Definitely the latter. I don’t think the requirement actually helps secure 
things in practice and artificially limits things otherwise.

 — Justin

> On Jan 27, 2016, at 7:19 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You mean the string comparison on authority section would allow execution of 
> some code? Or are you suggesting that not checking the path portion would 
> allow the attacker to plant something on the other paths on the host? 
> 
> Yes, the later is possible especially when there are user generated content 
> on the same host, and if we are worried on it, we would have to do the 
> discovery. 
> 
> Nat 
> 
> 2016年1月28日(木) 5:45 Justin Richer <jric...@mit.edu <mailto:jric...@mit.edu>>:
> Unless I’m missing something, requiring the authority section to match 
> discounts attackers being able to deploy executable code on a path. This kind 
> of hole was exploited in a number of Facebook hacks. Yes I’m aware that those 
> were dealing with redirect URIs but we’re talking about the same kind of 
> sub-component URI matching here, and I can only see it getting us into 
> trouble.
> 
>  — Justin
> 
> 
>> On Jan 27, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakim...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:sakim...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> yeah. 
>> 
>> But for Google, Microsoft, etc., every RP can whitelist, cannot they? ;-)
>> 
>> Otherwise, for a code phishing attack, you need to implement discovery of 
>> some sort. My thinking before reading your email was: 
>> 
>> if( authority(authz_ep)==authority(token_ep) ) {
>>    get_token(token_ep, code, client_credential);
>> } else {
>>     get_token(token_ep_from_discovery(), code, client_credential);
>> } 
>> 
>> where token_ep_from_discovery() either returns the value of the 
>> toke_endpoint member from .well-known/openid-configuration OR the value of 
>> turi parameter in the query. 
>> 
>> 2016年1月28日(木) 2:03 Brian Campbell <bcampb...@pingidentity.com 
>> <mailto:bcampb...@pingidentity.com>>:
>> There's at least one smallish deployment that has a different authority for 
>> the Authorization Endpoint and the Token Endpoint.
>> 
>> from https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration 
>> <https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration> :
>> 
>> {
>>  "issuer": "https://accounts.google.com <https://accounts.google.com/>",
>>  "authorization_endpoint": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth 
>> <https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth>",
>>  "token_endpoint": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token 
>> <https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token>",
>>  "userinfo_endpoint": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/userinfo 
>> <https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/userinfo>",
>>  "revocation_endpoint": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/revoke 
>> <https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/revoke>",
>>  "jwks_uri": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/certs 
>> <https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/certs>",
>>  ...
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:30 AM, John Bradley <ve7...@ve7jtb.com 
>> <mailto:ve7...@ve7jtb.com>> wrote:
>> It think requiring a common authority segment for the authorization endpoint 
>> and the token endpoint might work in common cases, but there are legitimate 
>> cases where the URI of the Authorization endpoint might be a alias in the 
>> case of multi tenants, all using a common token endpoint.
>> 
>> The larger problem would be the RS, it is not uncommon to have the AS and RS 
>> in different domains,  so with bearer tokens unless you make the same 
>> authority restriction for RS then you are not really stoping the attacker.   
>> They can get the AT by impersonating the RS.
>> 
>> I think trying to enforce a common origin policy over OAuth would be a bad 
>> direction to go.
>> 
>> I understand that it seems like a easy fix on the surface, and it works for 
>> most of the things people are using OAuth for today, but would be quite 
>> limiting over the long term.
>> 
>> John B.
>> > On Jan 27, 2016, at 7:31 AM, sakim...@gmail.com 
>> > <mailto:sakim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Hans,
>> >
>> > Sorry, I mixed up the IdP mix-up attack and the code phishing attack.
>> >
>> > Mandating the Authorization and Token Endpoint being in the same
>> > authority would solve the later without changing the wire protocol.
>> >
>> > For AS mix-up attack, mandating the client to change the redirection 
>> > endpoint
>> > per AS would solve the problem without change the wire protocol.
>> >
>> > If these are not possible, then we would have to look at changing the
>> > wire protocol. The solution that solves the both cases must
>> > provide the token endpoint URI authoritatively, which means
>> > you have to mandate some variation of discovery mandatory.
>> >
>> > Nat
>> >
>> >
>> > At 2016-01-27 17:01  Hans Zandbelt wrote:
>> >> I don't see how that can deal with the specific form of the attack
>> >> where the Client would have sent the authorization request to the
>> >> legitimate authorization endpoint of a compromised AS and believes it
>> >> gets the response from that, where in fact it was redirected away to
>> >> the good AS.
>> >> IOW, I don't think this is so much about mixing up endpoints where to
>> >> send stuff to, but mixing up the entity/endpoint from which the Client
>> >> believes the response was received. That may just be terminology
>> >> though.
>> >> Bottom line as far as I see is that a wire protocol element in the
>> >> response is needed to tell the Client who issued it, regardless of how
>> >> the Client deals with configuration of the AS information.
>> >> Hans.
>> >> On 1/27/16 1:31 AM, Nat Sakimura wrote:
>> >>> So, is there a lot of cases that the authority section of the Good AS's
>> >>> Authorization Endpoint and the Token Endpoints are different?
>> >>> If not, then requiring that they are the same seems to virtually remove
>> >>> the attack surface for the mix-up related attacks. It does not introduce
>> >>> new parameter nor discovery. If it can be done, it probably is not worth
>> >>> adding a new wire protocol element to mitigate the mix-up variants.
>> >
>> >
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