Neither had shown real recent activity (kack not since Feb 2024, test
with no traffic in the per-vhost log's short history), so rather than
give them dedicated per-host logins like vpn/uschi, removed their DNS
records, TSIG keys, update-policy grants, and .htpasswd accounts
outright. Backed up before removal; jens/uschi/vpn unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FritzBox reconfigured with its dedicated per-host login; a real WAN IP
change after recycling the connection produced a genuine authenticated
update, confirmed in the access log and via dig. First device fully
migrated off the legacy shared-key fallback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the gap where any dyndns credential could update any of the
zone's 5 hostnames. Confirmed live that a FritzBox was already exposed
to this (authenticating as the shared 'jens' account while updating
'uschi'), so implemented a phased rollout: new per-host TSIG keys and
.htpasswd accounts enforce the binding at the BIND layer itself, with
a logged legacy fallback for the pre-existing shared account only,
so unmigrated devices keep working until reconfigured. Also fixed a
bug where nic/update.php reported "good" even on a rejected update.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both were left as "revisit if it escalates" notes from earlier audits.
Checked live logs on alpha via SSH (port 10022): postfix-sasl remains
scattered low-volume noise, not a coordinated low-and-slow campaign like
the dovecot spray; the original three /24s behind the apache-noscript
distributed scan are no longer active, current activity is normal
per-IP jail behavior. No fixes needed for either; also reconfirmed the
dyndns per-user auth binding gap is still present and unfixed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Manual dig confirms 89.58.8.149 still delisted as of 2026-07-26, matching
the automated 1h propagation check. Not conclusive yet - Barracuda's
temporary 48h reputation bump is still in effect; the scheduled 48h
routine on 2026-07-27 is the real test of whether removal stuck.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mail IP 89.58.8.149 got flagged on Barracuda's BRBL; local checks found
no sign of actual abuse (empty queue, minimal legit outbound, no
compromised SASL accounts), so removal was requested. Tracking the
confirmation number and scheduled follow-up checks here until resolved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Same evasion pattern already fixed for sshd recurred against dovecot: a
coordinated IMAP password spray paced just outside the 30-minute findtime
window ran unbanned for days. Widened dovecot's findtime the same way,
and updated SETUP.md so future provisioning applies this to every
credential jail up front instead of waiting for it to reappear.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Real root cause turned out to differ from the original TODO: there was
no broken global CustomLog, mod_vhost_combined was already logging
every vhost without its own CustomLog into other_vhosts_access.log.
Added a dedicated CustomLog per real site anyway for easier incident
review, verified live with curl against all 7 domains after reload.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
README's public-access table and "previously resolved" summary now
reflect the dyndns injection fix and the TSIG-permission regression it
uncovered. Adds two open TODO items found during that audit: the dyndns
app's lack of real per-user auth binding, and the fact that access
logging for every real vhost on this host is currently a no-op.
nsupdate.php/nsupdate_ipv4.php/nsupdate_ipv6.php rewritten to build the
nsupdate command as a string written to proc_open()'s stdin, using the
array form of the command so no shell is ever invoked -- no value can be
interpreted as shell syntax regardless of content. Added hostname/IP
validation as defense in depth. Originals backed up.
Also fixes a regression discovered while testing: www-data never got
read access to the TSIG key when it was tightened to 640 root:bind
(2026-07-19), so legitimate dyndns updates were silently failing
(REFUSED) independent of the vulnerability. Fixed with a POSIX ACL
scoped to just that key file rather than group membership, since the
bind group also owns rndc.key (full remote BIND control).
Verified end-to-end via the real PHP functions: injection payloads
rejected with no side effects, invalid IP rejected, legitimate update
succeeds and is visible in the zone, unauthenticated requests still 401.
nsupdate.php/nsupdate_ipv4.php/nsupdate_ipv6.php pass unsanitized $_GET
input straight into exec()'d shell commands. Gated by Apache Basic Auth
on the dyndns vhost, so not anonymously exploitable, but a real OS
command injection reachable by anyone with valid (or leaked) dyndns
credentials. Documents the finding and the fix approach; not yet applied.
A stray /var/www/html/.htaccess (dated 2025-02-18, predating everything
else in TODO.md) was silently requiring HTTP Basic Auth for jayfield.org
and www.jayfield.org's shared DocumentRoot, 401ing every real visitor to
the intentionally-public static site. Removed (backed up, not deleted).
Also adds a README table auditing which public hostnames do/don't
require credentials, prompted by checking this.
Moved Portainer's HTTPS UI behind an Apache reverse proxy on its own
subdomain (portainer.jayfield.org) instead of publishing it directly on
:9443 with a self-signed cert, which HSTS's includeSubDomains policy made
unreachable in Firefox with no click-through exception. Same pattern as
the existing web.jayfield.org/cloud.jayfield.org proxied subdomains: DNS
A record, Apache vhost proxying to 127.0.0.1:9443 over HTTPS, real
Let's Encrypt cert via certbot, standard HSTS header. Portainer container
recreated to bind 9443 to loopback only; verified end-to-end (cert chain,
HSTS header, redirect, and that :9443 is no longer reachable externally).
Firefox refuses https://alpha.jayfield.org:9443 with
MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT and no click-through: the
includeSubDomains HSTS policy on the real alpha.jayfield.org vhost pins
the hostname to trusted-cert-only HTTPS on every port, but Portainer
still serves its stock self-signed cert directly on 9443. Records the
root cause and the planned reverse-proxy fix; no server changes made yet.
Records the host's service inventory, setup runbook, mail account list,
sync plan, package diff vs. clean install, and hardening TODOs, including
today's SSH hardening (key-only, no root login) and the fail2ban sshd
findtime fix for a low-and-slow brute-force evasion pattern.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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