Re: [OAUTH-WG] [EXTERNAL] Re: Device Authorization Grant and Illicit Consent Exploits

[George Fletcher <[e-mail]>]

I just want to make a quick comment on the use of "proximity and 
location information". I used the device flow to authorize my son's 
device by having him text me the code so I could login on my device (in 
a different state) and provide his device access. If we close the door 
too much we will potentially impact good users :)

I agree that consent can be socially engineered... but think that it 
would be useful to improve that information so that the user 
authenticating to provide authorization could know where the device 
their authorizing is located. That could help users detecting that they 
are authorizing a device in a location that doesn't make sense to them.

Thanks,
George

On 3/18/22 8:21 AM, Pieter Kasselman wrote:
>
> Hi Brock
>
> Great point, and I would agree that better consent screens could help, 
> but I don’t think it is sufficient.
>
> One of the challenges with consent screens is that it makes 
> assumptions about the users abilities when they are being asked to 
> make decisions about things they do not fully appreciate or 
> understand. In addition, they are in a rush, are often trying to be 
> helpful and prone to grant consent (the framing in these social 
> engineering attacks can be very persuasive). Even users who are aware 
> of these exploits and understand the systems they interact with are 
> prone to be misled. Better guidance on the consent screen is 
> definitely something we should provide.
>
> I do think there is a defence in depth strategy that can reduce risk 
> by (1) avoiding asking the user for a decision by making back-end risk 
> decisions (2) augmenting the information presented to the user when 
> making the decisions and (3) mitigating against a decision made in error.
>
> Proximity and location information can for instance be used to bind 
> user codes to specific locations or inform the user on where the user 
> code was first presented, device status and/or location may be used to 
> make decisions on whether to allow device code flows to be used in the 
> first place and use of token binding (e.g. DPoP) may help defend 
> against attackers who are able to exfiltrate tokens from a device and 
> make lateral attacks.
>
> Anything we can do to encourage implementor to ask users to make fewer 
> decision, help them make better decisions and then protecting them in 
> case of a bad decision will help drive down risk.
>
> Cheers
>
> Pieter
>
> *From:*Brock Allen <[e-mail]>
> *Sent:* Thursday 17 March 2022 21:25
> *To:* Pieter Kasselman <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [OAUTH-WG] Device Authorization Grant and 
> Illicit Consent Exploits
>
> I watched one of those videos and it seems to be that a proper consent 
> screen would have been the best and easiest line of defense. Is there 
> something more to the attacks where a better consent page (or any 
> consent page for that matter) would not have been sufficient?
>
> -Brock
>
>     On 3/17/2022 5:10:35 PM, Pieter Kasselman
>     <pieter.kasselman=[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>     Hi All
>
>     One of the agenda items for IETF 113 is the device authorization
>     grant flow (aka device code flow), scheduled for Thursday 24 March
>     2022.  Before the meeting, I wanted to share a bit more
>     information for those interested in the topic and also give those
>     who are unable to attend in person an opportunity to participate
>     in the conversation.
>
>     The Device Authorization Grant Flow (RFC 8682)
>     <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Frfc8628&data=04%7C01%7Cpieter.kasselman%40microsoft.com%7Cdab129df96fb4fe03c7908da085c8dae%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637831490884440262%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=EswcNYKNZWEAWLBuOvQytd8TMlgpgUxIk0E%2FlfKkRIk%3D&reserved=0>solves
>     an important problem by enabling authorization flows on devices
>     that are unable to support a browsers or have limited input
>     capabilities. However, looking back over the past 18-24 months,
>     there have been a number of practical exploits published that use
>     social engineering techniques applied to the device authorization
>     grant flow.
>
>     The goal of the session at IETF 113 is to discuss the patterns of
>     the exploits that are known and start a conversation on what (if
>     anything) we should do, based on what we are learning.
>
>     These exploits follow a general man-in-the-middle (MITM) pattern,
>     where the attacker:
>
>      1. Initiates the Device Authorization Grant flow on a device
>         under their control,
>      2. Presents the user code in a context that the end-user is
>         likely to act on (using social engineering techniques), and
>      3. Once the user grants access, retrieves the access and refresh
>         tokens and uses them to access the user’s resources.
>
>     Some of the exploits are described here for those interested in
>     more detail:
>
>      1. The Art of the Device Code Phish - Boku (0xboku.com)
>         <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F0xboku.com%2F2021%2F07%2F12%2FArtOfDeviceCodePhish.html&data=04%7C01%7Cpieter.kasselman%40microsoft.com%7Cdab129df96fb4fe03c7908da085c8dae%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637831490884440262%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=%2B71AMxS1m4aBTrX8e76UiXs%2Fa%2F22dfxen1pI9Ln17Ig%3D&reserved=0>
>      2. Microsoft 365 OAuth Device Code Flow and Phishing | Optiv
>         <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.optiv.com%2Finsights%2Fsource-zero%2Fblog%2Fmicrosoft-365-oauth-device-code-flow-and-phishing&data=04%7C01%7Cpieter.kasselman%40microsoft.com%7Cdab129df96fb4fe03c7908da085c8dae%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637831490884440262%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=I6tnZsOgj6fl9aYbfXe98wKf%2B5M7X%2FHEu8Umn3cui7Q%3D&reserved=0>
>
>          1. optiv/Microsoft365_devicePhish: A proof-of-concept script
>             to conduct a phishing attack abusing Microsoft 365 OAuth
>             Authorization Flow (github.com)
>             <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Foptiv%2FMicrosoft365_devicePhish&data=04%7C01%7Cpieter.kasselman%40microsoft.com%7Cdab129df96fb4fe03c7908da085c8dae%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637831490884440262%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=hVXdTbLAkdBXAepI26qG5J3poSzquok1sgUwdLGPNTg%3D&reserved=0>
>
>      3. Introducing a new phishing technique for compromising Office
>         365 accounts (o365blog.com)
>         <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fo365blog.com%2Fpost%2Fphishing%2F%23new-phishing-technique-device-code-authentication&data=04%7C01%7Cpieter.kasselman%40microsoft.com%7Cdab129df96fb4fe03c7908da085c8dae%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637831490884490234%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=KXDXJ8dDBdKxT72jIl8pa2BksAXiKc8N0%2F0NThYiN5Q%3D&reserved=0>
>      4. DEF CON 29 - Jenko Hwong - New Phishing Attacks Exploiting
>         OAuth Authentication Flows - YouTube
>         <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9slRYvpKHp4&data=04%7C01%7Cpieter.kasselman%40microsoft.com%7Cdab129df96fb4fe03c7908da085c8dae%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637831490884490234%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=KWmBAf3pYGdVzT6LeNhgT7t%2BybfnFdGMVJxLbDrD5vo%3D&reserved=0>
>
>     In terms of a response, there are a few options that come to mind
>     (these are not exhaustive, I would love to see what others have in
>     mind as well):
>
>      1. Do nothing: We can choose to leave everything as is. The
>         downside of this is that the lessons we are learning are not
>         getting disseminated or resulting in reduced risks.
>      2. Update the recommendations: We can document the social
>         engineering exploits and recommend some additional mitigations
>         as well as recommendations in terms of use cases. Although
>         these types of "phishing"/social engineering attacks are
>         called out in the security considerations in RFC 8628 - OAuth
>         2.0 Device Authorization Grant
>         <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Frfc8628&data=04%7C01%7Cpieter.kasselman%40microsoft.com%7Cdab129df96fb4fe03c7908da085c8dae%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637831490884490234%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=6YYkNcG2GC32KSDdWU792bkXnr6GQaRen%2F02560aSRA%3D&reserved=0>,
>         we can add further mitigations to create greater defence in
>         depth. This will help future implementers and may even be
>         useful for future protocols that rely on a similar
>         cross-device authentication and authorization flows.
>      3. Explore alternatives: Develop, adopt, or evolve new protocols
>         that address the scenario while mitigating or avoiding the risks.
>
>     Option A does not do much to improve the state of the art. Option
>     B feels like something we can do now, and we may learn something
>     along the way that can help inform Option C, which may be much
>     further down the road and require more research. What other
>     options come to mind?
>
>     I’m looking forward to the conversation and hearing what others
>     are thinking about this topic.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Pieter
>
>
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