DROWN allows an attacker to decrypt modern TLS connections between up-to-date clients and servers by sending probes to a server that supports SSLv2 and uses the same private key.

DROWN is made worse by two additional OpenSSL implementation vulnerabilities. CVE-2015-3197 and CVE-2016-0703. First let’s update OpenSSL on all servers with Ansible:

Here is Ansible playbook:

~$ cat openssl.yml

    ---
    # Patches openssl problem and restarts needed services
    - name: Apply common configration to all nodes
      hosts: all
      # Uncomment to apply update one server at a time
      # serial: 1
      tasks:
    
        - name: "Install packages and update cache"
          apt: pkg="" state=latest update_cache=yes
          with_items:
            - openssl
      
        - name: "Restart Services known to be affected"
          service: name= state=restarted
          with_items:
            - ssh
            - nginx
            - whoopsie
            - snmpd
            - ntp
            - supervisor
            - postfix
            - dovecot
            - apache
            - shibd
          ignore_errors: yes
    
        - name: "Check that we are safe"
          shell: >
            if [ "$(openssl version -a | grep built)" != "built on: Fri Dec  4 13:55:16 UTC 2015" ]; then echo "Bad build date"; echo "$(openssl version -a | grep built)"; exit 1; fi
          tags: check
    
        - name: "Check that we don't have affected processes running"
          shell: >
            if [ "$(sudo lsof -n | grep ssl | grep DEL | wc -l)" != "0" ]; then echo "We still have affected processes"; checkrestart; exit 1; fi
          tags: check

Let’s apply it to our servers:

~$ ansible-playbook -i ansible_hosts openssl.yml

For Dovecot we need to disable SSLv2, i found the solution on hackernewsmobile.

~# vi /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

        ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!ADH:!LOW:!SSLv2:!SSLv3:!EXP:!aNULL:!RC4:+HIGH:+MEDIUM

After that restart Dovecot:

~# service dovecot restart

On Apache you should also disable SSLv2 and add this lines to your vhosts files, after the <VirtualHost *:443> line.

~ # vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mycompany-ssl 

    SSLEngine On
    SSLOptions +StrictRequire
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/private/mycompany.com.pem
    SSLProtocol ALL +TLSv1 -SSLv2 -SSLv3
    SSLHonorCipherOrder on
    # Prefer PFS, allow TLS, avoid SSL, for IE8 on XP still allow 3DES
    SSLCipherSuite "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384 EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH+AESGCM EECDH EDH+AESGCM EDH+aRSA HIGH !MEDIUM !LOW !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !RC4 !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS

And after this restart your Apache Server:

~# service apache2 restart

For Nginx we can use this:

~# vi /etc/nginx/ssl-site.conf

    # The following nginx SSL configurations disable SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLS1 and setup secure ECDH ciphers.
    ssl_protocols               TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers                 ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS;
    
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers    on;
    ssl_session_cache 			 shared:SSL:10m;
    
    # Replace the default 1024bit Diffie-Hellman key with a more secure 4096bit key
    # cd /etc/ssl/certs; openssl dhparam -out dhparam.pem 4096
    ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem;

And after this restart Nginx:

~# service nginx restart

Get Code from project public_drown_scanner on github, and install dependencies.

~$ git clone https://github.com/nimia/public_drown_scanner
~$ cd public_drown_scanner
~$ pip2 install enum pycrypto scapy pyasn1 scapy-ssl_tls --user

Now check if you are vulnerable with this:

~$ python2 scanner.py my-mailserver.com 993
~$ python2 scanner.py my-webserver.com 443

We can use are openssl to check it or use nmap to enumerate available cyphers, but due to CVE-2015-3197, OpenSSL may still accept SSLv2 connections even if all SSLv2 ciphers are disabled.

~$ openssl s_client -ssl2 -connect my-mailserver.com 993
~$ openssl s_client -ssl2 -connect my-webserver.com:443
~$ nmap -Pn --script ssl-enum-ciphers -p 993 my-mailserver.com
~$ nmap -Pn --script ssl-enum-ciphers -p 443 my-webserver.com

Finally you must go to drownattack website and test your Servers ( mail, web, etc)

https://test.drownattack.com/