ft. (120m) open environment; 100 ft. (30m) office

Cisco AP 350 Range @ 11 Mbps: 800 ft (244 m) open environment; 130 ft (39.6 m) office
Cisco AP 350 Range @ 1Mbps: 2000 ft (610 m) open environment; 350 ft (107 m) office

War driving is typically accomplished using a modified access point with a high gain antenna (Yagi) which significantly increases the range (up to 6.5 miles at 2Mbps).

Cisco Antennas: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ao340ap/prodlit/airoa_ds.htm

802.11b Detection Methods

TCP Fingerprinting (Nmap) 802.11b Analyzer (War Driving) SNMP

SNMP
Disadvantage: Not enabled by default. Snmpwalk ( http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/ ) example:

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802.11b Detection Methods

TCP Fingerprinting (Nmap) 802.11b Analyzer (War Driving) SNMP The Origin of APTools.

IPSU

Ethereal

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Detecting Access Points by Querying Routers and Switches

Advantages:
Not limited to the signal range of the access points like war driving. Positive Identification through MAC Address assignments and only queries Access Points and Access Point Clients. Audits Security Configuration.

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Identifying Access Points via MAC Address IEEE OUI and Company_id Assignments

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Determine if IP is an Access Point or Client via HTTPD Query

Request: HEAD / HTTP/1.0 Referer: http://10.0.0.10/ Connection: Keep-Alive User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Host: 10.0.0.9 Accept: */* Response: HTTP/1.0 501 Not Implemented (Error Ignored) Server: thttpd/2.03 11jul98 Content-type: text/html Date: THU, 01 JAN 1970 18:40:48 GMT Last-modified: THU, 01 JAN 1970 18:40:48 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Connection: close

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Audit Access Point Settings via HTML

SetWEP_Keys.html can be read to determine settings.
Encryption:NONE, FULL, or MIXED Key Size:None Set, 40 bit, or 128 bit

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SNMP Enabled or Disabled?

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What if Basic Authentication is Required?

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HTTP Basic Authentication Denied

First Request: GET .SetHwPC4800.shm?ifIndex=2 HTTP/1.0 Referer: http://10.0.0.10/ Connection: Keep-Alive

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Host: 10.0.0.9 Accept: */* First Response: HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized Server: thttpd/2.03 11jul98

Content-type: text/html
Date: THU, 01 JAN 1970 18:28:23 GMT Last-modified: THU, 01 JAN 1970 18:28:23 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Connection: close WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="15

The User-Agent information is falsified due to JavaScript browser version checking done by the Aironet Access Point HTML pages.

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HTTP Basic Authentication Accepted

The client then sends the user-ID and password, separated by a single colon (":") character, within a base64 encoded string in the http request. Second Request: GET /SetHwPC4800.shm?ifIndex=2 HTTP/1.0 Referer: http://10.0.0.10/ Connection: Keep-Alive User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Host: 10.0.0.9 Accept: */* Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46cGFzcw== Second Response: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: FRI, 02 JAN 1970 12:00:00 GMT Expires: THU, 01 JAN 1970 12:00:00 GMT Content-type: text/html The User-Agent information is falsified due to JavaScript browser version checking done by the Aironet Access Point HTML pages.

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Begin Aptools Input List: Router Hostnames or IP Addresses

Aptools Flowchart
Yes

Query Router or Switch from Input List. show ip arp | include 0040.96 show cam dynamic Generated List of IP Addresses & MAC addresses

More Routers?

No

Done

Query IP From List Yes

Access Client Is IP an Access Point or Client? Point Audit via HTML Authenticate if Necessary And Report More IPs for router?

No

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APTools Automates this Process

Features: Single Scan or List Scan Routers and Switches.

HTTP Basic Authentication Support

Nmap greppable output can be used as input to audit devices. Easily expandable. I have added some untested Scan Types based on information from: http://www.netstumbler.org/query.php Can run a custom command on router or switch! Developed and Tested on Cisco Products: Cisco Aironet Access Points, Cisco Routers, and Cisco Switches. Your Mileage May Vary. Limitations: Does not support SSH. Switch querying needs refinement. APTools

Beta Version available at aptools.sourceforge.net

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Needs Multithreading.

Command line Unix and Win32

Version too.

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Beta Version available at aptools.sourceforge.net

Works Cited
Cisco Aironet http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ao340ap/prodlit/airoa_ds.htm Assessing Wireless Security With AiroPeek http://www.wildpackets.com/elements/AiroPeek_Security.pdf WildPackets AiroPeek http://www.wildpackets.com/products/airopeek IEEE OUI and Company_id Assignments http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml http://www.netstumbler.org Snmpwalk http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net HTTP Basic Authentication http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html - BasicAA Nmap http://www.insecure.org/nmap Remote OS Detection via TCP/IP fingerprinting http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.html List of Default SSIDS 23

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Cisco Aironet Security Solution Provides Dynamic WEP to Address Researchers' Concerns
Recently, researchers at the University of California, at Berkeley, published a document identifying "security flaws in the 802.11 security protocol (WEP)," that "seriously undermine the security claims of the system" and use WEP insufficient for wireless LAN (WLAN) security. Articles about the researchers' findings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and other publications. (Review the summary at http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html and detailed paper at http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-draft.pdf.) Cisco was aware of these limitations before the company defined its Aironet security architecture. With the recent Aironet Software Release 11.0 and ACS 2.6, Cisco offers centrally managed, dynamic per user, per session WEP that addresses several of the concerns that the researchers refer to in their paper.

Cisco agrees with Berkeley researchers who cite inherent weaknesses in WEP as defined by IEEE 802.11b, the standard for WLANs, and that these weaknesses exist regardless of the length of the encryption key used. The weakness of most WLANs is their use of static WEP keys shared among users. "In practice, most installations use a single key that is shared between all mobile stations and access points," the Berkeley report states. "More sophisticated key management techniques can be used to help defend from the attacks we describe; however, no commercial system we are aware of has mechanisms to support such techniques."
URL: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/witc/ao350ap/prodlit/1281_pp.htm Airsnort ( http://airsnort.sourceforge.net) and WEPCrack (http://wepcrack.sourceforge.net) are two utilities that can be used to recover WEP keys.

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