Do we know whether Proton VPN addresses the TunnelVision vulnerability?
Do we know whether Proton VPN addresses the TunnelVision vulnerability?
Apparently, the researchers contacted some VPN providers. Perhaps Proton is one of them.
Mullvad's response a day after the article. Come on proton, at least a "we saw the article and are looking into it".
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/evaluating-the-impact-of-tunnelvision
Evaluating the impact of TunnelVision
May 7, 2024 Security
We evaluated the impact of the latest TunnelVision attack (CVE-2024-3661) and have found it to be very similar to TunnelCrack LocalNet (CVE-2023-36672 and CVE-2023-35838).
We have determined that from a security and privacy standpoint in relation to the Mullvad VPN app they are virtually identical. Both attacks rely on the attacker being on the same local network as the victim, and in one way or another being able to act as the victim's DHCP server and tell the victim that some public IP range(s) should be routed via the attacker instead of via the VPN tunnel.
The desktop versions (Windows, macOS and Linux) of Mullvad's VPN app have firewall rules in place to block any traffic to public IPs outside the VPN tunnel. These effectively prevent both LocalNet and TunnelVision from allowing the attacker to get hold of plaintext traffic from the victim.
Android is not vulnerable to TunnelVision simply because it does not implement DHCP option 121, as explained in the original article about TunnelVision.
iOS is unfortunately vulnerable to TunnelVision, for the same reason it is vulnerable to LocalNet, as we outlined in our blog post about TunnelCrack. The fix for TunnelVision is probably the same as for LocalNet, but we have not yet been able to integrate and ship that to production.
They have posted on Reddit that if you have kill switch and wireguard you are safe on every platform except Linux. A fix is being worked on for linux, no ETA.
Thanks for the reply! Here's their 2024-5-8 reply for reference:
Hi! Our engineers have conducted a thorough analysis of this threat, reconstructed it experimentally, and tested it on Proton VPN. We concluded that:
- the attack can only be carried out if the local network itself is compromised
- our Windows and Android apps are fully protected against it
- for iOS and macOS apps, you are completely protected from this as long as you're using a Kill Switch and a WireGuard-based protocol (our apps use WireGuard by default, and if a user wants to use something other than WireGuard derivates, they'd have to manually set it up). Note that Stealth, WireGuard TCP, and our Smart protocol on iOS/macOS are all WireGuard-based.
- for our Linux app, we're working on a fix that would provide full protection against it.
its about the client.
im using linux so im not affected using proton.
Mullvad already published a blog post a day after stating they reviewed the vulnerability, and it was closed up during their process of fixing a different vulnerability. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/evaluating-the-impact-of-tunnelvision
That we haven't heard anything from proton regarding this vulnerability is not a good sign. Article came out on May 6th and proton has only published basic privacy guides.