Hi Warren, this is described in detail in the linked paper on page 31 if
you need further clarification.

Aaron


On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 7:36 AM Warren Parad <wparad=
[email protected]> wrote:

> That doesn't make sense to me.
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 21:31 Daniel Fett <fett=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alexander,
>> Am 14.06.23 um 15:19 schrieb Alexander Rademann:
>>
>> *Hello, everyone! Section 4.4.1 of the BCP
>> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-23.html#section-4.4.1>
>> draft lists several variants of mix-up attacks; the description of the
>> Implicit grant variant reads as follows: "In the implicit grant, the
>> attacker receives an access token instead of the code; the rest of the
>> attack works as above." Given the attack description in that section, it is
>> not clear to me why an attacker would receive the access token and which
>> part the "rest of the attack" refers to. When the Implicit grant is used,
>> H-AS sends the access token (via redirect) to the user agent, which
>> extracts it and sends it to the client. However, the client does not send
>> the access token to A-AS, does it? (I hope that I didn’t overlook anything
>> in that section.)*
>>
>> * I also checked the referenced paper <https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01229>;
>> there, the authors assume that the access token is sent to the
>> authorization server under the control of the attacker (or, using their
>> terminology, identity provider) to access some resource. [Appendix B, p.
>> 31ff] Perhaps this (or some similar) assumption should be added to the
>> description of this variant?*
>>
>> The underlying assumption is that when then user selected to use A-AS in
>> the beginning, the access token would also be used with a Resource Server
>> under the attacker's control.
>>
>> -Daniel
>>
>>
>> * I'm sorry if I missed anything or if this has already been addressed
>> before, I'm new to this mailing list and did not find anything in the
>> archives. Kind regardsAlex*
>>
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