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Konstantin Haase
August 09, 2013
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Distill: Death to Cookies
Konstantin Haase
August 09, 2013
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Transcript
Death to Cookies Konstantin Haase @konstantinhaase
story time
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once upon a time
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Recipetastic™
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Bob Alice
Bob Alice
Bob Alice Eve
Bob Alice Mallet
problem solved
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POST /login HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Content-Length: 44
[email protected]
& password=st0p%20Motion
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: user=bob <html> ...
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Cookie: user=bob
Guessing
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: user=bob Set-Cookie: pwd=... <html>
...
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Cookie: user=bob,pwd=...
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Cookie: user=bob,pwd=... Basic Auth, just
with cookies
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: user=bob Set-Cookie: token=... <html>
...
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XSS Cross Site Scripting
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can read cookie and send it somewhere
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: user=bob; HttpOnly <html> ...
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can read (and write) recipes
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sanitize all user input
Content Security Policy
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CSRF Cross Site Request Forgery
Is this awesome, y/n?
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GET /create?… HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Cookie: user=alice
GET /create?… HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Cookie: user=alice Deadly cookies!
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GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE PUT, DELETE, LINK, UNLINK POST, PATCH
1 2 PUT / 2 PUT / 2 Repeatable! :)
State change! :( Deterministic! :) https://speakerdeck.com/rkh/we-dont-know-http
GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE PUT, DELETE, LINK, UNLINK POST, PATCH
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POST /create HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Cookie: user=alice ...
POST /create HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Cookie: user=alice ... Deadly cookies!
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POST /create HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Referer: http://awesome- website.com/ Cookie: user=alice
POST /create HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Referer: http://awesome- website.com/ Cookie: user=alice
[sic]
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Referer is not set for FTP or HTTPS referrers
Referer can be spoofed by outdated flash plugin
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POST /create HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Origin: http://awesome- website.com Cookie: user=alice
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Not supported by older browsers
Origin can probably be spoofed by outdated flash plugin
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: csrf_token=XXX
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Cheating Same Origin
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json
An attacker could just load it, right?
AJAX can only load from the same origin (or CORS)
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seems harmless
In JavaScript, you can override the array constructor.
https://github.com/rkh/json-csrf
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Never serve JSON that has an array at top level
(or don’t use cookies)
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VBScript did not fully implement Same Origin
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Block Internet Explorer before IE9
Block Internet Explorer before IE9
require CSRF token for all AJAX requests
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Are we doing good so far?
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Can we trust a cookie?
DNS cache poisoning
Can we trust the browser?
Can we trust browser plugins?
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Signed Cookies
Encrypted Cookies
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Eaves- dropping
encrypting cookies does not help
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attacker cannot parse cookie from stream
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Or can they?
BEAST Browser Exploit Against SSL/ TLS
decrypts TLS 1.0 streams via injected JavaScript
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fixed in TLS 1.1
force recent browser
don’t allow TLS 1.0
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CRIME Compression Ratio Info-leak Made Easy
SSL has built-in compression
GET /?user=alice HTTP/1.1 Host: www.recipetast.ic Cookie: user=bob GET /?user=bob HTTP/1.1
Host: www.recipetast.ic Cookie: user=bob better compression
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update your browser
turn off SSL compression
append random number of bytes to response
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BREACH Browser Reconnaissance and Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext
like CRIME, but for the response
attack the CSRF token, not the cookie
inject something in the response http://www.recipetast.ic/search?q=XXX
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mask CSRF tokens differently in every response (Rails PR pending)
don’t use CSRF tokens
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Do you think about all this when you build an
app?
Next attack vector around the corner?
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Alternatives
IP address
Session ID in URL
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Custom Authorization header
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Store value in Local Storage
Needs JavaScript :(
Works well with PJAX/ Turbo Links like setups
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New Browser Concepts?
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