Re: [OAUTH-WG] Same Origin Method Execution (SOME)

[Nat Sakimura <[e-mail]>]

Year, from my skimming of the paper, it requires a page that executes
arbitrary callback function given as a parameter.
It is absolutely stupid to do it, but apparently there are such pages.
Prime candidate happens to be OAuth Redirection Endpoint.
By itself, it probably will not do much harm because you cannot do much
things in that window itself,
but if the window is a pop-up and keeps a parent context, it will
essentially be able to
remote control the parent window to do much more harm.

So, it is not OAuth problem per se.

However, it may be worthwhile to tell the developers to make sure that
redirection endpoint
accepts only valid oauth payload, and do not execute anything in the
parameter.

Nat

2015-06-25 19:48 GMT+09:00 Antonio Sanso <[e-mail]>:

>  hi John
>
>  On Jun 25, 2015, at 1:42 AM, John Bradley <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info,
>
> As I read it, this is an attack on Java Script callbacks.
>
> The information tying it to OAuth is not clear.
>
> Is the issue relating to JS people using the implicit flow and the JS
> loaded from the client somehow being vulnerable?
>
> Or is this happening in the JS after authorization in calls to other
> resources from the same origin, and it is just coincidence that people are
> using OAuth.
>
>
>  is more the second one :) Extrapolating from the white paper [0]
>
>  "The most common technique tasked with fullling
> the above described need is OAuth. In order to gain access to third-party
> resources
> using OAuth, the service shall utilize a third-party endpoint (OAuth
> dialog) that will
> ask for the resource owner's approval. The problem with this process is
> that redirecting
> the service to an OAuth dialog means losing the content of the currently
> open service
> document. For overcoming this problem, developers open a pop-up window to
> display
> the dialog in a singular browsing context. Once the user permits or denies
> access to
> the service, the OAuth dialog pop-up will be redirected to render a
> callback endpoint
> hosted on the service domain. This document should eventually notify the
> service that
> the process has been completed.
> For the new pop-up window to notify the service window upon approval,
> denial or for
> it to transfer access tokens or similar data, developers may implement
> callback endpoints
> that use a script referencing the "opener" window for executing a callback
> method of the
> service. When developers also opted for providing the service with the
> decision on how
> to "call it back" through a callback parameter, the entire domain becomes
> vulnerable to
> SOME."
>
>  regards
>
>  antonio
>
>  [0] http://files.benhayak.com/Same_Origin_Method_Execution__paper.pdf
>
>
> Understanding if there is any Oauth specific advice to give would be
> helpful.   I see there are ways to prevent the SOME exploit.
>
> Regards
> John B.
>
>
> On Jun 24, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Antonio Sanso <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> hi *, just sharing.
>
> Not directly related to OAuth per se but it exploits several OAuth client
> endpoints due to some common developers pattern
> http://www.benhayak.com/2015/06/same-origin-method-execution-some.html
> (concrete example in
> http://www.benhayak.com/2015/05/stealing-private-photo-albums-from-Google.html
> )
>
> regards
>
> antonio
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