On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Tobias Wigand wrote:
hope it doesn´t have any severe exploitable bugs, though. ;-)
Peer review would be good... but it already does some mitigation:
check the security section below.
I've put up the latest version at
http://www.sentia.org/downloads/pftpx-0.5.tar.gz
it includes a manpage as well, which is pretty short so I'll paste it
below.
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Cam
PFTPX(8)OpenBSD System Manager's Manual PFTPX(8)
NAME
pftpx - FTP proxy
SYNOPSIS
pftpx [-6d] [-b address] [-c port] [-D level] [-f address] [-g port] [-m
maxsessions] [-p address] [-q queue] [-t timeout]
DESCRIPTION
pftpx is a proxy for the Internet File Transfer Protocol. FTP control
connections should be redirected into the proxy using the pf(4) rdr com-
mand, after which the proxy connects to the server on behalf of the
client.
The proxy allows data connections to pass, rewriting and redirecting them
so that the right addresses are used. All connections from the client to
the server have their source address rewritten so they appear to come
from the proxy. Consequently, all connections from the server to the
proxy have their destination address rewritten, so they are redirected to
the client. The proxy uses the pf(4) anchor facility for this.
Assuming the FTP control connection is from $client to $server, the proxy
connected to the server using the $proxy source address, and $port is ne-
gotiated, then pftpx adds the following rules to the various anchors.
(These example rules use inet, but the proxy also supports inet6.)
In case of active mode (PORT or EPRT):
rdr from $server to $proxy port $port - $client
pass log quick inet proto tcp \
from $server to $client port $port flags S/SAFR keep state
In case of passive mode (PASV or EPSV):
nat from $client to $server port $port - $proxy
pass log quick inet proto tcp \
from $client to $server port $port flags S/SAFR keep state
pass log quick inet proto tcp \
from $proxy to $server port $port flags S/SAFR keep state
The options are as follows:
-6 IPv6 mode. The proxy will expect and use IPv6 addresses for all
communication. Only the extended FTP modes EPSV and EPRT are al-
lowed with IPv6. The proxy is in IPv4 mode by default.
-b address
Address where the proxy will listen for redirected connections.
The default is 127.0.0.1, or ::1 in IPv6 mode.
-c port
Port where the proxy will listen for redirected connections. The
default is port 8021.
-d Do not daemonize. The process will stay in the foreground, log-
ging to stderr.
-D level
Debug level, ranging from 0 to 7. Higher is more verbose. The
default is 5. (These levels correspond to the syslog(3) levels.)
-f address
Fixed server address. The proxy will always connect to the same
server, regardless of where the client wanted to connect to (be-
fore it was redirected). Use this option to proxy for a server
behind NAT, or to forward all connections to another proxy.
-g port
Fixed server port. Only used in combination with the previous
option. The default is port 21.
-m maxsessions
Maximum number of concurrent FTP sessions. When the proxy reach-
es this limit, new connections are denied. The default is 100.
-p address
Proxy source address. The proxy will use this as the source ad-
dress to connect to servers.
-q queue
Create rules with queue queue appended, so that data connections
can be queued.
-t timeout
Number of seconds that the control connection can be idle, before
the proxy will disconnect. The default is 24 hours. Do not set
this too low, because the control connection is usually idle when
large data transfers are taking place.
CONFIGURATION
To make use of the proxy, pf.conf(5) needs the following rules. All an-
chors are mandatory. The rdr pass rule can be adjusted as needed.
In the NAT section:
nat-anchor pftpx/*
rdr-anchor pftpx/*
rdr pass on $int_if proto tcp from $lan to any port 21 - 127.0.0.1 port
8021
In the rule section:
anchor pftpx/*
SECURITY
Negotiated data connection ports below 1024 are not allowed.
The negotiated IP address for active modes is ignored for security rea-
sons. This makes third party file transfers impossible.
pftpx chroots to /var/empty and changes to user proxy to drop privi-
leges.
SEE ALSO
ftp(1), pf(4), pf.conf(5),
