On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 8:34 AM Leszek Swirski <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 5:17 PM 'Łukasz Anforowicz' via v8-dev <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Benefit of full JS parse over a list of known non-JS prefixes: Stricter
>> is-it-JS checking = more non-JS things get blocked = improved security.
>> Still, there is a balance here - some heuristics (like the ones proposed by
>> Daniel) are almost as secure as full JS parse (while being easier to
>> implement and having less of a performance impact).
>>
>
> Makes sense, I'm just asking to make sure that we strike the right balance
> between security improvements and complexity/performance issues; even a JS
> tokenizer without a full parser is quite a complexity investment (it needs
> e.g. a full regexp parser), plus the language grammar is sufficiently broad
> that I expect exhaustively enumerating all possible combinations of even
> just 3-5 tokens to be prohibitively large (setting aside maintainability in
> the face of ever-updating standards).
>
> Do we have a measure of how much non-JS coverage the current heuristics
> give, on real-world examples of JSON files? Or perhaps, a measure of how
> many different prefixes there are that we could blocklist? Do we know at
> what point the improved security has diminishing returns?
>

Examples of a response bodies that we would want to block, but that
wouldn't get blocked without full JS parsing/verification (assume that the
responses below are served as text/html or application/octet-stream):

   - PDF
   - ProtoBuf
   - Microsoft Word
   - CSV files


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Lukasz

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