> Claimed "https" scheme URIs (RFC 8252, Sec 7.2) can be used to provide some 
> identity guarantees…

Yes, provided that the AS can verify that the claimed URI is a valid URI for 
the identity being asserted by the client. And this identity guarantee would 
apply to an public native app client just as well as one that has established a 
client secret via dynamic client registration.

Section 2.3 of RFC6749<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-2.3> is 
relevant here:

The authorization server MAY establish a client authentication method
with public clients.  However, the authorization server MUST NOT rely
on public client authentication for the purpose of identifying the
client.

--
Annabelle Richard Backman
AWS Identity


From: OAuth <oauth-boun...@ietf.org> on behalf of William Denniss 
<wdenniss=40google....@dmarc.ietf.org>
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 10:49 AM
To: Christian Mainka <Christian.Mainka=40rub...@dmarc.ietf.org>
Cc: oauth <oauth@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Dynamic Client Registration with Native Apps


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 6:03 AM Christian Mainka 
<Christian.Mainka=40rub...@dmarc.ietf.org<mailto:40rub...@dmarc.ietf.org>> 
wrote:
Hi,

thanks for pointing this out!
This was exactly what confused us during reading - the main threat we see and 
which is not addressed is related to the app impersonation attack.
Even PKCE does not help against the app impersonation attack.

Claimed "https" scheme URIs (RFC 8252, Sec 7.2) can be used to provide some 
identity guarantees (security considerations in Sec 8.6), as the OS will only 
open apps that can verify domain ownership to process the redirect. This is 
what I would recommend as a starting point if you want assurances over the 
app's identity.

A spoofing app can still use a web-view to intercept the response that way, but 
in that case they'd also have full access to the session cookie (due to the use 
of webview for the sign-in), which is potentially a more valuable token (i.e. 
you have bigger issues). It does effectively prevent against tokens issued form 
the browser SSO session being intercepted by the wrong app.



So a "Native App + Dynamic Client Registration" can be seen at a different 
"confidentiality level" than a "public client", because every native App can 
dynamically register itself on the IdP.
The IdP cannot distinguish, for example, an honest native client from an 
malicious client starting an app impersonation attack.

We agree that, e.g., a leaked code cannot be redeemed unless you have the 
respective client_id/client_secret.

But... we asked ourselfs, in which cases does a code leak?

1) In the front-channel. In this case, it is true that no client credentials 
leak and an attacker cannot redeem the code.

2) In the back-channel. But if this channel is insecure, you directly get 
client credentials (unless client_secret_jwt is used as pointed out by George).

So, Dynamic Client Registration only helps if the code leaks alone (as in 1.), 
or if it leaks on different levels (e.g. logfiles).

On the opposite site, if Dynamic Registration is available, an attacker can 
very easily do an app impersonation attack by registering on the IdP. To be 
clear, it is not "impersonation" as in the "one secret per software" scenario, 
because different client_id and client_secret is used, but to the best of my 
knowledge, the IdP cannot distinguish between an honest app and an app 
impersonation client that has simply registered.

In addition, if the IdP supports the dynamic client registration:
How can the IdP distinguish between confidential and public/native clients?
With respect to the consent page, which must be shown every time for native 
apps, this is an important issue, which should be addressed properly.

Best Regards
Vladi/Christian

Am 29.11.18 um 00:38 schrieb Richard Backman, Annabelle:

It should be noted that “traditional” confidential clients with registered 
return URLs and server-side secrets may provide a higher degree of confidence 
in the true identity of the client that doesn’t carry over to confidential 
native app clients. A native app instance’s registration call is necessarily 
unauthenticated (for the same reasons that statically registered native app 
clients are public clients), so the Client Impersonation concerns described in 
section 8.6 of 
RFC8252<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8252#section-8.6><https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8252#section-8.6>
 still apply.

--

Annabelle Richard Backman

AWS Identity





From: OAuth <oauth-boun...@ietf.org><mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org> on behalf 
of Filip Skokan <panva...@gmail.com><mailto:panva...@gmail.com>

Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 9:11 AM

To: George Fletcher <gffle...@aol.com><mailto:gffle...@aol.com>

Cc: oauth <oauth@ietf.org><mailto:oauth@ietf.org>

Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Dynamic Client Registration with Native Apps



Apologies, I missed the issued in "issued a shared secret", just reading 
"shared secret" alone is the exact opposite of a per-instance secret. The rest 
is clear and as you say it brings the benefit of the secret never being sent 
over the wire (except during the initial registration via TLS).



Best,

Filip





On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 6:03 PM George Fletcher 
<gffle...@aol.com<mailto:gffle...@aol.com><mailto:gffle...@aol.com><mailto:gffle...@aol.com>>
 wrote:

It's "confidential" in that the shared secret is unique to that app instance 
registration (as Dennis described in his response). If an attacker gets my 
phone and compromises the data stored on my device, they only get the secret 
for my device. This is no different than a server side client having their 
client secret compromised through an attack (and in some ways is better because 
it's instance specific).



The main point I was trying to make, is that the 'client_secret_jwt' method 
allows the client to never send the shared secret across the wire as is created 
in the default OAuth2 HTTP Basic Authentication method.



Thanks,

George

On 11/28/18 11:03 AM, Filip Skokan wrote:

Hi George,



#2 doesn't seem confidential, it's still a secret shared amongst installations 
and anyone reverse engineering the apk, extracting the secret, can form the 
client_secret_jwt client_assertion with it just fine.



Best,

Filip



On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:48 PM George Fletcher 
<gffletch=40aol....@dmarc.ietf.org<mailto:gffletch=40aol....@dmarc.ietf.org><mailto:40aol....@dmarc.ietf.org><mailto:40aol....@dmarc.ietf.org>>
 wrote:

In addition, a few additional patterns are enabled...



1. The native app can generate a public/private key pair and then use 
private_secret_jwt as the client credential validation method via the client 
credentials flow (defined in OpenID Connect).



2. Maybe more simply, if the native app is issued a shared secret, the app can 
use client_secret_jwt method for client authentication which ensures the shared 
secret never leaves the device. (Again defined in the OpenID Connect spec).



3. Once the native app instance has credentials, they can be used for 
additional securing of app API transactions in addition to just the 
OAuth2/OpenID Connect flows.



Thanks,

George

On 11/27/18 3:28 PM, William Denniss wrote:

If the secret is dynamically provisioned then you have a confidential client. 
Anyone reverse engineering their own installation of the native app would only 
extract their own client's credentials, as opposed to the shared secret of all 
installations. Having a confidential client means that requests to the token 
endpoint (code, refresh) are client authenticated, so PKCE wouldn't be needed.



On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:44 AM, Christian Mainka 
<Christian.Mainka=40rub...@dmarc.ietf..org<mailto:Christian.Mainka=40rub...@dmarc.ietf..org><mailto:Christian.Mainka=40rub...@dmarc.ietf.org><mailto:Christian.Mainka=40rub...@dmarc.ietf.org>>
 wrote:

Hi,



we just stumbled upon this [1] statement:

"Except when using a mechanism like Dynamic Client Registration

   [RFC7591] to provision per-instance secrets, native apps are

   classified as public clients ..."



What does this mean for us? Native App + Dynamic Client Registration =

Confidential Client?

Which threats are covered if Dynamic Client Registration is used on

Native Apps?



Best Regards,

Vladi/Christian



[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8252#section-8.4



--

Dr.-Ing. Christian Mainka

Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security

Chair for Network and Data Security

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany



Universitätsstr. 150, ID 2/463

D-44801 Bochum, Germany



Telefon: +49 (0) 234 / 32-26796

Fax: +49 (0) 234 / 32-14347

http://nds.rub.de/chair/people/cmainka/

@CheariX





_______________________________________________

OAuth mailing list

OAuth@ietf.org<mailto:OAuth@ietf.org><mailto:OAuth@ietf.org><mailto:OAuth@ietf.org>

https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth









_______________________________________________



OAuth mailing list



OAuth@ietf.org<mailto:OAuth@ietf.org><mailto:OAuth@ietf.org><mailto:OAuth@ietf.org>



https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth



_______________________________________________

OAuth mailing list

OAuth@ietf.org<mailto:OAuth@ietf.org><mailto:OAuth@ietf.org><mailto:OAuth@ietf.org>

https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth







_______________________________________________



OAuth mailing list



OAuth@ietf.org<mailto:OAuth@ietf.org><mailto:OAuth@ietf.org><mailto:OAuth@ietf.org>



https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth<https://www..ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth><https://www..ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth>





_______________________________________________

OAuth mailing list

OAuth@ietf.org<mailto:OAuth@ietf.org>

https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth

--

Dr.-Ing. Christian Mainka

Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security

Chair for Network and Data Security

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany



Universitätsstr. 150, ID 2/463

D-44801 Bochum, Germany



Telefon: +49 (0) 234 / 32-26796

Fax: +49 (0) 234 / 32-14347

http://nds.rub.de/chair/people/cmainka/

@CheariX
_______________________________________________
OAuth mailing list
OAuth@ietf.org<mailto:OAuth@ietf.org>
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
_______________________________________________
OAuth mailing list
OAuth@ietf.org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth

Reply via email to