CSRF protection and mounting pages
Hi!
I am currently looking into making our Wicket applications CSRF safe.
From my understanding the CryptoMapper is the way to go, and I was able
to set it up working successfully.
There are however several mounted pages in the applications (with
WebApplication.mountPage), where the URLs should not be encrypted. This
also works fine, the CryptoMapper does not encrypt the URLs to these
pages, but that also removes the CSRF protection. E.g. if one of these
mounted pages contains a form, the URL to post back the form data is
unencrypted and vulnerable to CSRF.
My idea was to not mount pages directly, but instead mount a Page that
redirects to the actual page. That way the page is still reachable with
a static URL, but all consequent requests are properly encrypted.
So instead of:
webApplication.mountPage(login, LoginPage.class);
Something like this:
public class LoginPageRedirect extends WebPage {
protected void onInitialize() {
throw new RestartResponseException(LoginPage.class);
}
}
webApplication.mountPage(login, LoginPageRedirect.class);
I did however not find anything in the wicket API that supports this
concept and now I am wondering if there is a better way to do this, e.g.
with a server side redirect.
I would be grateful for any ideas!
Best Regards,
Andreas
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Re: CSRF protection and mounting pages
Hi,
You can extend CryptoMapper and setup it as root mapper.
In your custom CryptoMapper you can override Url mapHandler(final
IRequestHandler requestHandler). If the passed requestHandler is
IPageClassRequestHandler then you can call #getPageClass() on it and decide
whether to encrypt the Url or not. For all other IRequestHandlers - always
encrypt.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Andreas Kappler
andreas.kapp...@jato-consulting.de wrote:
Hi!
I am currently looking into making our Wicket applications CSRF safe. From
my understanding the CryptoMapper is the way to go, and I was able to set
it up working successfully.
There are however several mounted pages in the applications (with
WebApplication.mountPage), where the URLs should not be encrypted. This
also works fine, the CryptoMapper does not encrypt the URLs to these pages,
but that also removes the CSRF protection. E.g. if one of these mounted
pages contains a form, the URL to post back the form data is unencrypted
and vulnerable to CSRF.
My idea was to not mount pages directly, but instead mount a Page that
redirects to the actual page. That way the page is still reachable with a
static URL, but all consequent requests are properly encrypted.
So instead of:
webApplication.mountPage(**login, LoginPage.class);
Something like this:
public class LoginPageRedirect extends WebPage {
protected void onInitialize() {
throw new RestartResponseException(**LoginPage.class);
}
}
webApplication.mountPage(**login, LoginPageRedirect.class);
I did however not find anything in the wicket API that supports this
concept and now I am wondering if there is a better way to do this, e.g.
with a server side redirect.
I would be grateful for any ideas!
Best Regards,
Andreas
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Re: CSRF protection and mounting pages
Hi Martin,
thanks for your answer. I tried that and I am not sure if I did
something wrong, but still the URLs generated for posting forms are not
encrypted.
For example I have a page that contains a form to change the user's
password and I want the page to be available as /changePassword. Now if
the user submits the form, the form's action points to
/changePassword?xyz, which makes it open to CSRF.
Best Regards,
Andreas
Am 18.09.2013 13:09, schrieb Martin Grigorov:
Hi,
You can extend CryptoMapper and setup it as root mapper.
In your custom CryptoMapper you can override Url mapHandler(final
IRequestHandler requestHandler). If the passed requestHandler is
IPageClassRequestHandler then you can call #getPageClass() on it and decide
whether to encrypt the Url or not. For all other IRequestHandlers - always
encrypt.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Andreas Kappler
andreas.kapp...@jato-consulting.de wrote:
Hi!
I am currently looking into making our Wicket applications CSRF safe. From
my understanding the CryptoMapper is the way to go, and I was able to set
it up working successfully.
There are however several mounted pages in the applications (with
WebApplication.mountPage), where the URLs should not be encrypted. This
also works fine, the CryptoMapper does not encrypt the URLs to these pages,
but that also removes the CSRF protection. E.g. if one of these mounted
pages contains a form, the URL to post back the form data is unencrypted
and vulnerable to CSRF.
My idea was to not mount pages directly, but instead mount a Page that
redirects to the actual page. That way the page is still reachable with a
static URL, but all consequent requests are properly encrypted.
So instead of:
webApplication.mountPage(**login, LoginPage.class);
Something like this:
public class LoginPageRedirect extends WebPage {
protected void onInitialize() {
throw new RestartResponseException(**LoginPage.class);
}
}
webApplication.mountPage(**login, LoginPageRedirect.class);
I did however not find anything in the wicket API that supports this
concept and now I am wondering if there is a better way to do this, e.g.
with a server side redirect.
I would be grateful for any ideas!
Best Regards,
Andreas
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Re: CSRF protection and mounting pages
Check https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-5326
It talks about similar things
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Andreas Kappler
andreas.kapp...@jato-consulting.de wrote:
Hi Martin,
thanks for your answer. I tried that and I am not sure if I did something
wrong, but still the URLs generated for posting forms are not encrypted.
For example I have a page that contains a form to change the user's
password and I want the page to be available as /changePassword. Now if the
user submits the form, the form's action points to /changePassword?xyz,
which makes it open to CSRF.
Best Regards,
Andreas
Am 18.09.2013 13:09, schrieb Martin Grigorov:
Hi,
You can extend CryptoMapper and setup it as root mapper.
In your custom CryptoMapper you can override Url mapHandler(final
IRequestHandler requestHandler). If the passed requestHandler is
IPageClassRequestHandler then you can call #getPageClass() on it and
decide
whether to encrypt the Url or not. For all other IRequestHandlers - always
encrypt.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Andreas Kappler
andreas.kappler@jato-**consulting.de andreas.kapp...@jato-consulting.de
wrote:
Hi!
I am currently looking into making our Wicket applications CSRF safe.
From
my understanding the CryptoMapper is the way to go, and I was able to set
it up working successfully.
There are however several mounted pages in the applications (with
WebApplication.mountPage), where the URLs should not be encrypted. This
also works fine, the CryptoMapper does not encrypt the URLs to these
pages,
but that also removes the CSRF protection. E.g. if one of these mounted
pages contains a form, the URL to post back the form data is unencrypted
and vulnerable to CSRF.
My idea was to not mount pages directly, but instead mount a Page that
redirects to the actual page. That way the page is still reachable with a
static URL, but all consequent requests are properly encrypted.
So instead of:
webApplication.mountPage(login, LoginPage.class);
Something like this:
public class LoginPageRedirect extends WebPage {
protected void onInitialize() {
throw new RestartResponseException(LoginPage.class);
}
}
webApplication.mountPage(login, LoginPageRedirect.class);
I did however not find anything in the wicket API that supports this
concept and now I am wondering if there is a better way to do this, e.g.
with a server side redirect.
I would be grateful for any ideas!
Best Regards,
Andreas
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Re: CSRF protection and mounting pages
Thanks for pointing out that ticket. So as I see it, there is currently
no easy way to secure pages from CSRF attacks if they are mounted. To be
honest I find it a bit surprising that no one contributed a solution for
this common problem.
I will probably go for the solution with redirects instead of mounting
pages, it seems to me to be the safest way.
Am 18.09.2013 14:08, schrieb Martin Grigorov:
Check https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-5326
It talks about similar things
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Andreas Kappler
andreas.kapp...@jato-consulting.de wrote:
Hi Martin,
thanks for your answer. I tried that and I am not sure if I did something
wrong, but still the URLs generated for posting forms are not encrypted.
For example I have a page that contains a form to change the user's
password and I want the page to be available as /changePassword. Now if the
user submits the form, the form's action points to /changePassword?xyz,
which makes it open to CSRF.
Best Regards,
Andreas
Am 18.09.2013 13:09, schrieb Martin Grigorov:
Hi,
You can extend CryptoMapper and setup it as root mapper.
In your custom CryptoMapper you can override Url mapHandler(final
IRequestHandler requestHandler). If the passed requestHandler is
IPageClassRequestHandler then you can call #getPageClass() on it and
decide
whether to encrypt the Url or not. For all other IRequestHandlers - always
encrypt.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Andreas Kappler
andreas.kappler@jato-**consulting.de andreas.kapp...@jato-consulting.de
wrote:
Hi!
I am currently looking into making our Wicket applications CSRF safe.
From
my understanding the CryptoMapper is the way to go, and I was able to set
it up working successfully.
There are however several mounted pages in the applications (with
WebApplication.mountPage), where the URLs should not be encrypted. This
also works fine, the CryptoMapper does not encrypt the URLs to these
pages,
but that also removes the CSRF protection. E.g. if one of these mounted
pages contains a form, the URL to post back the form data is unencrypted
and vulnerable to CSRF.
My idea was to not mount pages directly, but instead mount a Page that
redirects to the actual page. That way the page is still reachable with a
static URL, but all consequent requests are properly encrypted.
So instead of:
webApplication.mountPage(login, LoginPage.class);
Something like this:
public class LoginPageRedirect extends WebPage {
protected void onInitialize() {
throw new RestartResponseException(LoginPage.class);
}
}
webApplication.mountPage(login, LoginPageRedirect.class);
I did however not find anything in the wicket API that supports this
concept and now I am wondering if there is a better way to do this, e.g.
with a server side redirect.
I would be grateful for any ideas!
Best Regards,
Andreas
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Re: CSRF protection and mounting pages
Hi Andreas,
Try using this, in addition to normal CryptoMapper.
usage:
protected void init()
{
setRootRequestMapper(new CryptoMapper(getRootRequestMapper(), .));
mountPage();
mountPage();
mountPage();
mountPage();
mountPage();
setRootRequestMapper(new
ListenerInterfaceCryptoMapper(getRootRequestMapper(), ));
}
Let me know if it works for you?
Cheers,
Jesse
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.wicket.Application;
import
org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.BookmarkableListenerInterfaceRequestHandler;
import
org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler;
import org.apache.wicket.core.request.mapper.CryptoMapper;
import org.apache.wicket.request.IRequestHandler;
import org.apache.wicket.request.IRequestMapper;
import org.apache.wicket.request.Request;
import org.apache.wicket.request.Url;
import org.apache.wicket.util.IProvider;
import org.apache.wicket.util.crypt.ICrypt;
import org.apache.wicket.util.string.Strings;
public class ListenerInterfaceCryptoMapper
extends CryptoMapper
{
private final String parameterName;
public ListenerInterfaceCryptoMapperCryptoMapper(String
parameterName, IRequestMapper wrappedMapper, Application application)
{
super(wrappedMapper, application);
this.parameterName = parameterName;
}
public ListenerInterfaceCryptoMapper(String parameterName,
IRequestMapper wrappedMapper, IProviderICrypt cryptProvider)
{
super(wrappedMapper, cryptProvider);
this.parameterName = parameterName;
}
@Override
protected Url decryptUrl(Request request, Url encryptedUrl)
{
ListUrl.QueryParameter queryParameters =
encryptedUrl.getQueryParameters();
if (queryParameters.size() == 1){
Url.QueryParameter param = queryParameters.get(0);
if (param.getName().equals(parameterName)
Strings.isEmpty(param.getValue()) == false){
String decodedQueryString =
getCrypt().decryptUrlSafe(param.getValue());
return new Url(encryptedUrl.getSegments(),
Url.parse(decodedQueryString,
encryptedUrl.getCharset()).getQueryParameters(), encryptedUrl.getCharset());
}
}
return encryptedUrl;
}
@Override
protected Url encryptUrl(Url url)
{
// no encrypting of segments
return url;
}
@Override
public Url mapHandler(IRequestHandler requestHandler)
{
Url url = super.mapHandler(requestHandler);
if (url.getQueryParameters().isEmpty()){
return url;
}
if ((requestHandler instanceof ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler)
|| (requestHandler instanceof BookmarkableListenerInterfaceRequestHandler)){
Url encryptedUrl = new Url(url.getSegments(),
url.getCharset());
encryptedUrl.addQueryParameter(parameterName,
getCrypt().encryptUrlSafe(url.getQueryString()));
return encryptedUrl;
}else{
return url;
}
}
}
On 18/09/2013 14:48, Andreas Kappler wrote:
Thanks for pointing out that ticket. So as I see it, there is
currently no easy way to secure pages from CSRF attacks if they are
mounted. To be honest I find it a bit surprising that no one
contributed a solution for this common problem.
I will probably go for the solution with redirects instead of mounting
pages, it seems to me to be the safest way.
Am 18.09.2013 14:08, schrieb Martin Grigorov:
Check https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-5326
It talks about similar things
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Andreas Kappler
andreas.kapp...@jato-consulting.de wrote:
Hi Martin,
thanks for your answer. I tried that and I am not sure if I did
something
wrong, but still the URLs generated for posting forms are not
encrypted.
For example I have a page that contains a form to change the user's
password and I want the page to be available as /changePassword. Now
if the
user submits the form, the form's action points to /changePassword?xyz,
which makes it open to CSRF.
Best Regards,
Andreas
Am 18.09.2013 13:09, schrieb Martin Grigorov:
Hi,
You can extend CryptoMapper and setup it as root mapper.
In your custom CryptoMapper you can override Url mapHandler(final
IRequestHandler requestHandler). If the passed requestHandler is
IPageClassRequestHandler then you can call #getPageClass() on it and
decide
whether to encrypt the Url or not. For all other IRequestHandlers -
always
encrypt.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Andreas Kappler
andreas.kappler@jato-**consulting.de
andreas.kapp...@jato-consulting.de
wrote:
Hi!
I am currently looking into making our Wicket applications CSRF safe.
From
my understanding the CryptoMapper is the way to go, and I was able
to set
it up working successfully.
There are however several mounted pages in the applications (with
WebApplication.mountPage), where the URLs should not be encrypted.
This
also works
Re: CSRF protection and mounting pages
Hi Jesse,
thanks, this looks like a promising solution! However I have two
problems with it:
1) Some ajax requests (not all requests, but e.g. expanding an item in a
TreeTable) result in a ajax redirect to the actual ajax response, which
is then displayed in the browser. I have not investigated this any
further yet.
2) It seems to me that the ListenerInterfaceCryptoMapper allows
unencrypted query strings? This would effectively surpress the CSRF
protection.
Best Regards,
Andreas
Am 18.09.2013 15:14, schrieb Jesse Long:
Hi Andreas,
Try using this, in addition to normal CryptoMapper.
usage:
protected void init()
{
setRootRequestMapper(new CryptoMapper(getRootRequestMapper(), .));
mountPage();
mountPage();
mountPage();
mountPage();
mountPage();
setRootRequestMapper(new
ListenerInterfaceCryptoMapper(getRootRequestMapper(), ));
}
Let me know if it works for you?
Cheers,
Jesse
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.wicket.Application;
import
org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.BookmarkableListenerInterfaceRequestHandler;
import
org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler;
import org.apache.wicket.core.request.mapper.CryptoMapper;
import org.apache.wicket.request.IRequestHandler;
import org.apache.wicket.request.IRequestMapper;
import org.apache.wicket.request.Request;
import org.apache.wicket.request.Url;
import org.apache.wicket.util.IProvider;
import org.apache.wicket.util.crypt.ICrypt;
import org.apache.wicket.util.string.Strings;
public class ListenerInterfaceCryptoMapper
extends CryptoMapper
{
private final String parameterName;
public ListenerInterfaceCryptoMapperCryptoMapper(String
parameterName, IRequestMapper wrappedMapper, Application application)
{
super(wrappedMapper, application);
this.parameterName = parameterName;
}
public ListenerInterfaceCryptoMapper(String parameterName,
IRequestMapper wrappedMapper, IProviderICrypt cryptProvider)
{
super(wrappedMapper, cryptProvider);
this.parameterName = parameterName;
}
@Override
protected Url decryptUrl(Request request, Url encryptedUrl)
{
ListUrl.QueryParameter queryParameters =
encryptedUrl.getQueryParameters();
if (queryParameters.size() == 1){
Url.QueryParameter param = queryParameters.get(0);
if (param.getName().equals(parameterName)
Strings.isEmpty(param.getValue()) == false){
String decodedQueryString =
getCrypt().decryptUrlSafe(param.getValue());
return new Url(encryptedUrl.getSegments(),
Url.parse(decodedQueryString,
encryptedUrl.getCharset()).getQueryParameters(),
encryptedUrl.getCharset());
}
}
return encryptedUrl;
}
@Override
protected Url encryptUrl(Url url)
{
// no encrypting of segments
return url;
}
@Override
public Url mapHandler(IRequestHandler requestHandler)
{
Url url = super.mapHandler(requestHandler);
if (url.getQueryParameters().isEmpty()){
return url;
}
if ((requestHandler instanceof
ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler) || (requestHandler instanceof
BookmarkableListenerInterfaceRequestHandler)){
Url encryptedUrl = new Url(url.getSegments(),
url.getCharset());
encryptedUrl.addQueryParameter(parameterName,
getCrypt().encryptUrlSafe(url.getQueryString()));
return encryptedUrl;
}else{
return url;
}
}
}
On 18/09/2013 14:48, Andreas Kappler wrote:
Thanks for pointing out that ticket. So as I see it, there is
currently no easy way to secure pages from CSRF attacks if they are
mounted. To be honest I find it a bit surprising that no one
contributed a solution for this common problem.
I will probably go for the solution with redirects instead of
mounting pages, it seems to me to be the safest way.
Am 18.09.2013 14:08, schrieb Martin Grigorov:
Check https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-5326
It talks about similar things
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Andreas Kappler
andreas.kapp...@jato-consulting.de wrote:
Hi Martin,
thanks for your answer. I tried that and I am not sure if I did
something
wrong, but still the URLs generated for posting forms are not
encrypted.
For example I have a page that contains a form to change the user's
password and I want the page to be available as /changePassword.
Now if the
user submits the form, the form's action points to
/changePassword?xyz,
which makes it open to CSRF.
Best Regards,
Andreas
Am 18.09.2013 13:09, schrieb Martin Grigorov:
Hi,
You can extend CryptoMapper and setup it as root mapper.
In your custom CryptoMapper you can override Url mapHandler(final
IRequestHandler requestHandler). If the passed requestHandler is
IPageClassRequestHandler then you can call #getPageClass() on it and
decide
whether to encrypt
