OAuth Security Topics
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Open Authentication Protocol T. Lodderstedt, Ed.
Internet-Draft YES Europe AG
Intended status: Best Current Practice J. Bradley
Expires: September 29, 2017 Ping Identity
A. Labunets
Facebook
March 30, 2017
OAuth Security Topics
draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-02
Abstract
This draft gives a comprehensive overview on open OAuth security
topics. It is intended to serve as a working document for the OAuth
working group to systematically capture and discuss these security
topics and respective mitigations and eventually recommend best
current practice and also OAuth extensions needed to cope with the
respective security threats.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Recommended Best Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Protecting redirect-based flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. TBD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Recommended modifications and extensions to OAuth . . . . . . 4
4. OAuth Credentials Leakage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1. Insufficient redirect URI validation . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1.1. Attacks on Authorization Code Grant . . . . . . . . . 5
4.1.2. Attacks on Implicit Grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1.3. Proposed Countermeasures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2. Authorization code leakage via referrer headers . . . . . 9
4.2.1. Proposed Countermeasures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3. Attacks in the Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3.1. Code in browser history (TBD) . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3.2. Access token in browser history (TBD) . . . . . . . . 10
4.3.3. Javascript Code stealing Access Tokens (TBD) . . . . . 10
4.4. Dynamic OAuth Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.4.1. Access Token Phishing by Counterfeit Resource Server . 10
4.4.2. Mix-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5. OAuth Credentials Injection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.1. Code Injection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.1.1. Proposed Countermeasures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.1.2. Access Token Injection (TBD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.1.3. XSRF (TBD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6. Other Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. Other Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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