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Attack Patterns for Black-Box Security Testing of Multi-Party Web Applications Avinash Sudhodanan Alessandro Armando Roberto Carbone Luca Compagna University of Trento, Italy DIBRIS, University of Genova Security & Trust, FBK, Italy SAP Labs France Security & Trust, FBK, Italy Security & Trust, FBK, Italy carbone@fbk.eu luca.compagna@sap.com 6.avinash@gmail.com armando@fbk.eu Abstract—The advent of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has led User (through a web browser B), the web application (playing to the development of multi-party web applications (MPWAs). the role of Service Provider, SP), and a trusted third party MPWAs rely on core trusted third-party systems (e.g., payment (TTP). servers, identity providers) and protocols such as Cashier-as-a- Service (CaaS), Single Sign-On (SSO) to deliver business services The design and implementation of the protocols used by to users. Motivated by the large number of attacks discovered security-critical MPWAs are notoriously error-prone. Several against MPWAs and by the lack of a single general-purpose vulnerabilities have been reported in the last few years. For application-agnostic technique to support their discovery, we instance, the incorrect handling of the OAuth 2.0 access token propose an automatic technique based on attack patterns for by a vulnerable SP can be exploited by an attacker hosting black-box, security testing of MPWAs. Our approach stems from the observation that attacks against popular MPWAs share a another SP [38]. If the victim User logs into the attacker’s number of similarities, even if the underlying protocols and SP, the attacker obtains an access token (issued by TTP) from services are different. In this paper, we target six different the victim and can replay it in the vulnerable SP to login replay attacks, a login CSRF attack and a persistent XSS as the victim. A similar attack was previously discovered in attack. Firstly, we propose a methodology in which security the SAML-based implementation deployed by Google [23]. experts can create attack patterns from known attacks. Secondly, (Here the SAML authentication assertion is replayed instead we present a security testing framework that leverages attack of the OAuth 2.0 access token.) Similar attacks have also been patterns to automatically generate test cases for testing the detected in CaaS-enabled scenarios [35], [32]. For instance, a security of MPWAs. We implemented our ideas on top of OWASP vulnerability in osCommerce v2.3.1 that allowed an attacker ZAP (a popular, open-source penetration testing tool), created to shop for free has been reported in [32]: the attacker controls seven attack patterns that correspond to thirteen prominent attacks from the literature and discovered twenty one previously a SP and obtains an account identifier from PayPal for paying unknown vulnerabilities in prominent MPWAs (e.g., twitter.com, herself; later on, she replays this value in a subsequent session developer.linkedin.com, pinterest.com), including MPWAs that do with a vulnerable SP where she purchases a product by paying not belong to SSO and CaaS families. herself. Recently, a token fixation attack in PayPal Express Checkout flow was discovered [18] which is very similar to I. I NTRODUCTION the session fixation attack in OAuth 1.0 [10]. The problem is exacerbated by the large number of deployments. As a matter An increasing number of business critical, online applica- of fact, over 20% of the top twenty-thousand Alexa top US tions leverage trusted third parties in conjunction with web- websites have a vulnerable implementation of the Facebook based security protocols to meet their security needs. For SSO [40]. instance, many online applications rely on authentication as- sertions issued by identity providers to authenticate users using The aforementioned attacks have been discovered through a variety of web-based single sign-on (SSO) protocols (e.g., a variety of domain-specific techniques with different levels of SAML SSO v2.0, OpenID Connect). Similarly, online shop- complexity, ranging from formal verification [23], white-box ping applications use online payment services and Cashier-as- analysis [35], black-box testing [32], to manual testing [18]. a-Service (CaaS) protocols to obtain proof-of-payment before In this paper, we pursue a different approach and propose delivering the purchased items (e.g., Express Checkout [11] an automatic black-box testing technique for security-critical and PayPal Payment Standard [12]). We refer to this broad MPWAs. Our approach is based on an observation and a class of protocols as security-critical Multi-Party Web Appli- conjecture. The observation is that, regardless of their purpose, cations (MPWAs). Three entities take part in the protocols: the the security protocols at the core of MPWAs share a number of features: 1) By interacting with SP (and/or TTP), User authenti- Permission to freely reproduce all or part of this paper for noncommercial purposes is granted provided that copies bear this notice and the full citation cates and/or authorizes some actions, on the first page. Reproduction for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited 2) TTP (SP, resp.) generates a security token, without the prior written consent of the Internet Society, the first-named author 3) the security token is dispatched to SP (TTP, resp.) (for reproduction of an entire paper only), and the author’s employer if the through the web browser, and paper was prepared within the scope of employment. 4) SP (TTP, resp.) checks the security token and com- NDSS ’16, 21-24 February 2016, San Diego, CA, USA Copyright 2016 Internet Society, ISBN 1-891562-41-X pletes the protocol by taking some security-critical http://dx.doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2016.23286 decisions. The conjecture is that the attacks found in the literature (and eight out of the top Alexa global 500 websites2 are possibly many more still to be discovered) are instances of a vulnerable to login CSRF attacks. limited number attack patterns. We conducted a detailed study 4) We have developed a fully functional prototype of of attacks discovered in MPWAs of real-world complexity our approach on OWASP ZAP, a widely-used open- and analyzed their similarities. This led us to identify a source penetration testing tool. The tool is available small number of application-independent attack patterns that online (upon request) at the companion website.3 concisely describe the actions performed by attackers while 5) We have been able to identify 11 previously unknown performing these attacks. vulnerabilities in security-critical MPWAs leveraging To assess the generality and the effectiveness of our the SSO and CaaS protocols of LinkedIn, Facebook, approach, we have developed a security testing framework Instagram, PayPal, and Stripe. based on OWASP ZAP1 , a popular open-source penetration Structure of the paper. In Section II, we introduce some back- testing tool, and run it against a number of prominent MPWA ground information about MPWAs and details about various implementations. Our tool has been able to identify: attacks from the literature. The idea of creating attack patterns • two previously unknown attacks against websites in- from concrete attacks is explained in Section III. In Section IV tegrating LinkedIn’s Javascript API-based SSO that we show how the attack patterns we defined can be used causes an access token replay attack and a persistent to carry out black-box testing of MPWAs. In Section V, XSS attack; we provide some details about our prototype implementation. • a previously unknown redirection URI fixation attack We discuss the experimental evaluation in Section VI. In against the implementation of the OAuth 2.0 protocol Section VII we discuss the related work and in Section VIII in PayPal’s “Log in with PayPal” SSO solution which we discuss the limitations of our approach. We conclude in allows a network attacker to steal the authorization Section IX with some final remarks. code of the victim and replay it to login as the victim in any SP website using the same SSO solution; II. BACKGROUND • a previously unknown attack in the payment checkout Figure 1 provides pictorial representations of example solution offered by Stripe (integrated in over 17,000 MPWAs leveraging SSO, CaaS, and Verification via Email websites [15]); the attack allows an attacker to imper- (VvE) solutions. They all feature (i) a user U, operating a sonate a SP to obtain a token from the victim User browser B, who wants to consume a service from a service which is subsequently used to shop at the imperson- provider SP and (ii) a service provider SP that relies on a ated SP’s online shop using the victim’s credit card; trusted-third-party TTP to deliver its services. TLS (and valid and certificates at TTP and SP) are used to securely exchange • seven previously unknown vulnerabilities in a num- messages. ber of websites (e.g., developer.linkedin.com, pin- Figure 1a shows the SAML 2.0 SSO protocol [30], where terest.com, websta.me) leveraging the SSO solutions SP relies on TTP (the Identity Provider, IdP for short) to offered by LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. authenticate a user U before granting the user access to one Besides the SSO and the CaaS scenarios, we investigated a of its resources. The protocol starts (steps 1-2) with U asking popular family of MPWAs, namely the Verificaton Via Email SP for a resource located at URI SP. SP in turn redirects B (VvE) scenario, which is often used by websites to send to IdP with the authentication request AuthRequest (step 3). security-sensitive information to users via email. By testing the The RelayState field carries URI SP. IdP then challenges B security of Alexa Top 500 websites we found that a number to provide valid credentials that are entered by U (steps 4-6). of prominent websites such as twitter.com, open.sap.com are If the authentication succeeds, IdP issues a digitally signed vulnerable to login CSRF attacks. The following are the main authentication assertion (AuthAssert) and instructs the user contributions of this paper: to sent it (along with the RelayState) to the SP (step 7). 1) We show that the attack strategies behind thirteen SP checks the assertion and delivers the requested resource prominent MPWA attacks can be represented using (step 8). A severe man-in-the-middle attack against the SAML- seven attack patterns, and these attack patterns are based SSO for Google Apps was reported [23]. The attack, general enough to discover similar attacks in MPWAs due to a deviation from the standard whereby AuthAssert implementing different protocols and in different did not include the identity of SP (for which the assertion was MPWA scenarios. For instance, an attack pattern created), allowed a malicious agent hosting a SP (say SP M ) inspired by various SSO attacks from the literature to reuse AuthAssert to access the resource of the victim U was able to automatically discover a new attack in (say U V ) stored at Google, the target SP (say SP T ). More in the CaaS scenario. detail, after a session S1 of the protocol involving U V and 2) The idea that prior attacks proposed on SSO and CaaS SP M , in which SP M receives the AuthAssert from U V , the share commonalities is not new [39], [29]. However, malicious agent starts another session S2 playing the role U M ours is the first black-box security testing approach and mischievously reuses the assertion obtained in S1 in S2 that has experimental evidence of applicability in both to trick Google (SP T ) into believing he is U V . SSO and CaaS domains. Figure 1b illustrates a typical MPWA running the PayPal 3) Prior work on security analysis of MPWAs is focused Payments Standard CaaS protocol [12] where TTP authorizes only on SSO and CaaS scenarios. We evaluate the U to purchase a product P at SP. Here, TTP is a Payment MPWA scenario in which websites send security- Service Provider (PSP) played by PayPal. SP is identified by sensitive information to users via email and show that 2 http://www.alexa.com/topsites 1 www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project 3 https://sites.google.com/site/mpwaprobe/ 2 (a) SAML-based SSO (b) PayPal Payments Standard CaaS (c) Email notification and acknowledgment Fig. 1: Typical MPWA scenarios PayPal through a merchant account identifier (P ayeeId). U reset. For generality, we refer to this scenario as Verification places an order for purchasing P (steps 1-5). SP sends the via Email (in short, VvE). P ayeeId, the cost of the product (Cost) and a return URI Quite surprisingly, prominent SPs (e.g., twitter.com) do not (ReturnU RI) to TTP by redirecting B (step 6). By interacting properly perceive and/or manage the risk associated to the with PSP, U authorizes the payment of the amount to SP (steps security-sensitive URIs sent via email to their users. It turns out 7-9). The transaction identifier (TransactionId) is generated by that some of these URIs give direct access to sensitive services PSP and passed to SP by redirecting B to ReturnURI (step 10). skipping any authentication step. For instance, when a user The TransactionId is then submitted by SP to TTP to get has not signed into twitter for more than 10 days, twitter.com the details of the transaction (steps 11-12). Upon successful sends emails to the user about the tweets the user missed verification of the transaction details, SP sends U the status of and this email contains security-sensitive URIs that directly the purchase order (step 13). authenticates the user without asking for credentials. Such a A serious vulnerability in the integration of the PayPal URL can be used by an attacker to silently authenticate a Payments Standard protocol in osCommerce v2.3.1 and Aban- victim to an attacker controlled twitter account. This attack teCart v1.0.4 that allowed a malicious party to shop for free is widely known as login CSRF. was discovered in [32]. The attack is as follows: from a session S1 of the protocol involving the PSP and the malicious A. Attacks party controlling both a user (U M ) and a SP (SP M ), the Table I presents ten prominent attacks that were discovered malicious party obtains a payee (merchant) identifier. Later, in in literature on SSO- and CaaS-based MPWAs. It includes the checkout protocol session S2 between U M and the target the two attacks mentioned above (excluding login CSRF in SP (SP T ), the malicious agent replays the value of PayeeId twitter), corresponding to #1 for SAML SSO, and #3 for obtained in the other session and manages to place an order PayPal Payments Standard. We do not consider here XSS and for a product in SP T by paying herself (instead of SP T ). XML rewriting attacks (see Section VII for details). Hereafter, While MPWAs for SSO and CaaS scenarios received a we briefly describe the other attacks. considerable attention (see, e.g., [29], [34], [35], [37], [36], #2: The attacker hosts SP M to obtain the AccessT oken [39], [32]), there are several other security critical MPWAs that issued by the TTP Facebook for authenticating U V in SP M . are in need of close scrutiny. For instance, websites often send The very same AccessT oken is replayed against SP T to security-sensitive URIs to their users via email for verification authenticate as U V . purposes. This scenario occurs very frequently for account #4: The attacker completes a transaction T1 at SP T , and registration: an account activation link is sent via email to the order id (OrderId), issued by the TTP PayPal for com- the user who is asked to access her email and click on the pleting this transaction, is reused by the attacker to complete link contained in the email message. An illustration of this another transaction T2 at SP M without payment. scenario is provided in Figure 1c. Here, TTP is a mailbox #5: The attacker completes a transaction T1 at SP T and provider MP that guarantees SP that a user U is in control of the payment T oken issued by the TTP PayPal for completing a given email address (Email). During registration, U provides this transaction is reused by the attacker to complete another Email to SP (steps 1-5). SP sends the account activation URI transaction T2 at SP M without payment. In [32], the interaction (ActLink) via email to U, when U visits her inbox at MP with PayPal was completely skipped during T2 . Here, we focus he gets access to ActLink (steps 6-12) and by clicking it, the on the replay attack strategy used. status of the account activation is loaded in U’s browser (steps #6: The attacker spoofs the AppId of SP T in the 13-15). This scenario is not just limited to account activation session between U V and SP M to obtain AccessT oken of U V . as the same process is followed by many SPs to verify the The very same AccessT oken is then replayed by the attacker authenticity of security-critical operations such as password in a session between SP T and U M to authenticate as U V at SP T . In [36], a logic flaw in flash was applied to capture the 3 AccessT oken. Here, we focus on the replay attack strategy • REPLAY x FROM S1 IN S2 : indicating that the used. value of the HTTP element x extracted while exe- #7: Initially, the attacker obtains an authentication cuting session S1 is replayed into session S2 ; assertion (AuthAssert) from the session between U M and • REPLACE x WITH v IN R: denoting that the HTTP SP T . Then the attacker forces victim’s browser to submit element x (e.g., SID) is replaced with the value v AuthAssert to SP T to silently authenticate U V as U M at SP T . (e.g., abcd1234) while executing the sequence of #8: The attacker obtains the value of AuthCode during HTTP requests R; and the session between U M and SP T . The attacker forces U V ’s • REQUEST-OF x FROM R: indicating the extraction browser to submit this value to SP T to silently authenticate of the HTTP request transporting the HTTP element U V as U M at SP T . x while executing the sequence of HTTP requests R. #9: The attacker replaces the value of RedirectU RI to a malicious URI (M ALICIOUS URI) in the session between U V For the sake of simplicity, we present in the overall paper the and SP M . TTP sends AuthCode of U V to M ALICIOUS URI replay of a single element, but our attack patterns actually and the attacker obtains it. The AuthCode is then replayed support simultaneous replay of combinations of elements. By in the session between U M and SP T to authenticate as U V at abusing the notation, we use (U, SP) in place of R to indicate SP T . the sequence of HTTP requests underlying the session (U, SP). #10: The attacker replaces the value of RedirectU RI The attack strategies corresponding to the attacks described to a malicious URI (M ALICIOUS URI) in the session between in Table I are given in Table II. U V and SP M . TTP sends AccessT oken of U V to M ALI - In attack strategy #1 (and #2), the attacker runs a session CIOUS URI and the attacker obtains it. The AccessT oken with the victim user U V playing the role of the service provider is then replayed in the session between U M and SP T to SP M and replays AuthAssert (AccessT oken, resp.) into a authenticate as U V at SP T . new session with a target service provider SP T . The attacker tries thus to impersonate the victim (U V ) at SP T . B. Threat Models Attack strategy #3 is analogous to the previous ones, the The attacks shown in Table I can be discovered by con- difference being that the user role in the first session is played sidering the Web Attacker threat model introduced in [21] and by the malicious user and the replayed element is P ayeeId. outlined hereafter according to our context: Here the goal of the attacker is to use credits generated by Web Attacker. He/She can control a SP (referred to as the TTP, in the first session, for SP M on SP T . SP M ) that is integrated with a TTP. The SP M can subvert Attack strategy #4 (and #5) differs from the previous ones the protocol flow (e.g., by changing the order and value of in that the User and the SP roles are played by U M and SP T the HTTP requests/responses generated from her SP, including respectively in both sessions. In doing so, the attacker aims to redirection to arbitrary domains). The web attacker can also “gain” something from SP T by re-using the T oken (OrderId, operate a browser and communicate with other SPs and TTPs. resp.) obtained in a previous session with the same SP T . Notice also that none of the attacks discussed requires the Attack strategy #6 is the composition of two basic replay threat scenario in which the TTP can be played by the attack strategies. The element AppId, obtained by running a attacker [31]. We do not consider this threat scenario. session between the victim user U V and the malicious service provider SP M , is replayed to get the AccessT oken which is then in turn replayed by the attacker U M to authenticate as III. F ROM ATTACKS TO ATTACK PATTERNS U V at SP T . Thus, the result should be the same obtained by A close inspection of the attacks in Table I reveals that: completing a session between U V and SP T . 1) they leverage a small number of nominal sessions of In attack strategy #7 (and #8), the HTTP request the MPWA under test, namely those played by U V , (cf. REQUEST-OF keyword) transporting AuthAssert U M , SP T , and SP M , which we concisely represent by (AuthCode, resp.) in a session played by U M on SP T is (U V , SP T ), (U M , SP T ), (U V , SP M ), (U M , SP M ).4 replaced on a sequence comprising a single HTTP request 2) they amount to combining sessions obtained by tam- in which U M sends a HTTP request to SP T (denoted as pering with the messages exchanged in one nominal [U M SEND req]). Thus, the result should be the same obtained session or by replacing some message from one by completing a session between U M and SP T . nominal session into another. In attack strategy #9 (and #10), the attacker includes a ma- By session we mean any sequence of HTTP requests and licious URI (M ALICIOUS URI) in the session between U V and responses corresponding to an execution of the MPWA under SP T . In doing so, the credential AuthCode (AccessT oken, test. Our goal is to identify recipes, called attack patterns, that resp.) is received by the attacker. By replaying this intercepted specify how nominal sessions can be tampered with and com- AuthCode (AccessT oken, resp.) in the session between U M bined to find attacks on MPWAs. We start by identifying and and SP T , the attacker aims to authenticate as U V in SP T . Thus, comparing attack strategies for the attacks in Table I and then the result should be the same obtained by completing a session we abstract them into general, i.e. application-independent, between U V and SP T . attack patterns. We have distilled the attack strategies in Table II into Attack strategies are built on top of the following three a small set of general, i.e. application-independent, attack operations: patterns which are summarized in Table III. To illustrate, consider the attack pattern RA1. This pattern has been obtained 4 For the sake of simplicity we leave B and the TTP implicit since we identify from attack strategy #1 (#2) in Table II by abstracting the the browser with the user. The TTP, according to the threat model considered, element to replay, i.e. AuthAssert (AccessT oken, resp.) into is assumed to be trustworthy. a parameter x. 4 TABLE I: Attacks against security-critical Multi Party Web Applications # Vulnerable MPWA Description of the Attack Attacker’s Goal 1 SPs implementing Google’s SAML Replay U V ’s AuthAssert for SP M in SP T Authenticate as SSO [23, §4] U V at SP T 2 SPs implementing OAuth 2.0 implicit Replay U V ’s AccessT oken for SP M in SP T Authenticate as flow-based Facebook SSO [38, §5.2.1] U V at SP T 3 PayPal Payments Standard implemen- Replay P ayeeId of SP M during transaction T at SP T Complete T at tation in SPs using osCommerce v2.3.1 SP T or AbanteCart v1.0.4 [32, §IV.A.1] 4 SPs implementing CaaS solutions of Replay OrderId of transaction T1 at SP T during trans- Complete T2 at 2Checkout, Chrono-Pay, PSiGate and action T2 at SP T SP T Luottokunta (v1.2) [35, §V.A] 5 PayPal Express Checkout implementa- Replay T oken of transaction T1 at SP T during transac- Complete T2 at tion in SPs using OpenCart 1.5.3.1 or tion T2 at SP T SP T TomatoCart 1.1.7 [32, §IV.A.2] 6 SPs implementing OAuth 2.0 implicit Replay AppId of SP T in the session between U V and Authenticate as flow-based Facebook SSO [36, §4.2] SP M to obtain AccessT oken of U V which is then U V at SP T replayed to SP T . 7 developer.mozilla.com (SP) Make U V browser send request to SP T with U M ’s Authenticate as implementing BrowserID [24, §6.2] AuthAssert U M at SP T 8 CitySearch.com (SP) using Facebook Make U V browser send request to SP T with U M ’s Authenticate as SSO (OAuth 2.0 Auth. Code Flow) AuthCode U M at SP T [25, §V.C] 9 Github (TTP) implementing OAuth 2.0 Replace the value of RedirectU RI to M ALICIOUS URI Authenticate as Authorization Code flow-based SSO in the session between U V and SP M to obtain AuthCode U V at SP T [1, Bug 2] of U V and replay this AuthCode in the session between U M and SP T 10 SPs implementing Facebook SSO [2] Replace the value of RedirectU RI to M ALICIOUS URI Authenticate as in the session between U V and SP M to obtain U V at SP T AccessT oken of U V and replay this AccessT oken in the session between U M and SP T TABLE II: Known Attacks Strategies against MPWAs Id Attack Strategy 1 REPLAY AuthAssert FROM (U V , SP M ) IN (U M , SP T ) 2 REPLAY AccessT oken FROM (U V , SP M ) IN (U M , SP T ) 3 REPLAY P ayeeId FROM (U M , SP M ) IN (U M , SP T ) 4 REPLAY OrderId FROM (U M , SP T ) IN (U M , SP T ) 5 REPLAY T oken FROM (U M , SP T ) IN (U M , SP T ) 6 REPLAY AccessT oken FROM S IN (U M , SP T ) where S = REPLAY AppId FROM (U M , SP T ) IN (U V , SP M ) 7 REPLACE x WITH REQUEST-OF AuthAssert FROM (U M , SP T ) IN [U M SEND x] 8 REPLACE x WITH REQUEST-OF AuthCode FROM (U M , SP T ) IN [U M SEND x] 9 REPLAY AuthCode FROM S IN (U M , SP T ) where S = REPLACE RedirectU RI WITH M ALICIOUS URI IN (U V , SP T ) 10 REPLAY AccessT oken FROM S IN (U M , SP T ) where S = REPLACE RedirectU RI WITH M ALICIOUS URI IN (U V , SP T ) 5 TABLE III: Attack Patterns Name Attack Strategy Precondition Postcondition RA1 REPLAY x FROM (U V , SP M ) IN (U M , SP T ) (TTP-SP ∈ x.flow AND (SU|UU) ∈ x.labels) (U V , SP T ) RA2 REPLAY x FROM (U M , SP M ) IN (U M , SP T ) (SP-TTP ∈ x.flow AND (SU|AU) ∈ x.labels) (U M , SP T ) RA3 REPLAY x FROM (U M , SP T ) IN (U M , SP T ) (TTP-SP ∈ x.flow AND SU ∈ x.labels) (U M , SP T ) RA4 REPLAY y FROM S IN (U M , SP T ) (SP-TTP ∈ x.flow AND (SU|AU) ∈ x.labels AND (U V , SP T ) where S = REPLAY x FROM (U M , SP T ) IN (U V , SP M ) TTP-SP ∈ y.flow AND (SU|UU) ∈ y.labels) LCSRF REPLACE req WITH REQUEST-OF y (TTP-SP ∈ y.flow AND (SU|UU) ∈ y.labels) (U M , SP T ) FROM (U M , SP T ) IN [U M SEND req] RedURI REPLAY y FROM S IN (U M , SP T ) (SP-TTP ∈ x.flow AND RURI ∈ x.labels) AND (U M , SP T ) where S = REPLACE x WITH x0 IN (U V , SP T ) TTP-SP ∈ y.flow AND (SU|UU) ∈ y.labels) RA5 REPLAY x FROM (U V , SP T ) IN (U M , SP T ) (TTP-SP ∈ x.flow AND (SU|UU) ∈ x.labels AND (U V , SP T ) x.location = REQUEST URL) Legenda: The notation (x|y) ∈ S is used to abbreviate (x ∈ S OR y ∈ S). The generation of all other attack patterns go along the elements that are issued by the TTP to SP T for U V . Notice that same lines. For the creation of the attack pattern LCSRF we in the preconditions it is mentioned that the security critical were clearly inspired by attacks #7 and #8. It turns out that this parameters which are used in this attack strategy must be attack pattern is a bit more general than what it was created for. located in the request URL. The request URLs of a browsing In fact, it can uncover general CSRF based on POST requests. session are likely to be stored in the browser history. An example of this will be discussed in the illustrative example Last, but not least, attack patterns need a way to determine of Section IV. whether the attack strategy they executed was successful to A key step in the execution of an attack pattern is the selec- detect any attack. The postconditions included in Table III tion of the elements to be replaced or replayed. For instance, serve this purpose. The idea is that each one of the four when executing RA1 against a given MPWA, the parameter x nominal sessions is associated with a Flag that defines what can be instantiated with any element occurring in the HTTP determines the successful completion of it. For instance, a trace resulting from the execution of (U V , SP M ). Trying them string “Welcome Victim” could be the Flag for the nominal all is clearly not acceptable. To tackle the problem, we inspect session (U V , SP T ) of a MPWA implementing a SSO solution the sessions and enrich the elements occurring in the HTTP (assuming that “Victim” is the name provided by U V at SP T ). trace with syntactic, semantic, location and flow labels whose The concept of Flag will be further clarified in the next section. meaning is summarized in Figure 2. The preconditions in The postcondition is just a program that checks whether a Table III determine how these elements are selected for each certain Flag is captured or not while executing the strategy. pattern. A value of the form (U, SP ) in the column Postcondition For instance, since RA1 is a replay attack that tries to re- stands for this program checking for the Flag associated with play an element from (U V , SP M ) to (U M , SP T ), it is reasonable (U, SP ). to replay only those elements that flow from TTP to SP, i.e. It must be noticed that the definition of postcondition data flow label TTP-SP. Indeed, these are the ones that are depends on the specific MPWA under test. likely to comprise specific values that TTP issues for U V . In addition, it would make little sense to replay elements whose IV. A PPROACH values do not change over different traces. This is why that Figure 3 outlines the two processes underlying our ap- pattern selects only elements in the trace that are tagged either proach. In the first one, executable attack patterns are created, as session unique (SU) or user unique (UU) (the users are reviewed, and improved by security experts (see Section IV-A). different among the sessions where the replay takes place). The second process enables testers to identify security issues The precondition of RA2 is analogous to that of RA1, but in their MPWAs. In a nutshell, the testers (e.g., developers of since RA2 replays an element from (U M , SP M ) to (U M , SP T ), a MPWA) take advantage of the security knowledge embedded then that element must flow from SP to TTP. Similar reasoning within the executable attack patterns. We will see that what is holds for other attack patterns. Notice that for RedURI pattern requested to testers is not much more of what they have to do (inspired by attacks #7 and #8), we consider only the URLs anyhow in order to test the business logic of their MPWAs. that are chosen by the SP T , but can be changed by the users See Section IV-B for details. (see definition of RURI label in Figure 2). A. Creating, reviewing, and improving Attack Patterns In Table III, we have also introduced a new attack pattern Working on our attack patterns require web application named RA5 which is inspired by the “credential leak in security knowledge and implementation skills. Security ex- browser history” threat model which is mentioned in the OAuth perts, in particular those who perform penetration testing 2.0 threat model and security considerations document [20]. of web applications, have clearly both. Security experts can According to this threat model, U M and U V share the same thus read and understand attack patterns like those sketched browser. In the attack strategy, U M replays (to SP T ) the HTTP in Table III. Improving an attack pattern, by changing few 6 Syntactic labels provide type information:a attack patterns is, of course, another source of inspiration. In - URL: a URL, e.g.,redirect uri=http://google.com, general, security experts can craft attack patterns capturing - BLOB: an alphanumeric string with (optionally) special novel attack strategies to explore new types of attacks. This characters, e.g., code=vrDK7rE4, is the case for attack pattern RA5, which we developed to - WORD: a string comprised only of alphabetic characters, explore the “credential leak in browser history” threat model e.g., response type=token, (e.g., see [20, §4.4.2.2]). This threat model, referred to as the - EMAIL: an email address, e.g., usrname=jdoe@example. browser history attacker, is important because browsers can com, be shared (e.g., public libraries, internet cafes). To the best of - EMPTY: an empty value, e.g., state=, our knowledge, we are the first to include this threat model in - NUMBER: a number, e.g., id=5, a black-box security testing approach. - BOOL: a boolean value, e.g., new=true, and A browser history attacker shares the same browser with - UNKNOWN: none of the other syntactic labels match this other Users. It is assumed that the user does not always clear string, e.g., #target. her browser history, but she properly signs out from her login Semantic labels provide information on the role played by the sessions. The attack pattern RA5 leverages this threat model by element within the MPWA:b replaying all the elements issued by the TTP that the attacker can collect from the browser history of the victim. As we - SU (Session Unique): the element is assigned different will see in Section VI, by using this threat model, we have values in different sessions. been able to detect two attacks that could not be discovered - UU (User Unique): the element is assigned the same value automatically using other state-of-the-art black-box security in the sessions of the same user. testing techniques. - AU (App Unique): the element is assigned the same value in the sessions of a single SP. B. Security Testing Framework - MAND (Mandatory): the element must occur for the proto- The different phases of our security testing framework are col to complete successfully. described below. Figure 4 shows how these phases concretely - RURI (Redirect URI): the element must be MAND, it must apply on the following illustrative example: The developer be a URL that is passed as a parameter in a request uri and it Diana has implemented the Stripe checkout solution in her is later found in the Location header of a redirection response. web application. She is required to ensure that (r1) the new Flow labels represent the data flow properties of an element in feature works as it should and (r2) it does not harm the the HTTP traffic. Currently we have two flow labels: TTP- security of her web application. Diana feels confident for (r1) SP and SP-TTP. Label TTP-SP (SP-TTP, resp.) means as the Stripe API is documented and there are several demo that the corresponding element has been received from TTP implementations available in the Internet that she can use as (SP, resp.) and then sent to SP (TTP, resp.). Location labels references. However, she does not for (r2) as she does not have denotes the location in the HTTP Message where the element a strong security background. has been found. The labels that we use are REQUEST URI, Let us see how our approach empowers people like Diana REQUEST H EADER , REQUEST B ODY , RESPONSE H EADER and (referred to as the tester) to do a systematic usage of the body RESPONSE B ODY indicating the location of the element as of knowledge collected by security experts. request URI, request header, request body, response header (P1) Configuration. The tester configures the testing envi- and response body respectively. ronment so to be able to collect traces for the four nominal ses- a Most of the syntactic labels are borrowed from [36], [32] b While the SU and UU labels are borrowed from [36], the AU and RURI sions: S1 = (U V , SP T ), S2 = (U M , SP T ), S3 = (U V , SP M ), labels are new. The MAND label generalizes the SEC label introduced in [36], and S4 = (U M , SP M ). To this end, the tester creates two user where it was used to indicate a secret specific to the current session and accounts, U V and U M , in her service provider SP T and in necessary for the success of the authentication, while here MAND is not a reference implementation SP M (the purpose of SP M is to necessarily secret and SU. represent the SP controlled by the malicious party). Notice that, this step does not require a strong security background Fig. 2: Syntactic, Semantic, Flow and Location Labels and normally does not add-up any additional cost for the tester that wants to functionally test her MPWA. All major TTPs provide reference implementations—e.g., [7], [6], [9], [4]— to foster adoption of their solutions. In case a working official reference implementation is not available, another SP (running the same protocol) can be used. (P2) Recording. In order to enable the testing engine to automatically collect the necessary HTTP traffic, the tester Fig. 3: Approach records the user actions (UAs for short) corresponding to sessions S1 to S4 . This amount to collecting the actions U V and U M perform on the browser B while running the protocol things here and there to e.g., make it a bit more general, with SP T and SP M . Additionally, for each sequence of UAs, is also a straightforward follow-up step. Creation of attack the tester must also identify a Flag, i.e. a regular expression patterns asks for some more effort and, more importantly, representing a pattern in the HTTP traffic which can be used to for inspiration. As discussed in Section III, with the only determine the successful execution of the user actions. Flags exception of RA5, all attack patterns in Table III have been must be different between each other so to be able to ensure inspired by attacks reported in literature. The discovery of a which session was completed without any ambiguity. Stan- previously unknown attack not yet covered by our catalog of dard web browser automation technologies such as Selenium 7 The Stripe checkout protocol is illustrated in Figure 4a. It is slightly different than the PayPal Payments Standard presented in Figure 1b. Hereafter how the Stripe protocol works. In steps 1-5, the user U visits SP—an e-shopping application—at URI SP and initiates the checkout of a product item I—the item is identified by I ID. Upon receiving the checkout request, SP returns a payment form embedded with a unique identifier (DataKey) issued by Stripe to SP (step 6). The user provides credit card details (Credentials) to Stripe and DataKey is sent in this request (steps 7-8). After verifying the validity of Credentials, Stripe returns a token (T oken) which is specific to the SP (steps 9-10). Upon presenting T oken and Secret (a secret credential possessed by each SP integrating the Stripe checkout solution) and Amt (cost of I), SP withdraws Amt from the user’s credit card (steps 11-12). Finally, the status of the transaction is sent to the user (step 13). (a) Stripe checkout protocol (P1) Configuration. Diana uses the SP she implemented as (b) User Actions and Flags of Stripe Checkout SP T and the official reference implementations provided by Stripe [14] as SP M . For each of them, she creates the two user No. Session UAs Flag accounts U V and U M . S1 (U V , SP T ) 1. Visit URI SP T “bought I1 ” 2. Click Checkout (P2) Recording. Table 4b summarizes the UAs and Flags 3. Enter credentials U V collected by Diana during the recording phase. Note that the UAs are obtained from steps 1, 4, and 7 of Figure 4a, while the S2 (U M , SP T ) 1. Visit URI SP T “bought I2 ” Flag is derived from step 13 in Figure 4a (I1 -I4 indicate four 2. Click Checkout 3. Enter credentials U M different items). S3 (U V , SP M ) 1. Visit URI SP M “Enjoy I3 ” (P3) Inference. An excerpt of the inference results of the 2. Click Checkout protocol underlying Diana’s implementation of the Stripe 3. Enter credentials U V checkout protocol is shown in Table 4c. S4 (U M , SP M ) 1. Visit URI SP M “Enjoy I4 ” 2. Click Checkout (P4) Application of Attack Patterns. The result of applying 3. Enter credentials U M each attack pattern of Table III on this example is reported in Table 4d. (c) Excerpt of Inference on Stripe Checkout (P5) Reporting. The RA4 and LCSRF attacks are reported to Element Data Flow SynLabel SemLabel Diana. Execution details of attack patterns are logged and can DataKey SP-TTP BLOB MAND, AU be inspected. T oken TTP-SP BLOB MAND, SU (d) Attack Pattern Application on Stripe Checkout RA1 REPLAY T oken FROM (U V , SP M ) IN (U M , SP T ). This attack pattern reports no attacks. When the attack test-case reaches step 10 of Figure 4a, U V ’s T oken which was actually issued for SP M is replayed by U M against SP T . The TTP Stripe identifies a mismatch between the owner of Secret and the SP for which T oken was issued and returns an error status at step 12. RA2 REPLAY DataKey FROM (U M , SP M ) IN (U M , SP T ). No attacks reported. Similar reasons as the previous one: the attacker replays DataKey belonging to SP M in the checkout session at SP T . Hence the T oken returned by TTP cannot be used by SP T to receive a success status at step 12. RA3 REPLAY T oken FROM (U M , SP T ) IN (U M , SP T ). No attack reported. In Stripe checkout, the validity of a T oken expires once it is used. Reuse of T oken returns an error. RA4 REPLAY DataKey FROM (U M , SP T ) IN S where S = REPLAY T oken FROM S IN (U M , SP T ). This attack pattern reports an attack as there is no protection mechanism in the Stripe checkout solution that prevents spoofing of the DataKey by another SP. Initially, the attack test case replays the DataKey from (U M , SP T ) into (U V , SP M ). When the T oken obtained in this session by SP M is replayed into session (U M , SP T ), Stripe does not identify any mismatch and returns a success status at step 12. This allows the attacker U M to impersonate U V and to purchase a product at SP T . RA5 This attack strategy is not applicable to Stripe as there are no elements with data flow TTP-SP that also have R EQUEST URL as location (basically none of those elements would be present in the browser history). LCSRF REPLACE req WITH REQUEST-OF T oken FROM (U M , SP T ) IN [U M SEND req]. This pattern detects an attack. The test case generated sends a HTTP POST request corresponding to step 10 with an unused T oken. This request alone is enough to complete the protocol and to uncover a CSRF. In our experiment, this was discovered on the demo implementation of Stripe. Indeed it is not unusual that this kind of protections are missing in the demo systems. We do not know whether any productive MPWAs suffer from this. Determining this would require specific testing users on the productive system and the buying of real products. RedURI This pattern is not applicable as there are no URIs that have data flow TTP-SP and semantic property RURI. Fig. 4: Security Testing Framework on an illustrative example 8 WebDriver [13] and Zest [17] can be used for recording UAs. Such technology could be extended to allow the tester to define Flags by simply clicking on the web page elements (e.g., the payment confirmation form) that identify the completion of the user actions. Off-the-shelf market tools already implement this kind of feature to determine the completion of the login operation. (P3) Inference. The inference module automatically ex- ecutes the nominal sessions recorded in the previous phase and tags the elements in the resulting HTTP traffic with the labels in Figure 2. We do not exclude that in the future more information (e.g., inference of the observable workflow of the MPWA [32]) could be necessary to target more complex attacks. While we borrow the idea of inferring the syntactic and semantic properties from [36] and [32], we introduce the concept of inferring flow labels to make our approach more automatic (compared to [36]) and efficient (less no. of test cases for detecting the same attack mentioned in [32]). The inference results of sessions S1 to S4 are stored in a data structure named labeled HTTP trace. (P4) Application of Attack Patterns. Labeled HTTP traces (output of inference) are used to determine which attack Fig. 5: Testing Engine Architecture patterns shall be applied and corresponding attack test cases are executed against the MPWA. (P5) Reporting. Attacks (if any) are reported back to the tester and the tester evaluates the reported attacks. Trace collection (steps 2-3) The input UAs are executed and corresponding HTTP traces are collected. The Flags are V. I MPLEMENTATION used to verify whether the collected traces are complete. We We implemented our approach on top of OWASP ZAP represent the collected HTTP traces as HT (S1 ), HT (S2 ), (ZAP, in short). In this way, the two core phases of our HT (S3 ), and HT (S4 ). The traces are stored as an array testing engine (cf. P3 and P4 in previous section) are fully of hrequest, response, elementsi triplets. Each triplet com- automated and take advantage of ZAP to perform common prises the HTTP request sent via ZAP to the MPWA, the operations such as execution of UAs, manipulating HTTP corresponding HTTP response, and details about the HTTP traffic using proxy rule, regular expression matching over elements exchanged. An excerpt of a trace related to our illus- HTTP traffic, etc. Figure 5 outlines the high-level architecture trative example (Figure 4a) is depicted in Figure 7 in JSON for- of our testing engine. The Tester provides the necessary input mat. For simplicity, we present only one entry of the trace array to our Testing Engine that in turns employs OWASP ZAP to and only one HTTP element. We assume the reader is familiar probe the MPWA.5 In particular, the Testing Engine invokes with standard format of the HTTP protocol. Here we focus the API exposed by ZAP to perform the following operations: on the HTTP elements. For each of them we store the name • (Execute user actions and collect HTTP traces.) (“name”), the value (“value”), its location in the request/re- UAs, expressed as Zest script, can be executed via sponse (“source”, e.g., source:"request.body" indi- the Selenium WebDriver module in ZAP and the cates that the element occurs in the request body of the HTTP corresponding HTTP traffic can be collected from request), the associated request URL (“url”), its data flow ZAP. patterns, syntactic and semantic labels that are initially empty • (Proxy rule setting.) Proxy rules can be specified, as and will be inferred in the next activities. For instance, the Zest scripts, to mutate HTTP requests and response element illustrated in Figure 7 is the T oken shown in step 10 passing through the built-in proxy of ZAP. of Figure 4a. • (Evaluate Flag.) Execute regular expression-based Syntactic and Semantic Labeling (steps 4-10) The collected pattern matching within the HTTP traffic so to, e.g., HTTP traces are inspected to infer the syntactic and seman- evaluate whether the Flag is present in the HTTP tic properties of each HTTP element, reported in Figure 2. traffic. While syntactic labeling is carried out by matching the HTTP Hereafter, we detail the two core phases (P3 and P4) of our elements against simple regular expressions, semantic labeling Testing Engine that follow the flow depicted in Figure 6. Each may require (e.g., for MAND) active testing of the MPWA. step is tagged by a number to simplify the presentation of the For instance, to check whether an element e occurring in flow. HT (U M , SP T ) is to be given the label MAND, the inference 1) Inference: With reference to the steps of Figure 6, the module generates a proxy rule that removes e from the HTTP following activities are performed by the inference module requests (step 6). By activating this proxy rule (step 7), the after the tester records (step 1) the four hUAs, Flagi corre- inference module re-execute the UA corresponding to the sponding to sessions S1 , S2 , S3 , and S4 in (P2). session (U M , SP T ) and checks whether the corresponding Flag 5 The “R” with the small arrow is a short notation of the request-response is present in the resulting trace (steps 8-9). For instance, the channel pair that clarifies who are the requester and the responder of a generic element T oken (see Figure 7) is assigned the syntactic labels service. BLOB and the semantic labels SU and MAND. 9 Fig. 6: Testing Engine Flow Data Flow Labeling (step 11) After syntactic and semantic responding Flags. The Goal, Preconditions, Actions labeling, the data flow properties of each MAND element in and Postconditions are built on top of the Inputs. the trace is analyzed to identify the data flows (either TTP- The pattern is applicable if and only if its Preconditions SP or SP-TTP). In order to identify the protocol patterns, hold (steps 12-14 of Figure 6). As soon as the pattern it is necessary to distinguish TTP and SP from the HTTP Preconditions hold, the Actions are executed (steps trace. We do this by identifying the common domains present 15-17 of Figure 6). The Actions contain the logic for in the HTTP trace of the two different SPs (SP T and SP M ) generating proxy rules that mimics the attack strategy. The implementing the same protocol and classifying the messages generated proxy rules are loaded in ZAP and UAs are ex- from/to these domains as the messages from/to TTP. ecuted. The execution of UAs generates HTTP requests and The output of the inference phase is the labeled HTTP responses. The proxy rules manipulates the matching requests traces of sessions S1 to S4 (represented as LHT (S1 ), and responses. As last step of the Actions execution, the LHT (S2 ), LHT (S3 ), and LHT (S4 )). Postconditions are checked. If they hold (step 18 of 2) Attack Pattern Engine: For the simplicity of explanation, Figure 6), an attack report is generated with the configuration we represent our attack patterns in the same way as the attack that caused the attack (step 19 of Figure 6). graph notation introduced in [33]. Each attack pattern has a Example on Attack Pattern for RA1. To illustrate, let us Name, the underlying Threat model, Inputs used, the consider the Replay Attack pattern RA1 reported in Table III. Goal the attacker (who follows the attack strategy defined in In Listing 1, we show the pseudo-code describing it. the pattern) aims to achieve, Preconditions, Actions The Threat model considered is the web attacker. To and Postconditions. The Inputs to the attack pattern evaluate the applicability of the pattern, the output of the range over the LHTs (labeled HTTP traces generated by the inference phase is sufficient (LHT (U V , SP M )): the attack inference module), UAs of the nominal sessions, and the cor- 10 Listing 2: Extract function v a l u e e x t r a c t ( i d x , u a s UAs ) { 1 rb = g e n e r a t e b r e a k r u l e ( x ) 2 load rule ZAP ( rb ) 3 HTTP logs = execute ZAP ( UAs ) 4 e = e x t r a c t v a l u e ( x , HTTP logs ) 5 clear rules ZAP 6 r e t u r n e} 7 Listing 3: Replay function HTTP logs r e p l a y ( i d x , v a l u e e , u a s UAs ) { 1 rr = generate replay rule (x , e) 2 load rule ZAP ( r r ) 3 HTTP logs = execute ZAP ( UAs ) 4 r e t u r n HTTP logs } 5 ZAP. The ZAP API call execute ZAP(UAs) executes the UAs Fig. 7: HTTP trace with empty labels (an excerpt) in ZAP and returns the generated HTTP logs. The HTTP logs are taken as input by the function extract value (x, HTTP logs) extracting from them the value e, associated to x. In Listing 3, Listing 1: Attack Pattern for RA1 the function generate replay rule (x, e) returns the proxy rule rr used to detect and replace the value of the element x with e. Then, the ZAP API call load rule ZAP(rule) loads rr in ZAP. Name: RA1 1 The ZAP API call execute ZAP(UAs) executes the UAs in ZAP Threat Model: Web Attacker 2 Inputs: UAs ( U V , SP M ) , LHT( U V , SP M ) , 3 and returns the generated HTTP logs. UAs ( U M , SP T ) , F l a g ( U V , SP T ) 4 Notice that, besides the functions mentioned above, in Preconditions: At least one element x in LHT(U V , SP M ) 5 order to help the security expert in defining new attack patterns, is such that (TTP-SP ∈ x.flow AND (SU|UU) ∈x.labels) 6 we provide several functions.6 Actions: 7 For each x such that preconditions hold 8 VI. E VALUATION e = e x t r a c t ( x , UAs ( U V , SP M ) ) 9 To test the effectiveness of our approach, we ran our HTTP logs = r e p l a y ( x , e , UAs ( U M , SP T ) ) 10 prototype implementation against a large number of real- Check Postconditions; 11 world MPWAs. In Section VI-A, we explain the criteria Postconditions:Check F l a g ( U V , SP T ) in HTTP logs 12 based on which we selected our target MPWAs. Next, in R e p o r t ( e , UAs ( U M , SP T ) , F l a g ( U V , SP T ) ) 13 Sections VI-B and VI-C, we explain the attacks we discovered (both automatically and with manual support) and finally, in Section VI-D, we provide some information on how we (responsibly) disclosed our findings to the affected vendors. pattern is executed in case at least one element x has the proper data flow and semantic label (lines 6-7). For each se- A. Target MPWAs lected element x (line 9), the function extract (x, UAs(U V ,SP M )) We selected SSO, CaaS and VvE (see Figure 1c) scenarios (line 10) executes UAs(U V , SP M ), returning the value e as- as the targets of our experiments. For the SSO scenario, we sociated with x. This value e is then used by the function adopted the Google dork strategy mentioned in [8] to identify replay (x, e , UAs(U M , SP T )) (line 11) to replay the value of e SPs integrating SSO solutions offered by LinkedIn, Instagram, while executing UAs(U M , SP T ), and generating the correspond- PayPal and Facebook. Additionally, we prioritized the Google ing HTTP traffic logs (HTTP logs). This logs are finally used dorks results using the Alexa rank of SPs. For the CaaS in the Postconditions to check whether Flag(U V , SP T ) scenario, we targeted open-source e-commerce solutions and occurs. To clarify how the attack pattern engine leverages the publicly available demo SPs integrating 2Checkout and Stripe API exposed by ZAP to interact with the built-in proxy, the checkout solutions. For the VvE scenario, we selected the pseudo-codes corresponding to the extract and replay functions websites belonging to the Alexa Global Top 500 category.7 are reported in Listing 2 and Listing 3, respectively. In List- B. Results ing 2, at first, the function generate break rule (x) is invoked. We have been able to identify several previously unknown Given an element x, it returns a proxy rule rb which sets a vulnerabilities and they are reported in Table IV. We have break point to the execution of the user actions in ZAP, when an occurrence of x is detected. The proxy rule includes regular 6 The full list of functions that can be used in the definition of attack patterns expressions for uniquely identifying an elements in the HTTP is available at https://sites.google.com/site/mpwaprobe. traffic. Then, the ZAP API call load rule ZAP(rule) loads rb in 7 www.alexa.com/topsites 11 promptly notified our findings to the flawed SPs and TTPs CSRF attack against twitter.com and demonstrated and most of them acknowledged our reports and patched how a login CSRF attack in twitter.com becomes a their solutions accordingly. Additional information regarding login CSRF vulnerability on all of its client websites. the disclosures is given in Section VI-D. Screencasts of the 3) Attacks to different protocols (NP): A known kind of attacks and the details about our interactions with the vendors attack is applied to different protocols or implementations are available in the companion website. Some SPs have not of the same scenario (SSO, CaaS, or VvE). Using the RA1 patched the vulnerabilities yet, and thus in Table IV we have attack pattern which is inspired by the attacks against Google’s anonymized their names. SAML SSO (cf. #1 of Table I) and Facebook’s OAuth SSO We cluster the attacks into four classes (see last column of (cf. #2 of Table I), we discovered a similar issue in the Table IV) according to their similarities with respect to known integration of the LinkedIn JS API SSO solution at INstant [7] attacks. This allows us to show the capability of our approach (#a6 ) and another SP (#a5) which has an Alexa US Rank9 to not only detect attacks that are already known in literature, less than 55,000. The vulnerable SPs authenticated the users but also to find similar attacks in MPWAs implementing based on their email address registered at LinkedIn and not different protocols and in different MPWA scenarios. based on their SP-specific user id. 1) New kind of attack (N): The RA5 pattern that leverages We discovered login CSRF attacks in two SPs (#a8, both the browser history attacker threat model discovered an attack having Alexa Global Rank less than 1000) integrating the in the integration of the LinkedIn JS API SSO solution Instagram SSO solution and another SP (#a9 of Table IV, at developer.linkedin.com (#a2). The presence of the non- with Alexa Australia rank10 less than 4200) integrating the expiring user id of the victim in the browser history allows LinkedIn OAuth 2.0 SSO. The attack pattern that discovered an attacker to hijack the victim’s account. Another SP website these attacks is inspired by login CSRF attacks against SPs that appears in the Alexa top 10 e-commerce website category8 integrating the Browser Id SSO and Facebook SSO solutions is also vulnerable to the same attack (#a1). (see #7 and #8 of Table I). 2) Attacks to different scenarios (NS): A known kind of Our attack pattern that tampers the redirect URI (inspired attack has been applied to a different MPWA scenario. By by #9 of Table I) reported that in Pinterest’s implementation applying the RA4 attack pattern, we were able to detect of the Facebook SSO, it is possible to leak the OAuth 2.0 a previously unknown attack in the CaaS scenario (#a3 of authorization code of the victim to the network attacker by Table IV). It must be noted that RA4 is inspired by an attack in changing the protocol of the redirect URI from “https” to SSO scenario (see #6 of Table I), and our protocol-independent “http” (#a10 of Table IV). This attack was possible due to approach allowed us to detect it in CaaS scenario. In particular, the presence of a Pinterest authentication server that is not we identified the attack in the payment checkout solution SSL protected. The same vulnerability was found in all SPs offered by Stripe: the attack allows an attacker to impersonate implementing the “Login with PayPal” SSO solution [5] (#a11 a SP by replaying its publicly available API key (DataKey of Table IV). However, in this case it was due to incorrect in Figure 4a) to obtain a payment token (T oken in Figure 4a) validation of the redirect URI by the IdP PayPal. from the victim user which is subsequently used to shop at 4) Attacks to new SPs (NA): A known kind of attack the impersonated SP’s online shop using the victim’s credit on a specific protocol is applied to new SPs (still using card. As reported in Table IV, this attack is applicable to all the same protocol offered by the same TTP). This shows SPs implementing the Stripe checkout solution [14]. Similarly, how our technique can cover the kinds of attacks that were using our login CSRF attack pattern (inspired by attacks in reported in literature. For instance, in [35], the authors mention SSO), we tested the VvE scenario and discovered the following that a logical vulnerability in the 2Checkout integration in (#a4): osCommerce v2.3 enables an attacker to reuse the payment • login CSRF attack in the account registration process status values of the paid order to bypass payment for future of open.sap.com and six other SPs (all having Alexa orders (cf. #4 of Table I). We tested the 2Checkout integration Global rank less than 500). One of the victim SP is a in the latest version of OpenCart (v2.1.0.1) and noticed that popular video-sharing website. The account activation our RA3 attack pattern discovered a similar attack (#a12 of link (ActLink of Figure 1c) issued by this website Table IV). not only activated the account, but also authenticated the user without asking for credentials. An attacker C. Manual Findings can create a fake account that looks similar to the In [36], the authors were able to manually discover exploit victim’s account and authenticate the victim to the opportunities in SSO integrations by analyzing the inference fake account (this can be done when victim visits results of the HTTP traffic. Since our inference module is an attacker’s website). As mentioned in [26], this enables extension of [36], we were also able to manually identify two the attacker to keep track of the videos searched by attacks. We created one single attack pattern that generalizes the victim and use this information to embarrass the the XSS attack strategy reported in [22, §4]. While writing the victim. preconditions and the attacker strategy was straightforward, • twitter.com sends an email to a user if he/she has the postcondition was more challenging. Indeed establishing not signed into twitter for more than 10 days. The whether a XSS payload is successfully executed is a well- URLs included in this email directly authenticates the known issue in the automatic security testing community. In user without asking for credentials. This is a perfect our preliminary experiments, we just relied on the tester to launchpad for performing login CSRF attacks. The inspect the results of the pattern and to determine whether authors of [25] discovered a standard form-based login 9 http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US 8 www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Business/E-Commerce 10 http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/AU 12 TABLE IV: Attacks discovered Attack # SP TTP (& protocol) Element(s) Class Pattern a1 RA5 AlexaEcommerce-10 LinkedIn JS API SSO U Id, Email N a2 RA5 developer.linkedin.com LinkedIn JS API SSO M emberId, AT oken a3 RA4 All SPs Stripe Checkout DataKey, T oken a4 LCSRF twitter.com, open.sap.com, Gmail ActLink NS other 6 SPs in Alexa Global Top 500 a5 RA1 AlexaUS-55000 LinkedIn JS API SSO Email a6 RA1 INstant LinkedIn JS API SSO AccessT oken a7 XSS INstant LinkedIn JS API SSO F name, LN ame a8 LCSRF AlexaGlobal-1000a, AlexaGlobal-1000b Log In With Instagram Code NP a9 LCSRF AlexaAu-4200 LinkedIn OAuth 2.0 SSO Code a10 RedURI pinterest.com Facebook SSO Auth.Code Flow RedU ri a11 RedURI All SPs PayPal Log In RedU ri a12 RA3 OpenCart v2.1.0.1 2Checkout Order number, Key NA a13 XSS AlexaGlobal-300 LinkedIn REST API SSO AboutM e the XSS payload was successfully executed. By doing so, was already known) and the authors explain how this causes a we uncovered a XSS vulnerability in the INstant website login CSRF in SPs integrating Twitter’s SSO solution. Further [7] integrating the LinkedIn JS API SSO. Additionally, we details about the disclosures are available at our website. manually analyzed the data flow between SP and TTP in SPs integrating LinkedIn REST API SSO to identify tainted data elements. We replaced the value of tainted elements with XSS VII. R ELATED W ORK payloads and identified another XSS vulnerability in a SP that A. Attack pattern-based Black-Box Techniques. has Alexa Global rank less than 300 (#a13). Wang et al. [37] conducted a detailed study of the security of Cashier-as-a-Service based web stores. Inspired from [37], D. Disclosures Pellegrino et al. [32] proposed the idea of black-box detec- Pinterest acknowledged our report about the redirect uri tion of logical vulnerabilities in e-shopping applications. The fixation attack and recently they updated their Facebook SSO proposed approach creates an abstract model of the application implementation. The redirect uri fixation attack against all from the HTTP traffic, identifies the applicability of predefined SPs integrating the PayPal SSO was due to the deviation behavioral patterns and generate test cases misusing these from the OAuth 2.0 standard by PayPal. Even though PayPal patterns. It is interesting to note that the strategy behind all the acknowledged our report, we did not win the bug bounty as exploitable attacks discovered by [32] falls under the category another security researcher simultaneously reported the attack. of replay attacks (precisely those covered by our RA2 and However, none of the details regarding this attack was publicly RA3 attack patterns). We follow a different complementary available and we have the screencast of the attack in our approach by neglecting the application model and directly website to support our claim. The attack against online shop- focusing on replay attacks (among others). We reckon that, in ping websites integrating Stripe checkout was appreciated by principle, there could be control-flow attacks that [32] could Stripe and they rewarded us for our findings. LinkedIn updated detect and we may not (even if there is no experimental the LinkedIn Developers website after receiving our report evidence for this). However, it is also true that our attack about the attack by the browser history attacker. OpenSAP on Stripe would require not-so-obvious extensions of [32]: acknowledged our report about the login CSRF attack in the consider malicious SP as we do and generate online test-cases account registration process of open.sap.com and fixed the to deal with short-lived/one-time tokens. issue. We reported the XSS attacks we discovered against Somorovsky et al. [34] conducted an in-depth analysis of the SPs integrating the LinkedIn SSO to the corresponding 14 different SAML frameworks and developed a framework vendors. LinkedIn was partially responsible for this attack for testing the security of SAML implementations. The testing as it was possible to create a LinkedIn account and provide framework automatically generated various SAML attack pat- XSS payload as the value of user information fields (e.g., first terns by permuting the positions of the original and malicious name, last name). However, it was the responsibility of SPs elements in a SAML assertion. In this paper, we do not to properly filter and encode the user information received consider the XML signature wrapping attack (XSW in short). from LinkedIn. After notifying LinkedIn about the issue, we However, we checked the feasibility of extending our approach noticed that they enforce restrictions in the usage of HTML to support XSW attacks (see Section VIII for details). characters in input fields. Login CSRF is out of scope for Bozic et al. [28] proposed attack pattern-based combinato- Twitter’s vulnerability rewards program [19]. Hence, we did rial testing for detecting XSS vulnerabilities in web applica- not win a bounty for our report. However, in Section V.F of tions. In order to increase the coverage of our attack patterns, [25], it is mentioned that the authors discovered a standard we applied the concept of combinatorial testing, as mentioned form-based login CSRF in the login form of twitter.com (which in Section III. 13 B. Other Black-Box Techniques. the exploitation of logical vulnerabilities in the integrations Wang et al. [36] identified many vulnerabilities in the inte- of CaaS and SSO APIs. However, these techniques requires gration of web SSO systems. The proposed technique analyzes changes to be made in the way applications are deployed. Our the HTTP traffic going through the browser, infers syntax and approach does not have this requirement as we are focusing semantics of the traffic parameters, checks the applicability on detecting the attacks rather than preventing them. of three different attack strategies and provides an overview to assist a security expert in manually identifying concrete VIII. L IMITATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS attacks. In our approach, we adopted their inference concept, Coverage is a general issue for the black-box security further enhanced it with data flow patterns and automated the testing community. Though each of our attack pattern can process of attack discovery. state precisely what it is testing, our approach is not an Prithvi et al. [27] proposes a black-box technique for exception in this respect. Additionally, it can only detect known exposing vulnerabilities in the server-side logic of web applica- types of attacks because our attack patterns are inspired by tions by identifying various parameter tampering opportunities known attacks. Creative security experts could craft attack and by generating test cases corresponding to the identified patterns capturing novel attack strategies to explore new types opportunity. However, this technique required manual effort to of attacks. Two cases can be foreseen here. The new attack convert these exploit opportunities to actual ones. patterns (new recipes) can be built (cooked) on top of the Zhou et al. [40] proposed SSOScan, a tool for automat- available preconditions, actions, and postconditions (ingredi- ically testing SP websites that implements Facebook SSO. ents). In this case it should be pretty straightforward for SSOScan probes the SP website for detecting the presence of security experts to cook this new recipe. If new ingredients are 5 vulnerabilities that are specific to Facebook SSO. SSOScan necessary, extensions are needed. These can range from adding is useful in conducting large-scale security testing of SPs a simple operation on top of OWASP ZAP up to extending the implementing the same SSO solution. Even though our input inference module with e.g., control-flow related inferences and collection module requires more manual effort compared to similar. Another research direction could focus on integrating that of SSOScan, the concept of application agnostic attack fuzzing capabilities within some of our attack patterns. A patterns extends the generality of our approach by enabling clear drawback is that this extension will likely make the the testing framework to detect attacks in multiple scenarios entire approach subject to false positives. A more challenging (SSO, CaaS, etc.). research direction could focus on automated generation of None of the above mentioned black-box techniques pro- attack patterns. Though this may look as a Holy Grail quest, vides experimental evidence of the applicability of the ap- there may be reasonable paths to explore. For instance, when proach in multiple MPWA scenarios (CaaS, SSO, etc.) as we considering replay attacks and the patterns we created for do. them, it is clear that the attack search space we are covering is far from being complete. How many sessions and which C. Other Techniques. sessions should be considered in the replay attack strategy as Bai et al. proposed AUTHSCAN [24] for automatically well as which goal that strategy should target remain open extracting formal specifications from the implementations of questions. However, attack patterns could be automatically authentication protocols and verify it using a model checker generated to explore this combinatorial search space. to identify vulnerabilities. AUTHSCAN uses sophisticated A few attacks reported in the MPWA literature are not techniques such as analyzing the available client-side code in covered by our attack patterns. In fact, Table I does present order to increase the correctness of the automatically extracted neither XML rewriting attacks [34] nor XSS attacks, e.g., [22, formal model. However, the authors mention that due to §4]. For XSS we did not invest too much in that direction the issue of false positives, manual effort was required for as there are already specialized techniques in literature that checking inconsistencies between the actual implementation are both protocol- and domain-agnostic. By adding XML and the extracted formal model. This requires the tester to support, new attack patterns can be created to target also XML be knowledgeable on formal specification. Our approach does rewriting attacks as in [34]. This can be a straightforward not have such a strong requirement and its applicability is not extension of our approach and prototype especially considering limited to authentication protocols. that OWASP ZAP supports Jython [16]. Basically, all Java WebSpi [25] is a library for modeling web applications libraries can be run within OWASP ZAP so that Java functions using a variant of the applied pi-calculus. These formal models performing transformations on the HTTP traffic (e.g., base64, were verified using the ProVerif tool to discover a variety XML parsing) can be used in the attack patterns. Our approach of attacks in the integration of OAuth-based Single Sign- can also be extended to handle postMessage[3]: frames would On solutions. The authors of [25] also proposed the idea of be considered as protocol entities and their interactions as automatically obtaining the formal specification of applications communication events. While there are no conceptual issues written in a subset of PHP and JavaScript. This work also to perform this extension, there is technical obstacle as, at emphasized the importance of considering CSRF and open the moment, OWASP ZAP provides only partial support to redirectors while evaluating the security of web-based security intercept postMessages. protocols. As mentioned in the paper, the approach is not fully Sun et al. [29] proposed to detect logical vulnerabilities automated because it requires the tester to provide the initial in e-commerce applications through static analysis of the configurations. The quality of these configurations has a direct available program code. Even though the level of automation in impact on the results. For instance if the Flags are not chosen [29] is higher than our approach, we were able to detect similar properly, our system may report false positives. attacks without requiring the source-code of the application. Still, as shown, the approach is effective and we plan to Recently, there have been some efforts [39], [29] to prevent further refine it to overcome these kinds of issues. 14 IX. C ONCLUSIONS [24] BAI , G., L EI , J., M ENG , G., V ENKATRAMAN , S. S., S AXENA , P., We presented an approach for black-box security testing S UN , J., L IU , Y., AND D ONG , J. S. Authscan: Automatic extraction of MPWAs. The core of our approach is the concept of of web authentication protocols from implementations. In Proceedings of NDSS’13, San Diego, CA, USA (2013). application-agnostic attack patterns. These attack patterns are [25] BANSAL , C., B HARGAVAN , K., AND M AFFEIS , S. 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