Re: command-line reverse connection tunnel?

From: David Pick (d.m.pickat_private)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 08:05:59 PST

  • Next message: Ivan Buetler: "Re: command-line reverse connection tunnel?"

    > To explain, I need a program on  SERVER1 that creates a connection to
    > CLIENT1.  the connection that is created to CLIENT1 then needs to listen on
    > port 3389.  When CLIENT1 recieves a connection, it needs to pass it through
    > the existing pipe, and SERVER1 needs to connect to itself on port 3389.
    
    This sounds remarkably like SSH port forwarding with CLIENT1
    acting as an SSH server and SERVER1 acting as an SSH client.
    
    > Sort of confusing, I know, and any other suggestions would be welcome, with
    > the stipulation that, again, SERVER1 can only accept outside connections
    > from port 80, but can make connection to any computer.
    
    The fact that SERVER1 can accept connections on port 80 is not
    relevant to the ooperation of the tunnel. It *is* relavent to
    the process of getting the tunnel established. You'll need to
    set up SERVER1 so that when it gets a particular HTTP request
    it runs the SSH client program to establish a tunnel to the
    source of the HTTP request. All this assums that you can run
    and install code on SERVER1. If you can't, you're stuffed, but
    then presumably the administrators of SERVER1 had good reasons
    for not allowing you this sort of access... Given that this is
    a "pen-test" list I would guess that you don't have the access
    you want to SERVER1.
    
    It would also be quite possible to use "HTTPTunnel" but that,
    again, requires the server end of HTTPTunnel to get installed
    on SERVER1.
    
    Of course, again since this is a "pen-test" list, I don't need
    to point out that ***if*** the server is set up correctly, you
    won't be able to gain unauthorized access to SERVER1 using HTTP
    access.
    
    -- 
    	David Pick
    
    
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