Spins up each service's server.py in a real subprocess via a free ephemeral
port (PORT env var), connects with real protocol clients, and asserts both
correct protocol behavior and RFC 5424 log output.
- 44 live tests across 10 services: http, ftp, smtp, redis, mqtt,
mysql, postgres, mongodb, pop3, imap
- Shared conftest.py: _ServiceProcess (bg reader thread + queue),
free_port, live_service fixture, assert_rfc5424 helper
- PORT env var added to all 10 targeted server.py templates
- New pytest marker `live`; excluded from default addopts run
- requirements-live-tests.txt: flask, twisted + protocol clients
MongoDB had the same infinite-loop bug as MSSQL (msg_len=0 → buffer never
shrinks in while loop). Postgres, MySQL, and MQTT had related length-field
issues (stuck state, resource exhaustion, overlong remaining-length).
Also fixes an existing MongoDB _op_reply struct.pack format bug (extra 'q'
specifier caused struct.error on any OP_QUERY response).
Adds 53 regression + protocol boundary tests across MSSQL, MongoDB,
Postgres, MySQL, and MQTT, including a _run_with_timeout threading harness
to catch infinite loops and @pytest.mark.fuzz hypothesis tests for each.
Cowrie was exposing an SSH daemon on port 22 alongside the telnet service
even when COWRIE_SSH_ENABLED=false, contaminating deployments that did not
request an SSH service.
New implementation mirrors the SSH service pattern:
- busybox telnetd in foreground mode on port 23
- /bin/login for real PAM authentication (brute-force attempts logged)
- rsyslog RFC 5424 bridge piped to stdout for Docker log capture
- Configurable root password and hostname via env vars
- No Cowrie dependency
real_ssh was a separate service name pointing to the same template and
behaviour as ssh. Merged them: ssh is now the single real-OpenSSH service.
- Rename templates/real_ssh/ → templates/ssh/
- Remove decnet/services/real_ssh.py
- Deaddeck archetype updated: services=["ssh"]
- Merge test_real_ssh.py into test_ssh.py (includes deaddeck + logging tests)
- Drop decnet.services.real_ssh from test_build module list
Collector and mutator watcher subprocesses were spawned without
start_new_session=True, leaving them in the parent's process group.
SIGHUP (sent when the controlling terminal closes) killed both
processes silently — stdout/stderr were DEVNULL so the crash was
invisible.
Also update test_services and test_composer to reflect the ssh plugin
no longer using Cowrie env vars (replaced with SSH_ROOT_PASSWORD /
SSH_HOSTNAME matching the real_ssh plugin).
Scraps the Cowrie emulation layer. The real_ssh template now runs a
genuine sshd backed by a three-layer logging stack forwarded to stdout
as RFC 5424 for the DECNET collector:
auth,authpriv.* → rsyslogd → named pipe → stdout (logins/failures)
user.* → rsyslogd → named pipe → stdout (PROMPT_COMMAND cmds)
sudo syslog=auth → rsyslogd → named pipe → stdout (privilege escalation)
sudo logfile → /var/log/sudo.log (local backup with I/O)
The ssh.py service plugin now points to templates/real_ssh and drops all
COWRIE_* / NODE_NAME env vars, sharing the same compose fragment shape as
real_ssh.py.
_load_service_container_names() reads decnet-state.json and builds the
exact set of expected container names ({decky}-{service}). is_service_container()
and is_service_event() do a direct set lookup — no regex, no label
inspection, no heuristics.
Two bugs caused the log file to never be written:
1. is_service_container() used regex '^decky-\d+-\w' which only matched
the old decky-01-smtp naming style. Actual containers are named
omega-decky-smtp, relay-decky-smtp, etc. Fixed by using Docker Compose
labels instead: com.docker.compose.project=decnet + non-empty
depends_on discriminates service containers from base (sleep infinity)
containers reliably regardless of decky naming convention.
Added is_service_event() for the Docker events path.
2. The collector was only started when --api was used. Added a 'collect'
CLI subcommand (decnet collect --log-file <path>) and wired it into
deploy as an auto-started background process when --api is not in use.
Default log path: /var/log/decnet/decnet.log
Windows: both 0 (no ICMP rate limiting — matches real Windows behavior)
Linux: 1000ms / mask 6168 (kernel defaults)
BSD: 250ms / mask 6168 (FreeBSD default is faster than Linux)
Embedded/Cisco: both 0 (most firmware doesn't rate-limit ICMP)
These affect nmap's IE and U1 probe groups which measure ICMP error
response timing to closed UDP ports. Windows responds to all probes
instantly while Linux throttles to ~1/sec.
Tests: 10 new cases (5 per sysctl). Suite: 822 passed.
ip_no_pmtu_disc controls PMTU discovery for UDP/ICMP paths only.
TI=Z originates from ip_select_ident() in the kernel TCP stack setting
IP ID=0 for DF=1 TCP packets — a namespace-scoped sysctl cannot change this.
The previous commit was based on incorrect root-cause analysis.
When ip_no_pmtu_disc=0 the Linux kernel sets DF=1 on TCP packets and uses
IP ID=0 (RFC 6864). nmap's TI=Z fingerprint has no Windows match in its DB,
causing 91% confidence guesses of 'Linux 2.4/2.6 embedded' regardless of
TTL being 128. Setting ip_no_pmtu_disc=1 allows non-zero IP ID generation.
Trade-off: DF bit is not set on outgoing packets (slightly wrong for Windows)
but TI=Z is far more damaging to the spoof than losing DF accuracy.
Add tcp_timestamps, tcp_window_scaling, tcp_sack, tcp_ecn, ip_no_pmtu_disc,
and tcp_fin_timeout to every OS profile in OS_SYSCTLS.
All 6 are network-namespace-scoped and safe to set per-container without
--privileged. They directly influence nmap's OPS, WIN, ECN, and T2-T6
probe groups, making OS family detection significantly more convincing.
Key changes:
- tcp_timestamps=0 for windows/embedded/cisco (strongest Windows discriminator)
- tcp_ecn=2 for linux (ECN offer), 0 for all others
- tcp_sack=0 / tcp_window_scaling=0 for embedded/cisco
- ip_no_pmtu_disc=1 for embedded/cisco (DF bit ICMP behaviour)
- Expose _REQUIRED_SYSCTLS frozenset for completeness assertions
Tests: 88 new test cases across all OS families and composer integration.
Total suite: 812 passed.
- Add dynamic challenge nonces to Postgres, VNC, and SIP.
- Add basic keyspace lookup and mock data to Redis.
- Correct MSSQL TDS pre-login offset bounds.
- Support MongoDB OP_MSG handshake version checking.
- Suppress Werkzeug HTTP server headers and normalize FTPAnonymousShell response.
- Add tracking for Dynamic Bait Store (DEBT-027) via DEBT.md.
- decnet/services/smtp_relay.py: open relay variant of smtp, same template
with SMTP_OPEN_RELAY=1 baked into the environment
- tests/service_testing/__init__.py: init so pytest discovers the subdirectory
- Buffer DATA body until CRLF.CRLF terminator — fixes 502-on-every-body-line bug
- SMTP_OPEN_RELAY=1: AUTH accepted (235), RCPT TO accepted for any domain,
full DATA pipeline with queued-as message ID
- Default (SMTP_OPEN_RELAY=0): credential harvester — AUTH rejected (535)
but connection stays open, RCPT TO returns 554 relay denied
- SASL PLAIN and LOGIN multi-step AUTH both decoded and logged
- RSET clears all per-transaction state
- Add development/SMTP_RELAY.md, IMAP_BAIT.md, ICS_SCADA.md, BUG_FIXES.md
(live-tested service realism plans)
Services now print RFC 5424 to stdout; Docker captures via json-file driver.
A new host-side collector (decnet.web.collector) streams docker logs from all
running decky service containers and writes RFC 5424 + parsed JSON to the host
log file. The existing ingester continues to tail the .json file unchanged.
rsyslog can consume the .log file independently — no DECNET involvement needed.
Removes: bind-mount volume injection, _LOG_NETWORK bridge, log_target config
field and --log-target CLI flag, TCP syslog forwarding from service templates.
- Rebuild repo.engine and repo.session_factory per-test using unique
in-memory SQLite URIs — fixes KeyError: 'access_token' caused by
stale session_factory pointing at production DB
- Add @pytest.mark.fuzz to all Hypothesis and Schemathesis tests;
default run excludes them (addopts = -m 'not fuzz')
- Add missing fuzz tests to bounty, fleet, histogram, and repository
- Use tmp_path for state file in patch_state_file/mock_state_file to
eliminate file-path race conditions under xdist parallelism
- Set default addopts: -v -q -x -n logical (26 tests in ~7s)
- decnet/env.py: DECNET_JWT_SECRET and DECNET_ADMIN_PASSWORD are now
required env vars; startup raises ValueError if unset or set to a
known-bad default ("admin", "password", etc.)
- decnet/env.py: add DECNET_CORS_ORIGINS (comma-separated, defaults to
http://localhost:8080) replacing the previous allow_origins=["*"]
- decnet/web/api.py: use DECNET_CORS_ORIGINS and tighten allow_methods
and allow_headers to explicit lists
- tests/conftest.py: set required env vars at module level so test
collection works without real credentials
- tests/test_web_api.py, test_web_api_fuzz.py: use DECNET_ADMIN_PASSWORD
from env instead of hardcoded "admin"
Closes DEBT-001, DEBT-002, DEBT-004
Introduces the 'real_ssh' service plugin backed by a genuine OpenSSH
server (not cowrie), and the 'deaddeck' archetype that uses it. The
container ships with a lived-in Linux environment and a deliberately
weak root:admin credential to invite exploitation.
- templates/real_ssh/: Dockerfile + entrypoint (configurable via env)
- decnet/services/real_ssh.py: BaseService plugin, service_cfg supports
password and hostname overrides
- decnet/archetypes.py: deaddeck archetype added
- tests/test_real_ssh.py: 17 tests covering registration, compose
fragment structure, overrides, and archetype
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- ini_loader.py: DeckySpec gains nmap_os field; load_ini parses nmap_os=
(also accepts nmap-os= hyphen alias) and propagates it to amount-expanded deckies
- cli.py: _build_deckies_from_ini resolves nmap_os with priority:
explicit INI key > archetype default > "linux"
- test-full.ini: every decky now carries nmap_os=; [windows-workstation]
gains archetype= so its OS family is set correctly; decky-winbox/fileserv/
ldapdc → windows, decky-iot → embedded, decky-legacy → bsd, rest → linux
- tests/test_ini_loader.py: 7 new tests covering nmap_os parsing, defaults,
hyphen alias, and amount= expansion propagation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each decky base container now receives a set of Linux kernel sysctls
(net.ipv4.ip_default_ttl, net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries, etc.) tuned to
match the claimed OS family, making nmap OS detection return the
expected OS rather than the Linux host.
- decnet/os_fingerprint.py: OS profile table (linux/windows/bsd/embedded/cisco)
keyed by TTL and TCP tuning knobs
- decnet/archetypes.py: Archetype gains nmap_os field; windows-* → "windows",
printer/iot/industrial → "embedded", rest → "linux"
- decnet/config.py: DeckyConfig gains nmap_os field (default "linux")
- decnet/cli.py: nmap_os resolved from archetype → DeckyConfig in both CLI
and INI build paths
- decnet/composer.py: base container gets sysctls + cap_add: [NET_ADMIN];
service containers inherit via shared network namespace
- tests/test_os_fingerprint.py: 48 new tests covering profiles, compose
injection, archetype coverage, and CLI propagation
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
