Re: [OAUTH-WG] First Draft of OAuth 2.1

[Dominick Baier <[e-mail]>]

Off the top of my head, rotation is useful for 2 things

* reducing the likelihood that an “old” refresh token is still valid (e.g.
“found” on some device, log file, source code etc...)
* being able to revoke all the active refresh tokens if a refresh token is
used twice

..and yes it introduces a higher chance of false positives.

https://leastprivilege.com/2020/01/21/hardening-refresh-tokens/

But I agree with the spec - if the refresh token cannot be bound to a
client by a secret (looking at you, SPAs) - it should be hardened using
sliding expiration, rotation and replay detection. Maybe the wording needs
to be clearer.

———
Dominick Baier

On 12. March 2020 at 23:15:19, Vittorio Bertocci (
vittorio=[e-mail]) wrote:

Rotation can be used to detect leakage, right? Client credentials offer
more guarantees, but unless you are using private JWTs with a non
exportable certificate as client cred, a classic client secret _could_
technically leak. Having rotation would alert you if someone got a hold on
those. Admittedly it’s a stretch, but not entirely inconceivable.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 13:57 Torsten Lodderstedt <torsten=
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Then why are you rotating refresh tokens?
>
> Am 12.03.2020 um 20:48 schrieb Pedro Igor Silva <psilva@redhat..com
> <[e-mail]>>:
>
> 
> A confidential client, as per the `web application` definition in Section
> `2.1.  Client Types`.
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:39 PM Torsten Lodderstedt <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Is that a public client?
>>
>> Am 12.03.2020 um 20:32 schrieb Pedro Igor Silva <[e-mail]>:
>>
>> 
>> I agree with you and recently, we had to deal with an issue where a `web
>> application` using rotation (as defined by the draft) was having issues to
>> refresh tokens due to multiple concurrent requests at the moment a token is
>> about to expire or already expired.. We had to add some controls to deal
>> with concurrency and additional complexity + performance penalties. And for
>> such clients, I was not sure whether or not rotation makes sense.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:05 PM Vittorio Bertocci <Vittorio=
>> [e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the clarification, Torsten.
>>> I believe it's the first time I see use of client credentials positioned
>>> as sender constraint; if the intent is saying that confidential clients
>>> should use their credentials when redeeming refresh tokens, I am of course
>>> in agreement but I think the language should be clearer and state the above
>>> explicitly.
>>>
>>> Re: failure frequency, I know of scenarios were the designers added
>>> rotation by default, and after a while it was turned to opt in because of
>>> the frequency of errors and impact on user experience/call center.
>>> I really believe that putting this as a MUST is justified only for
>>> exceedingly vulnerable situations, like SPAs.
>>> Native/desktop clients should be free to decide whether they want to opt
>>> in without loosing compliance. Just my 2 C
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:58 AM Torsten Lodderstedt <torsten=
>>> [e-mail]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> sender constraining refresh tokens for confidential client means client
>>>> authentication + check the binding of the refresh token with the respective
>>>> client id. I don’t think this is new as RFC6759 already required ASs to
>>>> check this binding. Assuming backends are generally confidential clients
>>>> also means no rotation and no cache synchronization needed.
>>>>
>>>> Rotation should be used for frontends, e.g. native apps and only if
>>>> there is there no other option. If a refresh fails, the app must go through
>>>> the authorization process again. That’s inconvenient so the question is how
>>>> often this happens. What I can say, I have never seen customer complaining
>>>> in several years of operation of ASs with refresh token rotation (including
>>>> replay detection) for native apps with millions of users.
>>>>
>>>> best regards,
>>>> Torsten.
>>>>
>>>> Am 12.03..2020 um 19:24 schrieb Vittorio Bertocci <Vittorio=
>>>> [e-mail]..org <[e-mail]>>:
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>> thanks for putting this together.
>>>> I am concerned with the real world impact of imposing sender
>>>> constraint | rotation as a MUST on refresh tokens in every scenario.
>>>> Sender constraint isn't immediately actionable - we just had the
>>>> discussion for dPOP, hence I won't go in the details here.
>>>> Rotation isn't something that can be added without significant impact
>>>> on development and runtime experiences:
>>>>
>>>>    - on distributed scenarios, it introduces the need to serialize
>>>>    access to shared caches
>>>>    - network failures can lead to impact on experience- stranding
>>>>    clients which fail to receive RTn+1 during RTn redemption in a limbo where
>>>>    user interaction might become necessary, disrupting experience or
>>>>    functionality for scenarios where the user isn't available to respond.
>>>>    -
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 5:28 PM Aaron Parecki <aaron@parecki..com
>>>> <[e-mail]>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm happy to share that Dick and Torsten and I have published a first
>>>>> draft of OAuth 2.1. We've taken the feedback from the discussions on
>>>>> the list and incorporated that into the draft.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-parecki-oauth-v2-1-01
>>>>>
>>>>> A summary of the differences between this draft and OAuth 2.0 can be
>>>>> found in section 12, and I've copied them here below.
>>>>>
>>>>> > This draft consolidates the functionality in OAuth 2.0 (RFC6749),
>>>>> > OAuth 2.0 for Native Apps (RFC8252), Proof Key for Code Exchange
>>>>> > (RFC7636), OAuth 2.0 for Browser-Based Apps
>>>>> > (I-D.ietf-oauth-browser-based-apps), OAuth Security Best Current
>>>>> > Practice (I-D.ietf-oauth-security-topics), and Bearer Token Usage
>>>>> > (RFC6750).
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   Where a later draft updates or obsoletes functionality found in the
>>>>> >   original [RFC6749], that functionality in this draft is updated
>>>>> with
>>>>> >   the normative changes described in a later draft, or removed
>>>>> >   entirely.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   A non-normative list of changes from OAuth 2.0 is listed below:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   *  The authorization code grant is extended with the functionality
>>>>> >      from PKCE ([RFC7636]) such that the only method of using the
>>>>> >      authorization code grant according to this specification
>>>>> requires
>>>>> >      the addition of the PKCE mechanism
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   *  Redirect URIs must be compared using exact string matching as
>>>>> per
>>>>> >      Section 4.1.3 of [I-D.ietf-oauth-security-topics]
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   *  The Implicit grant ("response_type=token") is omitted from this
>>>>> >      specification as per Section 2.1.2 of
>>>>> >      [I-D.ietf-oauth-security-topics]
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   *  The Resource Owner Password Credentials grant is omitted from
>>>>> this
>>>>> >      specification as per Section 2.4 of
>>>>> >      [I-D.ietf-oauth-security-topics]
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   *  Bearer token usage omits the use of bearer tokens in the query
>>>>> >      string of URIs as per Section 4.3.2 of
>>>>> >      [I-D.ietf-oauth-security-topics]
>>>>> >
>>>>> >   *  Refresh tokens must either be sender-constrained or one-time use
>>>>> >      as per Section 4.12.2 of [I-D.ietf-oauth-security-topics]
>>>>>
>>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-parecki-oauth-v2-1-01#section-12
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm excited for the direction this is taking, and it has been a
>>>>> pleasure working with Dick and Torsten on this so far. My hope is that
>>>>> this first draft can serve as a good starting point for our future
>>>>> discussions!
>>>>>
>>>>> ----
>>>>> Aaron Parecki
>>>>> aaronparecki.com
>>>>> @aaronpk
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. This notice was also posted at
>>>>> https://aaronparecki.com/2020/03/11/14/oauth-2-1
>>>>>
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