Just exposed Immich via a remote and reverse proxy using Caddy and tailscale tunnel. I’m securing Immich using OAuth.

I don’t have very nerdy friends so not many people appreciate this.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I don’t think a tailscale tunnel helps this anyway, maybe just from standard antispoofing and geoblocks, but it still gets to the application in full eventually, when they can do what they’d do if it was directly exposed. The attack surface might be an entire API, not just your login screen. You have no idea what that first page implements that could be used to gain access. And they could request another page that has an entirely different surface.

    If someone has Nextcloud exposed, I’m not stopping at the /login page that comes up by default and hitting it with a rainbow table; I’m requesting remote.php where all the access goodies are. That has a huge surface that bypasses the login screen entirely, might not be rate limited, and maybe there’s something in webdav that’s vulnerable enough that I don’t need a correct token, I just need to confuse remote.php into letting me try to pop it.

    You can improve this by putting a basic auth challenge at least in front of the applications webpage. That would drastically reduce the potential endpoints.

    • Noggog@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Thanks for the insight! Does running this in a docker container help limit the damage at all? Seems like they’d only be able to access the few folders I have the container access to?

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Maybe a bit, but if you’re not running rootless docker if they get out of that container they’ll have the run of your docker host. It is a lot of layers to crack, but sometimes they’ve got nothing but time, or it’s been so long since the containers been updated that its trivial. That’s why rootless docker or podman, and Watchtower are your friends.

        Also, vlan off your exposed surface and build firewall rules for the VPN and LAN inbound to it, and specific outbound rules if you need those servers to reach into those networks themselves.