Binding Burp to a privileged port

abb — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:44:21 +0000

Sometimes it is useful to run an intercepting proxy (running non-root user) on a privileged port. On debian-based systems it is possible using authbind facility.

The first step is to record the necessary port number in authbind config:
$ sudo touch /etc/authbind/byport/443 $ sudo chown abb:abb /etc/authbind/byport/443 $ sudo chmod 755 /etc/authbind/byport/443

After that, run Burp with authbind to let it use privileged port configured above:
$ authbind --deep java -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -jar burpsuite_pro_v1.4.01.jar

Alternatives to this approach is to run Burp as root or bind it to non-privileged port and redirect traffic from privileged port with iptables.

abb Thu, 09/08/2011 - 17:44

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Binding Burp to a privileged port