Description
This article describes how to decrypt captured Encapsulated Security Payload (ESP) packets initiated or terminated on Fortigate using Wireshark.
Solution
In some case, network administrators need to track specific packets that are encrypted and transferred through IPsec VPN tunnels.
ESP packets can be captured from the GUI Network -> Packet capture or from the CLI:
# diag sniffer packet any "esp and host 10.149.11.30" 6 0 a
To decrypt ESP packets Security Association (SA) information needs to be available, it can be listed from the CLI using this command:
# diagnose vpn tunnel list
The output has to be similar to this:
On Wireshark, open the PCAP file.
Edit the protocol preferences as follows:
1) Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Protocol -> ESP.
1) Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Protocol -> ESP.
2) Enable the last 3 check-boxes and select 'Edit' next to ESP SAs.
3) Create two entries for the incoming and outgoing SAs.
4) For each line add the information obtained from the VPN tunnel list.
Outgoing ESP.
- Protocol: Choose the IP protocol version; eg. IPv4.
Outgoing ESP.
- Protocol: Choose the IP protocol version; eg. IPv4.
- Src IP: The IP address of local gateway; eg. 172.16.1.2.
- Dst IP: The Ip address of the remote gateway; eg. 10.149.11.30.
- SPI: local SPI; eg. 0x7bfa58a1.
- Encryption: Choose the encryption type from the drop-down that matches the used algorithm; eg. AES-CBC [RFC3602].
- Encryption Key: The key after the encryption type; eg. 0x9f7bff78bb0b9b38585dc7cfcc923491c974481265468572b488cac5791450a5.
- Authentication: Choose the authentication type from the drop-down that matches the used algorithm; eg. HMAC-SHA-384-192 [RFC4868].
- Authentication Key: The key after the authentication type; eg. 0x8f94767df3524c694ccac5734db59ab55388dca78a55afe96b96fd4a04d62e642fd37f4b2ea03ff39a9a9125ce54f91f.
Incoming ESP.
- Protocol: Choose the IP protocol version; eg. IPv4.
- Src IP: The IP address of local gateway; eg. 10.149.11.30.
- Dst IP: The Ip address of the remote gateway; eg. 172.16.1.2.
- SPI: remote SPI; eg. 0x8bdd5fe9.
- Encryption: Choose the encryption type from the drop-down that matches the used algorithm; eg. AES-CBC [RFC3602].
- Encryption Key: The key after the encryption type; eg. 0xb8c64630a75f3a89721d448e789bf78cc84aa67a2b8d71836f5a050fa1310df5.
- Authentication: Choose the authentication type from the drop-down that matches the used algorithm; eg. HMAC-SHA-384-192 [RFC4868].
- Authentication Key: The key after the authentication type; eg. 0x04a99d4fc92dbfee1660c62c62defde2878bb163e50241ab96445924281060b2e1e3c3295c9c77e572bcd9818701dd3c.
5) Finally, select 'OK'. All encrypted packets can now be viewed.
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