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    VPN Provider IP Address Disclosure Fun

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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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      https://www.perfect-privacy.com/blog/2015/11/26/ip-leak-vulnerability-affecting-vpn-providers-with-port-forwarding/

      TL;DR: An attacker can find your real IP address if they can also forward a port on your VPN provider's external address.

      Unless I'm misreading it in my post-Thanksgiving partial food coma, it seems like the easy fix is a floating rule on WAN(s) to block/reject outbound traffic going to your VPN provider's address except for the actual port used to make the VPN connection (e.g. 1194)

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