- Implement MySQLRepository extending BaseRepository
- Add SQLAlchemy/SQLModel ORM abstraction layer (sqlmodel_repo.py)
- Support connection pooling and tuning via DECNET_DB_URL env var
- Cross-compatible with SQLite backend via factory pattern
- Prepared for production deployment with MySQL SIEM/ELK integration
- Add @require_role() decorators to all GET/POST/PUT endpoints
- Centralize role-based access control per memory: RBAC null-role bug required server-side gating
- Admin (manage_admins), Editor (write ops), Viewer (read ops), Public endpoints
- Removes client-side role checks as per memory: server-side UI gating is mandatory
- Refactor deploy command to support service randomization and selective service deployment
- Add --services flag to filter deployed services by name
- Improve status and teardown command output formatting
- Update help text for clarity
- Extract dialect-agnostic methods to BaseRepository
- Keep only SQLite-specific SQL and initialization in SQLiteRepository
- Reduces duplication for upcoming MySQL backend
- Maintains 100% backward compatibility
- Add `get_repository()` factory function to select DB implementation at runtime via DECNET_DB_TYPE env var
- Extract BaseRepository abstract interface from SQLiteRepository
- Update dependencies to use factory-based repository injection
- Add DECNET_DB_TYPE env var support (defaults to sqlite)
- Refactor models and repository base class for cross-dialect compatibility
Connection-lifecycle events (connect, disconnect, accept, close) fire once
per TCP connection. During a portscan or credential-stuffing run this
firehoses the SQLite ingester with tiny WAL writes and starves all reads
until the queue drains.
The collector now deduplicates these events by
(attacker_ip, decky, service, event_type) over a 1-second window before
writing to the .json ingestion stream. The raw .log file is untouched, so
rsyslog/SIEM still see every event for forensic fidelity.
Tunable via DECNET_COLLECTOR_RL_WINDOW_SEC and DECNET_COLLECTOR_RL_EVENT_TYPES.
Remove unused imports (ruff F401), suppress B324 false positives on
spec-mandated MD5 in HASSH/JA3/JA3S fingerprinting, drop unused
record_version assignment in JARM parser, and pin pip>=26.0 in dev
deps to address CVE-2025-8869 and CVE-2026-1703.
Replace per-decky sniffer containers with a single host-side sniffer
that monitors all traffic on the MACVLAN interface. Runs as a background
task in the FastAPI lifespan alongside the collector, fully fault-isolated
so failures never crash the API.
- Add fleet_singleton flag to BaseService; sniffer marked as singleton
- Composer skips fleet_singleton services in compose generation
- Fleet builder excludes singletons from random service assignment
- Extract TLS fingerprinting engine from templates/sniffer/server.py
into decnet/sniffer/ package (parameterized for fleet-wide use)
- Sniffer worker maps packets to deckies via IP→name state mapping
- Original templates/sniffer/server.py preserved for future use
Extends the prober with two new active probe types alongside JARM:
- HASSHServer: SSH server fingerprinting via KEX_INIT algorithm ordering
(MD5 hash of kex;enc_s2c;mac_s2c;comp_s2c, pure stdlib)
- TCP/IP stack: OS/tool fingerprinting via SYN-ACK analysis using scapy
(TTL, window size, DF bit, MSS, TCP options ordering, SHA256 hash)
Worker probe cycle now runs three phases per IP with independent
per-type port tracking. Ingester extracts bounties for all three
fingerprint types.
Reverts commits 8c249f6, a6c7cfd, 7ff5703. The SSH log relay approach
requires container redeployment and doesn't retroactively fix existing
attacker profiles. Rolling back to reassess the approach.
New log_relay.py replaces raw 'cat' on the rsyslog pipe. Intercepts
sshd and bash lines and re-emits them as structured RFC 5424 events:
login_success, session_opened, disconnect, connection_closed, command.
Parsers updated to accept non-nil PROCID (sshd uses PID).
The SSH honeypot logs commands via PROMPT_COMMAND logger as:
<14>1 ... bash - - - CMD uid=0 pwd=/root cmd=ls
These lines had service=bash and event_type=-, so the attacker worker
never recognized them as commands. Both the collector and correlation
parsers now detect the CMD pattern and normalize to service=ssh,
event_type=command, with uid/pwd/command in fields.
New GET /attackers/{uuid}/commands?limit=&offset=&service= endpoint
serves commands with server-side pagination and optional service filter.
AttackerDetail frontend fetches commands from this endpoint with
page controls. Service badge filter now drives both the API query
and the local fingerprint filter.
API now accepts ?service=https to filter attackers by targeted service.
Service badges are clickable in both the attacker list and detail views,
navigating to a filtered view. Active filter shows as a dismissable tag.
TLS-wrapped variant of the HTTP honeypot. Auto-generates a self-signed
certificate on startup if none is provided. Supports all the same persona
options (fake_app, server_header, custom_body, etc.) plus TLS_CERT,
TLS_KEY, and TLS_CN configuration.
The collector kept streaming stale container IDs after a redeploy,
causing new service logs to never reach decnet.log. Now _kill_api()
also matches and SIGTERMs any running decnet.cli collect process.
Migrate Attacker model from IP-based to UUID-based primary key with
auto-migration for old schema. Add GET /attackers (paginated, search,
sort) and GET /attackers/{uuid} API routes. Rewrite Attackers.tsx as
a card grid with full threat info and create AttackerDetail.tsx as a
dedicated detail page with back navigation, stats, commands table,
and fingerprints.
- Modify Rfc5424Formatter to read decnet_component from LogRecord
and use it as RFC 5424 APP-NAME field (falls back to 'decnet')
- Add get_logger(component) factory in decnet/logging/__init__.py
with _ComponentFilter that injects decnet_component on each record
- Wire all five layers to their component tag:
cli -> 'cli', engine -> 'engine', api -> 'api' (api.py, ingester,
routers), mutator -> 'mutator', collector -> 'collector'
- Add structured INFO/DEBUG/WARNING/ERROR log calls throughout each
layer per the defined vocabulary; DEBUG calls are suppressed unless
DECNET_DEVELOPER=true
- Add tests/test_logging.py covering factory, filter, formatter
component-awareness, fallback behaviour, and level gating
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
The collector subprocess was spawned via 'python3 -m decnet.cli collect'
but cli.py had no 'if __name__ == __main__: app()' guard. Python executed
the module, defined all functions, then exited cleanly with code 0 without
ever calling the collect command. No output, no log file, exit 0 — silent
non-start every time.
Also route collector stderr to <log_file>.collector.log so future crashes
are visible instead of disappearing into DEVNULL.
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
When --parallel is set:
- DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 is injected into the subprocess environment to
ensure BuildKit is active regardless of host daemon config
- docker compose build runs first (all images built concurrently)
- docker compose up -d follows without --build (no redundant checks)
Without --parallel the original up --build path is preserved.
--parallel and --no-cache compose correctly (build --no-cache).
The BASE_IMAGE build arg was being unconditionally overwritten by
composer.py with the decky's distro build_base (debian:bookworm-slim),
turning the conpot container into a bare Debian image with no conpot
installation — hence the silent restart loop.
Two fixes:
1. composer.py: use args.setdefault() so services that pre-declare
BASE_IMAGE in their compose_fragment() win over the distro default.
2. conpot.py: pre-declare BASE_IMAGE=honeynet/conpot:latest in build
args so it always uses the upstream image regardless of decky distro.
Also removed the USER decnet switch from the conpot Dockerfile. The
upstream image already runs as the non-root 'conpot' user; switching to
'decnet' broke pkg_resources because conpot's eggs live under
/home/conpot/.local and are only on sys.path for that user.
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.
- 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
