How can we discuss your idea separately from the library? You talk about options and ACLs but the only hint as to what those might mean is the library.
How would the idea work if not by tree filtering? AdSAFE did that but writing AdSAFE was very different from writing vanilla JS. On Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 9:12 PM doodad-js Admin <dooda...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't want to propose you my library, I want to propose you the idea. > > -----Original Message----- > From: impinb...@gmail.com <impinb...@gmail.com> On Behalf Of Isiah Meadows > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 7:57 PM > To: Mike Samuel <mikesam...@gmail.com> > Cc: doodad-js Admin <dooda...@gmail.com>; es-discuss < > es-discuss@mozilla.org> > Subject: Re: FW: Proposal: safeEval > > Just a quick read, but that's a *terrible* set of ACLs, and I strongly > dislike the idea in general. That utility is trivially broken in multiple > ways (won't announce them on-list, but I've emailed Claude privately), and > I'm pretty convinced the idea itself is broken. > Limiting syntax is incredibly ineffective for anything security-related, > because there are an infinite number of ways to express something in JS, > but only a finite number of ways you can realistically limit it without > breaking it for normal users or just disabling scripting altogether. It > also doesn't stop them from accessing various globals to screw with you. > > To give a concrete example of why syntactic analysis is a bad idea for > security, let's consider eBay's encounter with JSFuck [1] [2]. Because that > literally uses only six seemingly benign characters, `[`, `]`, `!`, `+`, > `(`, and `)`, you can only protect against it by disallowing calls, which > make general use nearly impossible. It was difficult enough that eBay > initially gave up [2], until it resulted in rampant, virtually untraceable > fraud in the wild [3]. > > Now, if you disallow parentheses, you also have to ban assignment if any > of your scripts has an ID [4], because attackers can use that to their > advantage to accomplish the same objective. Claude has an option for that > in his library, but it's not especially obvious you'd need it to prevent > arbitrary code execution. > > Frozen realms together with closures provide privilege separation through > offering capabilities, which addresses who can read and/or write what. > Capabilities are better than ACLs when it comes to security, because if you > limit what they can try, they can't do what they can't try. They can't read > what they can't even try to access. > > If you want real security, focus on what people can try, not what they can > do. And this is why I say this entire proposal is complete and utter crap. > > [1]: https://github.com/aemkei/jsfuck > [2]: > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/ebay-has-no-plans-to-fix-severe-bug-that-allows-malware-distribution/ > [3]: > https://news.softpedia.com/news/jsf-ebay-xss-bug-exploited-in-the-wild-despite-the-company-s-fix-500651.shtml > [4]: http://syllab.fr/projets/experiments/sixcharsjs/5chars.html > > ----- > > Isiah Meadows > m...@isiahmeadows.com > www.isiahmeadows.com > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Mike Samuel <mikesam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 2:26 PM doodad-js Admin <dooda...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> I was not aware of that proposal or didn’t pay attention.I think > >> “safeEval” provides ACLs, while your proposal don’t. > > > > > > Neither the realms proposal nor the frozen realms proposal include ACLs. > > > > Where are the ACLs in safeeval? > > I see some privileges via options at L72-75: > > const preventAssignment = types.get(options, 'preventAssignment', > > true), allowFunctions = types.get(options, 'allowFunctions', false), > > // EXPERIMENTAL allowNew = types.get(options, 'allowNew', false), // > > EXPERIMENTAL allowRegExp = types.get(options, 'allowRegExp', false); > > // EXPERIMENTAL but, as I understand the term, ACLs are usually the > > set of privileges available to a principal, the rows in an access > > control matrix. > > How are you defining "principal?" > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > es-discuss mailing list > > es-discuss@mozilla.org > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > >
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