New option to reject 'trivial' success of userauth.

Suggested by Manfred Kaiser, who also wrote most of this patch
(although outlying parts, like documentation and SSH-1 support, are by
me).

This is a second line of defence against the kind of spoofing attacks
in which a malicious or compromised SSH server rushes the client
through the userauth phase of SSH without actually requiring any auth
inputs (passwords or signatures or whatever), and then at the start of
the connection phase it presents something like a spoof prompt,
intended to be taken for part of userauth by the user but in fact with
some more sinister purpose.

Our existing line of defence against this is the trust sigil system,
and as far as I know, that's still working. This option allows a bit of
extra defence in depth: if you don't expect your SSH server to
trivially accept authentication in the first place, then enabling this
option will cause PuTTY to disconnect if it unexpectedly does so,
without the user having to spot the presence or absence of a fiddly
little sigil anywhere.

Several types of authentication count as 'trivial'. The obvious one is
the SSH-2 "none" method, which clients always try first so that the
failure message will tell them what else they can try, and which a
server can instead accept in order to authenticate you unconditionally.
But there are two other ways to do it that we know of: one is to run
keyboard-interactive authentication and send an empty INFO_REQUEST
packet containing no actual prompts for the user, and another even
weirder one is to send USERAUTH_SUCCESS in response to the user's
preliminary *offer* of a public key (instead of sending the usual PK_OK
to request an actual signature from the key).

This new option detects all of those, by clearing the 'is_trivial_auth'
flag only when we send some kind of substantive authentication response
(be it a password, a k-i prompt response, a signature, or a GSSAPI
token). So even if there's a further path through the userauth maze we
haven't spotted, that somehow avoids sending anything substantive, this
strategy should still pick it up.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/psftp.c b/psftp.c
index fd9b78d3..8eaa6fc5 100644
--- a/psftp.c
+++ b/psftp.c
@@ -2539,6 +2539,8 @@ static void usage(void)
     printf("  -i key    private key file for user authentication\n");
     printf("  -noagent  disable use of Pageant\n");
     printf("  -agent    enable use of Pageant\n");
+    printf("  -no-trivial-auth\n");
+    printf("            disconnect if SSH authentication succeeds trivially\n");
     printf("  -hostkey keyid\n");
     printf("            manually specify a host key (may be repeated)\n");
     printf("  -batch    disable all interactive prompts\n");