So what's your proposal for OAuth?

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Betreff: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Mix-Up and CnP/ Code injection
Von: John Bradley <[email protected]>
An: Torsten Lodderstedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Nat Sakimura <[email protected]>,[email protected]

>The attacks we are talking about (other than cut and paste) are not 
>compromising the integrity of the response.
>
>They rely on the response not containing enough information about the request 
>that is received by the AS for the client to detect tampering with the 
>request, or tricking the client into creating a new client_id based on bad 
>information that includes the token or RS endpoint of the attacker.
>
>As we discussed at IIW we need to do a better job creating a taxonomy for the 
>parts of the attacks.  
>
>At the moment when we say mixup that may mean quite different things to people.
>
>Signing the response on it’s own is not much help.   The reason the connect 
>id_token helps is not so much the signature, but rather that it contains the 
>issuer and client_id as proposed in the draft Mike and I worked on.
>
>If we wanted to sign something it would be better to sign the request to 
>prevent a authorization request sent to one AS from being modified and sent to 
>another AS.
>
>It is also worth noting that the per AS redirect URI are not effective on 
>there own agains all of the things in the bucket of mix up attacks.
>
>I personally prefer that OpenID Connect not add anything new to mitigate this, 
>however education on how to use the existing features for people who are 
>concerned, or at risk is a responsible thing to do.
>
>John B.
>> On Apr 30, 2016, at 10:57 AM, Torsten Lodderstedt <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Nat,
>> 
>> sure, one could also authenticate and cryptographically protect the redirect 
>> response. Leveraging OIDC concepts is an idea worth considering but they 
>> should be adopted to the OAuth philosophy. The id token as used in the 
>> hybrid flows mixes an identity assertion with elements of transport security 
>> measures. A OAuth AS does not provide identity data to clients, so we only 
>> need the transport security part. 
>> I personally would prefer a OAuth response object (similar to request object 
>> you have proposed) over the id token. Such a response object could contain 
>> (and directly protect) state, code and other response values. I consider 
>> this the more elegant design and it is easier to implement then having 
>> detached signatures over hash values of codes or access tokens. Moreover, it 
>> would allow to encrypt the response as well. 
>> Generally, our threat analysis so far does not have provided justification 
>> for cryptographically protected redirect responses. All proposals currently 
>> on the table stop mix up and code injection using simpler mechanisms. 
>> I think OAuth 2.0 is a huge success due to its balance of versatility, 
>> security and _simplicity_. We definitely need to keep it secure, but we 
>> should also keep it as simple as possible.
>> kind regards,
>> Torsten.
>> Am 29.04.2016 um 10:08 schrieb Nat Sakimura:
>>> As I look at it more and more, it started to look like the problem of 
>>> accepting tainted values without message authentication. To fix the root 
>>> cause, we would have to authenticate response. ID Token was designed to 
>>> also serve as a solution anticipating it. 
>>> 
>>> Any concrete ideas? 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 04:47 Torsten Lodderstedt <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> discussion about Mix-Up and CnP seems to have stopped after the session
>>> in BA - at least in the OAuth WG. There is a discussion about
>>> mitigations in OpenId Connect going on at the OpenId Connect mailing list.
>>> 
>>> I'm very much interested to find a solution within the OAuth realm as
>>> I'm not interested to either implement two solutions (for OpenId Connect
>>> and OAuth) or adopt a OpenId-specific solution to OAuth (use id! tokens
>>> in the front channel). I therefore would like to see progress and
>>> propose to continue the discussion regarding mitigations for both threats.
>>> 
>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-mix-up-mitigation-00 
>>> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-mix-up-mitigation-00>
>>> proposes reasonable mitigations for both attacks. There are alternatives
>>> as well:
>>> - mix up:
>>> -- AS specific redirect uris
>>> -- Meta data/turi
>>> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sakimura-oauth-meta-07#section-5 
>>> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sakimura-oauth-meta-07#section-5>)
>>> - CnP:
>>> -- use of the nonce parameter (as a distinct mitigation beside state for
>>> counter XSRF)
>>> 
>>> Anyone having an opinion?
>>> 
>>> best regards,
>>> Torsten.
>>> 
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