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# CBC If the **cookie** is **only** the **username** (or the first part of the cookie is the username) and you want to impersonate the username "**admin**". Then, you can create the username **"bdmin"** and **bruteforce** the **first byte** of the cookie. # CBC-MAC In cryptography, a **cipher block chaining message authentication code** (**CBC-MAC**) is a technique for constructing a message authentication code from a block cipher. The message is encrypted with some block cipher algorithm in CBC mode to create a **chain of blocks such that each block depends on the proper encryption of the previous block**. This interdependence ensures that a **change** to **any** of the plaintext **bits** will cause the **final encrypted block** to **change** in a way that cannot be predicted or counteracted without knowing the key to the block cipher. To calculate the CBC-MAC of message m, one encrypts m in CBC mode with zero initialization vector and keeps the last block. The following figure sketches the computation of the CBC-MAC of a message comprising blocks![m\_{1}\\|m\_{2}\\|\cdots \\|m\_{x}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest\_v1/media/math/render/svg/bbafe7330a5e40a04f01cc776c9d94fe914b17f5) using a secret key k and a block cipher E: ![CBC-MAC structure (en).svg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/CBC-MAC\_structure\_\(en\).svg/570px-CBC-MAC\_structure\_\(en\).svg.png) # Vulnerability With CBC-MAC usually the **IV used is 0**.\ This is a problem because 2 known messages (`m1` and `m2`) independently will generate 2 signatures (`s1` and `s2`). So: * `E(m1 XOR 0) = s1` * `E(m2 XOR 0) = s2` Then a message composed by m1 and m2 concatenated (m3) will generate 2 signatures (s31 and s32): * `E(m1 XOR 0) = s31 = s1` * `E(m2 XOR s1) = s32` **Which is possible to calculate without knowing the key of the encryption.** Imagine you are encrypting the name **Administrator** in **8bytes** blocks: * `Administ` * `rator\00\00\00` You can create a username called **Administ** (m1) and retrieve the signature (s1).\ Then, you can create a username called the result of `rator\00\00\00 XOR s1`. This will generate `E(m2 XOR s1 XOR 0)` which is s32.\ now, you can use s32 as the signature of the full name **Administrator**. ### Summary 1. Get the signature of username **Administ** (m1) which is s1 2. Get the signature of username **rator\x00\x00\x00 XOR s1 XOR 0** is s32**.** 3. Set the cookie to s32 and it will be a valid cookie for the user **Administrator**. # Attack Controlling IV If you can control the used IV the attack could be very easy.\ If the cookies is just the username encrypted, to impersonate the user "**administrator**" you can create the user "**Administrator**" and you will get it's cookie.\ Now, if you can control the IV, you can change the first Byte of the IV so **IV\[0] XOR "A" == IV'\[0] XOR "a"** and regenerate the cookie for the user **Administrator.** This cookie will be valid to **impersonate** the user **administrator** with the initial **IV**. # References More information in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC-MAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC-MAC)
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