FiloSottile / FiloSottile/Heartbleed
Testing VPNs
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- Go
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Description
Issues testing VPNs, getting these results from two different OpenVPN servers I run:
$ Heartbleed examplevpn.com:1194 - ERROR: dial tcp x.x.x.x:1194:connection refused
$ Heartbleed examplevpn2.com:1194 - ERROR: dial tcp x.x.x.x:1194: i/o timeout
Am I doing something wrong or do these use SSL differently to how https works?
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the Heartbleed command-line entry point and reproduce the two OpenVPN commands from the issue against the reported endpoints. Compare the connection-refused and timeout results with the tool's supported protocol assumptions; done means confirming whether this is unsupported VPN behavior or a reproducible tool bug.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- networking, security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100