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May 3, 2014
Chris
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Serious hard-to-fix bug in OAuth and OpenID discovered, lots of major sites affected

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Just a short notice rather than a real article, full story later (I need to check the facts): Several sources are posting about a recently discovered hard-to-fix bug in the extremely popular open-source authentication libraries/services OAuth and OpenID, used by lots of AAA-level sites, from PayPal to Facebook.

 

Articles:
cnet – Serious security flaw in OAuth, OpenID discovered
lifehacker – Security Flaw Found in OAuth and OpenID, Here’s What It Means for You

(german) zdnet – Schwere Sicherheitslücke in OAuth und OpenID entdeckt


Huge info-page by Wang Jing, the guy who has discovered the bug:

http://tetraph.com/covert_redirect/oauth2_openid_covert_redirect.html


YouTube channel (of Wang Jing), showing reproduceable examples (on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google):

https://www.youtube.com/user/tetraph


Info video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUE8VbbwUms


Reproduceable examples (taken from the above YouTube channel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iif6eq2cvso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2-2Scp0pbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyNGBuHNoJ0

 

This article was written quite a while ago (9 years), please keep this in mind when using the information written here. Links, code and commands might be outdated or broken.

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  • slbmeh
    May 9, 2014 6:43 am

    I wouldn’t quite consider it a security issue or a bug. The standards OAuth puts in place performs a request based on a signature prepared by the application generating the URL. Any access being granted is to the application initially signing the request.

    It is indeed a phishing risk, and potentially a design flaw in the spec of the oauth standard. But it’s a simple fix. Add the redirect url to the hmac signature and if the request uri doesn’t match the redirect parameter then bail with a message notifying the user that the signature could not be verified.

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    • Chris
      May 9, 2014 11:47 am

      Thanks, good info in here! Btw I’ve written this before reading into the topic. Most good sources also say it’s not a bug, it’s simply bad implementation of the according companies / developers.

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