--- type: Whitepaper title: On the Content Security Policy Violations due to the Same-Origin Policy description: Examines how scripts in same-origin parent pages and iframes can bypass each other’s differing CSP restrictions. A crawl of over one million pages identifies potentially vulnerable page–iframe pairs, including cases requiring origin relaxation. The paper also finds browser differences in CSP inheritance for sandboxed srcdoc iframes and discusses origin-wide policy enforcement. resource: "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02875v1.pdf" tags: [whitepaper, webseclist-reference, csp, same-origin-policy, iframe, xss, info-leak, measurement-study, owasp-a01-2021, owasp-a03-2021, owasp-a05-2021] generated: by: webseclist-refs/1 at: "2026-09-10T14:47:01+00:00" status: stable stale_after: 2027-09-10 sources: - id: original resource: "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02875v1.pdf" title: On the Content Security Policy Violations due to the Same-Origin Policy author: Dolière Francis Somé, Nataliia Bielova, Tamara Rezk - id: canonical resource: "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02875v1" also_at: [] authors: - Dolière Francis Somé - Nataliia Bielova - Tamara Rezk canonical_url: "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02875v1" cited_by: - "2016-17.md:121" commit: "" content_sha256: 8c6c88b04d6da6f76f6343ebb9296c8a2b113951e3aaf1221cd9005f7c294b8f depth: full depth_reason: default kind: whitepaper language: "" licence: unknown original_url: "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02875v1.pdf" published: "" publisher: "" publisher_english: "" raw_sha256: 8bfc444b93d3d877ac3f9e8fd1b8680295b6a0648dcddb3fa6568eef2e577c06 retrieved_from: "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02875v1" retrieved_kind: live retrieved_utc: "2026-09-10T14:47:01+00:00" slug: content-security-policy-violations-due-same-origin-policy snapshot: "" title_english: "" translation_file: "" translation_of: "" --- # On the Content Security Policy Violations due to the Same-Origin Policy **On the Content Security Policy Violations due to the Same-Origin Policy** - Dolière Francis Somé, Nataliia Bielova, Tamara Rezk, Publisher not stated. - Published: date not stated - Original: - Current location: - Preserved from: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.02875v1 (live) on 2026-09-10 - Licence: unknown Rights remain with the original author and publisher. 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On the Content Security Policy Violations due to the Same-Origin Policy Dolière Francis Some Nataliia Bielova Tamara Rezk Université Côte d’Azur Université Côte d’Azur Université Côte d’Azur Inria, France Inria, France Inria, France doliere.some@inria.fr nataliia.bielova@inria.fr tamara.rezk@inria.fr ABSTRACT arXiv:1611.02875v1 [cs.CR] 9 Nov 2016 Modern browsers implement different security policies such as the Content Security Policy (CSP), a mechanism designed to mitigate popular web vulnerabilities, and the Same Ori- gin Policy (SOP), a mechanism that governs interactions between resources of web pages. In this work, we describe how CSP may be violated due to the SOP when a page contains an embedded iframe from the same origin. We analyse 1 million pages from 10,000 top Alexa sites and report that in 94% of cases, CSP may be vio- lated in presence of the document.domain API and in 23.5% of cases CSP may be violated without any assumptions. During our study, we also identified a divergence among browsers implementations in the enforcement of CSP in sr- cdoc sandboxed iframes, which actually reveals an inconsis- Figure 1: An XSS attack despite CSP. tency between the CSP and the HTML5 specification sand- box attribute for iframes. To ameliorate the problematic mitigate cross site scripting attacks (XSS), data leaks at- conflicts of the security mechanisms, we discuss measures to tacks, and other types of attacks. CSP allows developers to avoid CSP violations. specify, among other features, trusted domain sources from which to fetch content. One of the most important features 1. INTRODUCTION of CSP, is to allow a web application developer to specify Modern browsers implement different specifications to se- trusted JavaScript sources. This kind of restriction is meant curely fetch and integrate content. One widely used specifi- to permit execution of only trusted code and thus prevent cation to protect content is the Same Origin Policy (SOP) [1]. untrusted code to access content of the page. SOP allows developers to isolate untrusted content from a In this work, we report on a new fundamental problem different origin. An origin here is defined as protocol, do- of CSP. CSP defines how to protect content in an isolated main, and port number. If an iframe’s content is loaded page. However, it does not take into consideration the page’s from a different origin, SOP controls the access to the em- context, that is its embedder or embedded iframes. In par- bedder resources. In particular, no script inside the iframe ticular, CSP is unable to protect content of its corresponding can access content of the embedder page. However, if the page if the page embeds (using the src attribute) an iframe iframe’s content is loaded from the same origin as the em- of the same origin. The CSP policy of a page will not be bedder page, there are no privilege restrictions w.r.t. the applied to an embedded iframe. However, due to SOP, the embedder resources. In such a case, a script executing in- iframe has complete access to the content of its embedder. side the iframe can access content of the embedder web- Because same origin iframes are transparent due to SOP, page. Scripts are considered trusted and the iframe becomes this opens loopholes to attackers whenever the CSP policy transparent from a developer view point. A more recent of an iframe and that of its embedder page are not compat- specification to protect content in webpages is the Content ible (see Fig. 1). Security Policy (CSP) [15]. The primary goal of CSP is to We analysed 1 million pages from the top 10,000 Alexa sites and found that 5.29% of sites contain some pages with Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or CSPs (as opposed to 2% of home pages in previous stud- classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation ies [16]). We have identified that in 94% of cases, CSP on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the may be violated in presence of the document.domain API author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or and in 23.5% of cases CSP may be violated without any republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org. assumptions (see Table 3). During our study, we also iden- WWW ’17 April 3–7, 2017, Perth, Western Australia tified a divergence among browsers implementations in the c 2024 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. enforcement of CSP [24] in sandboxed iframes embedded ISBN 978-1-4503-2138-9. . . $15.00 with srcdoc, which actually reveals an inconsistency between DOI: 10.1145/1235 the CSP and HTML5 sandbox attribute specification for iframes. We identify and discuss possible solutions from the Directive Controlled content developer point of view as well as new security specifications script-src Scripts that can help prevent this kind of CSP violations. We have default-src All resources (fallback) made publicly available the dataset that we used for our style-src Stylesheets results in http://webstats.inria.fr/?cspviolations. We have img-src Images installed an automatic crawler to recover the same dataset font-src Fonts every month to repeat the experiment taking into account connect-src XMLHttpRequest, WebSocket or the time variable. An accompanying technical report with EventSource a complete account of our analyses can be found at [14]. object-src Plug-in formats (object, embed) In summary, our contributions are:(i) We describe a new report-uri URL where to report CSP violations class of vulnerabilities that lead to CSP violations. (Sec- media-src Media (audio, video) tion 2). (ii) We perform a large and depth scale crawl of child-src Documents (frames), [Shared] Workers top sites, highlighting CSP adoption at sites-level, as well frame-ancestors Embedding context as sites origins levels. Using this dataset, we report on the possibilities of CSP violations between the SOP and CSP Table 1: Most common CSP directives [19]. in the wild. (Section 3). (iii) We propose guidelines in the design and deployment of CSP. (Section 4). (iv) We A whitelist can be composed of concrete hostnames (third.com), reveal an inconsistency between the CSP specification and may include a wildcard * to extend the policy to subdomains HTML5 sandbox attribute specification for iframes. Differ- (*.third.com), a special keyword ’self’ for the same host- ent browsers choose to follow different specifications, and we ing domain, or ’none’ to prohibit any resource loading. explain how any of these choices can lead to new vulnera- Restrictions on scripts Directive script-src is the bilities. (Section 5). most used feature of CSP in today’s web applications [19]. It allows a programmer to control the origin of scripts in 2. CONTENT SECURITY POLICY AND SOP his application using source lists. When the script-src The Content Security Policy (CSP) [15] is a mechanism directive is present in CSP, it blocks an execution of any that allows programmers to control which client-side re- inline script, JavaScript event handlers and APIs that ex- sources can be loaded and executed by the browser. CSP ecute string data code, such as eval() and other related (version 2) is an official W3C candidate recommendation [24], APIs. To relax the CSP, by allowing the execution of in- and is currently supported by major web browsers. CSP is line agates to the iframes from the same domain. Technically, it 3 ... means that the CSP of the iframe should be the same or 4 more restrictive than the CSP of the parent. In the next 5 example we show that this requirement does not necessarily Listing 2: Source code of http://main.com/A.html. prevent possible CSP violations due to SOP. 1 var secret = " 42 " ; 2.1.2 Only iframe page has CSP Listing 3: Source code of secret.js. Consider a different web application, where the including parent page A.html does not have a CSP, while its iframe B.html contains a CSP from Listing 4. In this example, 1 Content-Security-Policy: 2 default-src ’ none ’; script-src ’ self ’; B.html, shown in Listing 6 now contains some sensitive in- 3 child-src ’ self ’ formation stored in secret.js (see Listing 3). Listing 4: CSP of http://main.com/A.html. 1 2 ... This CSP provides an effective protection against XSS: 3 4 • script-src ’self’; disallows any script execution from Listing 6: Source code of http://main.com/B.html. any origin except for http://main.com. This only al- lows the local scripts (secret.js) to be executed. In- Since the including page A.html now has no CSP, it is po- lined scripts are also blocked because of the absence of tentially vulnerable to XSS, and therefore may have a mali- ’unsafe-inline’ keyword in script-src directive. cious script injected.js. The iframe B.html has a restric- tive CSP, that effectively contributes to protection against • child-src ’self’ permits to load iframes only from XSS. Since A.html and B.html are from the same origin, http://main.com, therefore an iframe B.html is loaded the malicious injected script can profit from this and steal in the browser. sensitive information from B.html. For example, the script • default-src ’none’ disallows loading of any other re- may call the sendData function with the secret information: sources. 1 sendData ({ secret: children [0]. secret } , ’\ protect \ vrule width0pt \ protect \ href { 2.1.1 Only parent page has CSP http: // attacker.com / send.php }{ http: // According to the latest version of CSP2 , only the CSP of attacker.com / send.php } ’) ; the iframe applies to its content, and it ignores completely Thanks to SOP, the script injected.js fetches the secret the CSP of the including page. In our case, if there is no from it’s child iframe B.html and sends it to http://attacker.com. CSP in B.html then its resource loading is not restricted. As a result, an iframe B.html without CSP is potentially 2.1.3 CSP violations due to origin relaxation vulnerable to XSS, since any injected code may be executed A page may change its own origin with some limitations. within B.html with no restrictions. Assume B.html was ex- By using the document.domain API, the script can change ploited by an attacker injecting a script injected.js. Be- its current domain to a superdomain. As a result, a shorter sides taking control over B.html, this attack now propagates domain is used for the subsequent origin checks4 . to the including page A.html, as we show in Fig. 1. The 3 XSS attack extends to the including parent page because of The XMLHttpRequest is not forbidden by the SOP the inconsistency between the CSP and SOP. When a par- for B.html because an attacker has activated the Cross- ent page and an iframe are from the same origin according Origin Resource Sharing mechanism [18] on her server http://attacker.com. 1 4 In Internet Explorer an origin is just a protocol and domain. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/ 2 https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP2/#which-policy-applies Same-origin policy#Changing origin Consider a slightly modified scenario, where the main page on an internal cluster of 200 cores, using OpenMP to benefit A.html from http://main.com includes an iframe B.html from parallelization. from its sub-domain http://sub.main.com. Any script in Home Page Crawler For each site in top 10,000 Alexa B.html is able to change the origin to http://main.com by list, we crawl the home page, parse its source code and ex- executing the following line: tract three elements: (1) a CSP of the site’s home page stored in HTTP header as well as in HTML tag; we 1 do cume nt.d omai n = " main.com " ; denote the CSPs of the home page by C; (2) to extract more If A.com is willing to communicate with this iframe, it should pages from the same site, we analyse the source of the links also execute the above-written code so that the communica- via tag and extract URLs that point to the tion with B.html will be possible. The content of B.html is same site, we denote this list by L. (3) we collect URLs of now treated by the web browser as the same-origin content iframes present on the home page via 9 and the iframe is to remove the sandboxing. Since, there is 10 a script appearing both in the main page and the iframe, it 11 could create another iframe in the main page, identical to 12 13 1 default-src ’ none ’ 14 2 script-src ’ self ’ www . third . com 15 3 child-src ’ self ’ *. news . com Listing 10: http://www.news.com/page.php 4 connect-src ’ self ’ which we set as the CSP of the replacing page http: 1 //www.news.com/page.php. 2 3 • The original page loads some scripts from the same 4 SOP without CSP domain. Here, we load the script http://www.news. 5 a secret. 6 7 • The original page embeds https://snapengage.dropbox. 8 com/business as an iframe. We have also created a 9 replacing iframe which is http://sub.news.com/iframe. Listing 11: http://sub.news.com/iframe.php php. • The iframe is sandboxed with the same attributes in in 1 the original example. 2 // Some data to protect • Finally, in the original example, the page and the iframe 3 var secret = " some secret " ; loads a third party script at https://ajax.googleapis. Listing 12: http://www.news.com/scripts/data.js com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js. Here, we have created a replacement third party script which is lo- 1 if ( docu ment .dom ain == " www.news.com " ) { cated at http://www.third.com/scripts/relax.js. // Here , we are in the page • The purpose of the third party script is to be able to 2 relax the origins in the page and the iframe, in order 3 // We relax the origin for the iframe to access the parent data, and exfiltrate 4 do cume nt.d omai n = " news.com " ; 5 them to the third party via the iframe, using an AJAX 6 // We create a new iframe without request. the sandboxing attribute and • To achieve this goal, the third party creates a new we hide it. iframe in the page, which have the same attributes 7 var fr = d o c u m e n t . c r e a t e E l e m e n t ( ’ iframe ’) ; as the sandboxed iframe, apart from the sandbox at- 8 fr.src = " http: // sub.news.com / tribute. It then relax the origin in both the page and iframe.php " ; the iframe, and finally exfiltrate the page data via an 9 fr.width = " 0 " ; AJAX request in the iframe, made to the third party 10 fr.heigth = " 0 " ; server. 11 12 d o c u m e n t . b o d y . a p p e n d C h i l d ( fr ) ; We have been able to successfully relax the origin, and ex- 13 filtrate make an AJAX request from the iframe to the third 14 } else { // Here , we are in the party, which would have been impossible if tried directly iframe from the page. The following listings give the details of the 15 // We relax the origin dropbox example, replayed. 16 do cume nt.d omai n = " news.com " ; 17 1 < ? php 18 // We get parent data and exfiltrate 2 header ( " C o n t e n t - S e c u r i t y - P o l i c y : them. default-src ’ none ’; script-src ’ 19 getData ({ secret: parent.secret }) ; self ’ www.third.com ; child-src 20 ’ self ’ *. news.com; connect-src ’ 21 } self ’" ) ; 22 3 ?> 23 4 24 5 25 // Function to exfiltrate data to the 6 third party 7 26 function getData ( obj ) { 27 Directive IC≡ PC PC⊃ IC IC⊃ PC 28 // console.log ( w indo w.l ocat ion ) ; child-src − − X 29 var req = new XMLHttpRequest () ; object-src − − − 30 req.open ( ’ POST ’ , ’ http: // script-src − − − www.third.com / senddata.php ’ , connect-src − − − true ) ; 31 r e q . o n r e a d y s t a t e c h a n g e = function ( frame-ancestors X X X evt ) { img-src − X − 32 if ( req.readyState == 4) { style-src − − − 33 if ( req.status == 200) { font-src − − − 34 // cb.call ( this , JSON.parse ( media-src − X − r eq . re s po n se T ex t ) ) ; 35 console.log ( r e q. r es p on s eT e xt ) ; 36 alert ( " The secret is : " + Table 6: Twitter.com: page and iframe r eq . re s po n se T ex t ) ; 37 } 38 } opening room for possibilities to bypass each other CSP. The 39 }; complete CSP from the page https://twitter.com/?lang=fr 40 var jup = JSON.stringify ( obj ) ; is 41 req.send ( jup ) ; 42 } 1 script-src https: // connect . facebook . net https: // cm . g . doubleclick . net https: // Listing 13: http://www.news.com/scripts/relax.js ssl . g oo g le - an al y ti c s . com https: // graph . facebook . com https: // twitter . com ’ From this demonstration, it is clear that it is not suffi- unsafe-eval ’ https: //*. twimg . com cient to protect only a page or an iframe with a CSP, when https: // api . twitter . com ’ n o n c e - S G j w K L J 5 X r F V Z 8 O d U U 6 2 Z g == ’ https: it is possible for them to relax origins in order to interact // analytics . twitter . com https: // directly with one another. Lots of JavaScript libraries are publish . twitter . com https: // ton . very popular among web applications. It will not be a rather twitter . com https: // syndication . rare case to have a page and an iframe executing the same twitter . com https: // www . google . com third party scripts. If a CSP does not protect both docu- https: // t . tellapart . com https: // ments, even with a sandboxed iframe, we have shown that platform . twitter . com https: // www . g oo g le - an a ly t ic s . com ’ self ’ it is rather simple to set the same origin in both document, 2 fr ame- ance stor s ’ self ’ and bypass the CSP set in one of them. 3 font-src https: // twitter . com https: //*. twimg . com data: https: // ton . twitter . 10.3.2 Different CSP in page and iframe com https: // fonts . gstatic . com https: // maxcdn . bootstrapcdn . com https: // netdna . bootstrapcdn . com ’ self ’ Twitter.com. 4 media-src https: // twitter . com https: //*. Twitter was ranked 9 in the top Alexa sites, at the time twimg . com https: // ton . twitter . com of our study. Most of the pages of the site are covered with blob: ’ self ’ a CSP. Apart from 2 pages including the Tweet Button 14 5 connect-src https: // graph . facebook . com and https://analytics.twitter.com/is/nphif?soc=1, all other https: //*. giphy . com https: //*. twimg . com https: // api . twitter . com https: // pages that we have analyzed for this site have a CSP. We pay . twitter . com https: // analytics . have found one page and its iframe having different CSP. twitter . com https: // media . riffsy . com The page is the landing page of the french version of the https: // embed . periscope . tv https: // site https://twitter.com/?lang=fr. The iframe is at https:// upload . twitter . com https: // api . mapbox . twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/775778893324247041?embed source= com ’ self ’ clientlib&player id=0&rpc init=1 Table 6 shows the differ- 6 style-src https: // fonts . googleapis . com https: // twitter . com https: //*. twimg . ences in different directives of their policies. com https: // translate . googleapis . com From this table , it is clear that the CSP in the page https: // ton . twitter . com ’ unsafe-inline and the iframe differ a lot from each other. Apart from the ’ https: // platform . twitter . com https: frame-ancestors (which value is ’self ’ in both policies), // maxcdn . bootstrapcdn . com https: // other directives are incomparable with each other. More- netdna . bootstrapcdn . com ’ self ’ over, the iframe and the page are all from the same do- 7 object-src https: // twitter . com https: // pbs . twimg . com main https://twitter.com. In addition to that, the iframe is 8 default-src ’ self ’ not sandboxed. In the perspectives of the SOP, the iframe 9 frame-src https: // staticxx . facebook . com and the page can access each other data without limitations, https: // twitter . com https: //*. twimg . com https: //5415703. fls . doubleclick . 14 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet button. net https: // player . vimeo . com https: // a9a07b811338df26287681bd6727fd0a.en.html#dnt= pay . twitter . com https: // www . facebook . false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original referer= com https: // ton . twitter . com https: // https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.twitter.com%2Farticles% syndication . twitter . com https: // vine . 2F20174632&size=l&text=Twitter%E2%80%99s% co twitter: https: // www . youtube . com 20global%20operations%20and%20data%20transfer% https: // platform . twitter . com https: // 20%7C%20Twitter%20Help%20Center&time= upload . twitter . com https: // s-static . ak 1472198975354&type=share&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhelp. . facebook . com ’ self ’ https: // donate . twitter.com%2Farticles%2F20174632%3Flang%3Den&via= twitter . com support 10 img-src https: // graph . facebook . com https: //*. giphy . com https: // twitter . com 2 connect-src ’ self ’ http: // localhost: * https: //*. twimg . com data: https: // http: // localhost . twitter . com: * https: lumiere-a . akamaihd . net https: // //*. twitter . com https: //*. twimg . com fb cdn- prof ile- a . akamaihd . net https: // https: // vine . co https: //*. vine . co www . facebook . com https: // ton . twitter . https: // nowthismedia . com https: // com https: //*. fbcdn . net https: // nowthisnews . com https: // cliptamatic . syndication . twitter . com https: // media . com https: // snappytv . com https: // riffsy . com https: // www . google . com grabyo . com https: // umrss . com https: // https: // stats . g . doubleclick . net https: unicornmedia . com https: // vevo . com //*. tiles . mapbox . com https: // www . https: // mlb . com https: // yesnetwork . com g oo g le - an a ly t ic s . com blob: ’ self ’ https: //*. nowthismedia . com https: //*. 11 report-uri https: // twitter . com / i / nowthisnews . com https: //*. cliptamatic . csp_report ? a = N V Q W G Y L X F V Z X O 2 L G O Q %3 D %3 D com https: //*. snappytv . com http: //*. %3 D %3 D %3 D %3 D & ro = false snappytv . com https: //*. grabyo . com https: //*. umrss . com https: //*. That of the iframe https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/775778893324247041?unicornmedia . com https: //*. vevo . com embed source=clientlib&player id=0&rpc init=1 is https: //*. mlb . com https: //*. yesnetwork 1 default-src ’ self ’ wss: // minigames . mail . ru . com https: //*. apple . com https: //*. http: //*. mail . ru http: //*. imgsmail . ru o rg a ni c fr u it a pp s . com https: //*. http: //*. tns-counter . ru http: //*. soundcloud . com https: //*. spotify . com g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com http: //*.2 mdn . https: // anchor . fm https: //*. bumpers . fm net http: //*. playflock . com http: // my . https: // bumpers . fm https: //*. com http: //*. my . com http: // appsmail . ru spinrilla . com https: // spinrilla . com http: //*. appsmail . ru http: //*. gvt1 . http: //*. hungama . com http: // hungama . com https: *. mail . ru *. imgsmail . ru my . com https: //*. akamaihd . net http: //*. com *. my . com appsmail . ru *. appsmail . ru akamaihd . net https: //*. conviva . com *. attachmail . ru *. live . com *. youtube . 3 font-src ’ self ’ http: // localhost: * http: // com *. youtube . ru *. youtu . be *. rutube . localhost . twitter . com: * https: //*. ru *. vimeo . com *. smotri . com *. twitter . com https: //*. twimg . com https: dailymotion . com *. rambler . ru *. ivi . ru // vine . co https: //*. vine . co data: *. videomore . ru *. s c o r e c a r d r e s e a r c h . com 4 frame-src ’ self ’ http: // localhost: * http: *. weborama . fr *. adriver . ru *. // localhost . twitter . com: * https: //*. serving-sys . com mc . yandex . ru *. mradx . twitter . com https: //*. twimg . com https: net tns-counter . ru *. tns-counter . ru *. // vine . co https: //*. vine . co googleapis . com *. doubleclick . net *. 5 fr ame- ance stor s * g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com *.2 mdn . net *. 6 img-src * data: gvt1 . com *. playflock . com *. ytimg . com 7 media-src * blob: *. google . com vk . com *. vk . com *. 8 object-src ’ self ’ http: // localhost: * http: facebook . com *. twitter . com yandex . ru // localhost . twitter . com: * https: //*. *. yandex . ru twitter . com https: //*. twimg . com https: 2 img-src * data: // vine . co https: //*. vine . co 3 style-src ’ unsafe-inline ’ https: *. mail . ru 9 script-src ’ self ’ http: // *. imgsmail . ru vk . com *. vk . me *. 10 localhost: * http: // localhost . twitter . com: * googleapis . com https: //*. twitter . com https: //*. twimg 4 font-src data: https: *. imgsmail . ru *. vk . . com https: // vine . co https: //*. vine . co me 11 style-src ’ unsafe-inline ’ ’ self ’ http: // 5 script-src ’ unsafe-inline ’ ’ unsafe-eval ’ localhost: * http: // localhost . twitter . https: *. mail . ru *. imgsmail . ru *. com: * https: //*. twitter . com https: //*. yandex . ru *. youtube . com *. dailymotion . twimg . com https: // vine . co https: //*. com *. vimeo . com *. tns-counter . ru ok . ru vine . co *. ok . ru *. odnoklassniki . ru connect . 12 report-uri https: // twitter . com / i / facebook . net *. vk . me vk . com *. vk . com csp_report ? a = *.2 mdn . net go o gl e -a na l yt i cs . com *. N V Q W G Y L X F V Y G Y Y L Z M F R G Y Z J N N V S W I 2 L B & ro = g oo g le - an a ly t ic s . com *. googleapis . com false apis . google . com *. twitter . com yandex . On the other hand, some pages at https://mail.ru, such ru *. yandex . ru openstat . net *. yahooapis . com as the site home page, having a CSP, embeds pages from 6 report-uri https: // cspreport . minigames . https://ad.mail.ru which do not have any CSP. For instance, mail . ru the CSP of site home page is 1 default-src mail . ru *. mail . ru *. imgsmail . ru *. mradx . net *. gemius . pl *. weborama . mail.ru. fr *. adriver . ru *. serving-sys . com This site was ranked 35 at the time of our study. There 2 script-src ’ unsafe-inline ’ ’ unsafe-eval ’ are 2 classes of pages presenting vulnerabilities to CSP viola- mail . ru *. mail . ru *. imgsmail . ru *. tions due to SOP. On one hand, the page https://minigames. mradx . net *. odnoklassniki . ru ok . ru *. mail.ru, having a CSP, embeds some pages at https://connect. doubleverify . com *. dvtps . com *. mail.ru, which do not have any CSP. The CSP of https: doubleclick . net *. g o o g l e t a g s e r v i c e s . com *. g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com *. //minigames.mail.ru is g oo g le a ds e rv i ce s . com 1 default-src ’ self ’ http: // localhost: * 3 img-src data: blob: * http: // localhost . twitter . com: * https: 4 style-src ’ unsafe-inline ’ ’ unsafe-eval ’ //*. twitter . com https: //*. twimg . com blob: *. mail . ru *. imgsmail . ru *. mradx . https: // vine . co https: //*. vine . co net 5 font-src data: blob: https: *. mail . ru *. following table gives details about the comparison of each of imgsmail . ru *. mradx . net the directives. 6 frame-src mail . ru *. mail . ru *. mradx . net *. doubleverify . com *. doubleclick . net ok . Directive IC≡ PC PC⊃ IC IC⊃ PC ru *. ok . ru child-src − − X 7 child-src mail . ru *. mail . ru *. mradx . net *. object-src − − X doubleverify . com *. doubleclick . net ok . ru *. ok . ru script-src − − X 8 report-uri https: // cspreport . mail . ru / connect-src − − X splash frame-ancestors − X − img-src − − X style-src − − X imdb.com. font-src − − X This site was ranked 57 at the time of our study. It has lots media-src − − X of pages at http://www.imdb.com, without a CSP, which are embedding iframes from the same origin. The iframes have Table 7: Mts.ru: page and iframe the following CSP 1 fra me- ance stor s ’ self ’ imdb . com *. imdb . com One may notice that the page and its iframe differ in their *. media-imdb . com withoutabox . com *. origin, respectively https://pay.mts.ru and https://login.mts. withoutabox . com amazon . com *. amazon . ru. Nonetheless, it is worth noting that both document loads com amazon . co . uk *. amazon . co . uk amazon . de *. amazon . de translate . google . com the scripts https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js, images . google . com www . google . com www . https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-TLXGKS google . co . uk search . aol . com bing . com which appear to be manipulating the document.domain ob- www . bing . com ject for purposes we could not capture. yahoo.com. Other examples. There are 2 other sites that deserve attention. This site is regularly ranked in the top 10 Alexa sites. The first one, superjob.ru was ranked 3497 in top Alexa The page at https://login.yahoo.com/?.src=ym&.intl=us&. sites. We have found that 72 of its pages and their related lang=en-US&.done=https%3A//mail.yahoo.com is embed- iframe has different CSP. Just of an example, https://www. ding an iframe from https://mg.mail.yahoo.com/mailfe/resources? superjob.ru/vakansii/rukovoditel-gruppy-razrabotki-po-28776646. o=iframe&src=login. The page has the following CSP html embeds https://www.superjob.ru/yandex ad R-164825-3. 1 referrer o r i g i n - w h e n - c r o s s - o r i g i n html. The page and its iframe was serving different CSP policies. The page was serving , while the iframe has none. 1 default-src ’ self ’ https: //*. superjob . ru http: //*. superjob . ru https: //*. mts.ru. superjob . ua http: //*. superjob . ua This site is ranked 1469 in top Alexa sites at the time https: //*. superjob . uz http: //*. of our study. We have found 8 pages, which are some vari- superjob . uz https: //*. superjob . by ants of https://pay.mts.ru/webportal/payments/67/Moskva http: //*. superjob . by embedding the same iframe at https://login.mts.ru/profile/ 2 report-uri // www . superjob . ru / js / request / header?ref=https%3A//pay.mts.ru/webportal/payments/67/ csp_log . php ? type = desktop 3 style-src https: //*. superjob . ru http: //*. Moskva&scheme=https&style=2015v2 The page has a very superjob . ru https: //*. superjob . ua light CSP http: //*. superjob . ua https: //*. 1 fra me- ance stor s ’ self ’ https: // lk . ssl . mts . superjob . uz http: //*. superjob . uz ru / https: //*. superjob . by http: //*. superjob . by ’ unsafe-inline ’ https: // setting restrictions only for the frame-ancestors direc- fonts . googleapis . com https: //*. tive. In contrary, the CSP of the iframe sharethis . com https: // www . google . com https: // tagmanager . google . com 1 default-src ’ self ’ http: //*. mts . ru https: 4 font-src https: //*. superjob . ru http: //*. //*. mts . ru http: //*. mts . ru: * https: superjob . ru https: //*. superjob . ua //*. mts . ru: * http: //*. superjob . ua https: //*. 2 style-src ’ self ’ http: //*. mts . ru https: superjob . uz http: //*. superjob . uz //*. mts . ru http: //*. mts . ru: * https: https: //*. superjob . by http: //*. //*. mts . ru: * ’ unsafe-inline ’ superjob . by https: //*. superjob . ru 3 script-src ’ self ’ http: //*. mts . ru https: data: https: // fonts . gstatic . com //*. mts . ru http: //*. mts . ru: * https: 5 script-src https: //*. superjob . ru http: //*. //*. mts . ru: * ’ unsafe-inline ’ *. superjob . ru https: //*. superjob . ua g oo g le t ag m an a ge r . com *. http: //*. superjob . ua https: //*. g oo g le - an a ly t ic s . com superjob . uz http: //*. superjob . uz 4 img-src ’ self ’ http: //*. mts . ru https: //*. https: //*. superjob . by http: //*. mts . ru *. go o gl e -a n al y ti c s . com data: superjob . by data: ’ unsafe-inline ’ ’ 5 options inline-script unsafe-eval ’ https: //*. yandex . ru 6 report-uri / amserver / csp-report https: //*. mail . ru https: //*. g oo g le t ag m an a ge r . com https: //*. restricts most of the directives. It is clear that the CSP of g oo g le - an a ly t ic s . com https: // the page is more permissive than that of the iframe. The tagmanager . google . com https: //*. adriver . ru https: // cdn . userecho . com data: blob: https: // mil . ru https: //*. https: // apis . google . com https: //*. mil . ru https: //*. mail . ru https: //*. jquery . com https: // connect . ok . ru yandex . ru https: // counter . yadro . ru https: // vk . com https: //*. vk . com https: https: // check . googlezip . net https: //*. // userapi . com https: //*. facebook . com g oo g le - an a ly t ic s . com https: // stats . g . https: //*. facebook . net https: //*. doubleclick . net https: // counter . twitter . com https: // my2 . imgsmail . ru rambler . ru https: //*. gstatic . com https: //*. g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com https: https: //*. g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com https: //*. sharethis . com https: //*. netroxsc . // tagmanager . google . com https: //*. ru https: //*. netrox . sc https: // adriver . ru https: // cdn . userecho . com az846955 . vo . msecnd . net https: // https: // vk . com https: //*. vk . com https: az849513 . vo . msecnd . net https: //*. blob . //*. twitter . com https: core . windows . net https: // huntflow . ru 10 //*. facebook . net https: //*. facebook . com https: // www . youtube . com https: // s . https: //*. maps . yandex . net https: //*. ytimg . com https: // vimeo . com https: //*. netroxsc . ru https: //*. netrox . sc https: ravenjs . com https: // www . google . com //*. sharethis . com https: //*. bigmir . net https: //*. g o o g l e t a g s e r v i c e s . com https: https: //*. i . ua https: //*. mystat-in . //*. go o gl ea d se r vi c es . com https: // net https: // www . uz https: //*. all . by googleads . g . doubleclick . net https: // https: //*. akavita . com https: // i . ytimg . securepubads . g . doubleclick . net https: com https: // i . vimeocdn . com / https: //*. // dev . recrubase . com https: // app . super-job . ru https: // az846955 . vo . recrubase . com https: //*. criteo . net msecnd . net https: // az849513 . vo . msecnd . https: //*. criteo . com net https: //*. blob . core . windows . net 6 frame-src https: //*. superjob . ru http: //*. https: // huntflow . ru https: //*. superjob . ru https: //*. superjob . ua getsentry . com https: // online . swagger . http: //*. superjob . ua https: //*. io https: // ad . adriver . ru https: // cm . superjob . uz http: //*. superjob . uz marketgid . com https: // rtb . directadvert https: //*. superjob . by http: //*. . ru https: // avatars-fast . yandex . net superjob . by https: //*. adriver . ru https: // favicon . yandex . net https: // https: //*. facebook . com https: //*. googleads . g . doubleclick . net https: // twitter . com https: //*. mail . ru https: www . google . com https: // www . google . ru //*. google . com https: //*. vk . com https: 11 connect-src https: //*. superjob . ru http: // vk . com https: // connect . ok . ru https: //*. superjob . ru https: //*. superjob . ua //*. sharethis . com https: //*. yandex . ru http: //*. superjob . ua https: //*. https: //*. googleapis . com https: // www . superjob . uz http: //*. superjob . uz g oo g le t ag m an a ge r . com https: // https: //*. superjob . by http: //*. tagmanager . google . com https: // superjob . by ’ unsafe-inline ’ ’ googleads . g . doubleclick . net https: // unsafe-eval ’ https: // localhost https: pagead2 . g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com https: // // mc . yandex . ru https: // yandex . ru tpc . g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com https: // mti . https: // www . go o gl e -a n al y ti c s . com edu . ru https: //*. indeed . com https: // https: // tagmanager . google . com https: // player . vimeo . com https: // www . youtube . userecho . com https: //*. userecho . com com https: // huntflow . ru https: // wss: // alloe . superjob . ru https: // dev . superjob-help . ru mx: // res / reader-mode / recrubase . com https: // app . recrubase . reader . html https: //*. soundcloud . com com https: //*. webcaster . pro https: // ext . staffim . ru https: //*. webvisor . com as a CSP, while the iframe was serving a different CSP https: // y an d ex a de x ch a ng e . net https: // st . ya n de x ad e xc h an g e . net https: // dis . eu 1 default-src ’ self ’ *. superjob . ru . criteo . com 2 report-uri // www . superjob . ru / js / request / 7 object-src https: //*. superjob . ru http: //*. csp_log . php ? type = desktop superjob . ru https: //*. superjob . ua 3 style-src *. superjob . ru ’ unsafe-inline ’ http: //*. superjob . ua https: //*. fonts . googleapis . com *. sharethis . com superjob . uz http: //*. superjob . uz www . google . com tagmanager . google . com https: //*. superjob . by http: //*. 4 font-src *. superjob . ru data: fonts . gstatic superjob . by https: // vk . com https: //*. . com vk . com https: //*. facebook . net https: 5 script-src *. superjob . ru data: ’ //*. netroxsc . ru https: //*. adriver . ru unsafe-inline ’ ’ unsafe-eval ’ *. yandex . https: //*. g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com https: ru *. mail . ru *. g o og l et a gm a na g er . com *. // tagmanager . google . com g oo g le - an a ly t ic s . com tagmanager . google 8 media-src https: //*. superjob . ru http: //*. . com *. adriver . ru cdn . userecho . com superjob . ru https: //*. superjob . ua apis . google . com *. jquery . com connect . http: //*. superjob . ua https: //*. ok . ru vk . com *. vk . com userapi . com *. superjob . uz http: //*. superjob . uz facebook . com *. facebook . net *. twitter . https: //*. superjob . by http: //*. com my2 . imgsmail . ru *. superjob . by https: //*. blob . core . g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com *. sharethis . com windows . net *. netroxsc . ru *. netrox . sc az846955 . vo . 9 img-src https: //*. superjob . ru http: //*. msecnd . net az849513 . vo . msecnd . net *. superjob . ru https: //*. superjob . ua blob . core . windows . net huntflow . ru www . http: //*. superjob . ua https: //*. youtube . com s . ytimg . com vimeo . com *. superjob . uz http: //*. superjob . uz ravenjs . com www . google . com *. https: //*. superjob . by http: //*. g o o g l e t a g s e r v i c e s . com *. superjob . by https: //*. superjob . ru g oo g le a ds e rv i ce s . com googleads . g . doubleclick . net securepubads . g . doubleclick . net dev . recrubase . com app . At the time of writing this paper, we have manually visited recrubase . com *. criteo . net *. criteo . the site, and found out that the page CSP is now the same com yastatic . net as that of the iframe. The same has been observed on the 6 frame-src *. superjob . ru *. adriver . ru *. facebook . com *. twitter . com *. mail . ru site http://kinogo-2016.net ranked 8264 in top Alexa sites. *. google . com *. vk . com vk . com connect . It had a page http://kinogo-2016.net/3377-3.html embed- ok . ru *. sharethis . com *. yandex . ru *. ding an iframe at http://kinogo-2016.net/vote/vote.php?v= googleapis . com www . g oo gl e ta g ma n ag e r . 6&id=1. Their CSP policies differed in 4 directives: child- com tagmanager . google . com googleads . g . src , script-src , object-src and connect-src . Now they doubleclick . net pagead2 . enforce the same CSP g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com tpc . g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com mti . edu . ru *. 1 default-src ’ self ’ kinogo-2016 . net indeed . com player . vimeo . com www . 2 script-src ’ self ’ ’ unsafe-inline ’ ’ youtube . com huntflow . ru superjob-help . unsafe-eval ’ oconner . biz h1summer . com ru mx: // res / reader-mode / reader . html *. *. rocks level1cdn . com apicaller . ru soundcloud . com *. webcaster . pro ext . vid eob urne r201 5 . com s . ytimg . com a . staffim . ru *. webvisor . com vimeocdn . com tns-counter . ru player . y an d ex a de x ch a ng e . net st . vimeo . com www . youtube . com mc . yandex . ru y an d ex a de x ch a ng e . net dis . eu . criteo . com share . yandex . ru videsjs . com *. 7 object-src *. superjob . ru vk . com *. vk . com digitaltarget . ru *. viral-cdn . ru *. facebook . net *. netroxsc . ru *. adriver seedeasy . ru trafmag . com t . et-code . ru . ru *. g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com tagmanager deammer . ru viral-cdn . ru *. admitad . com . google . com *. vk . com *. beseed . ru beseed . ru https: 8 media-src *. superjob . ru *. blob . core . // beseed . ru videoroll . net vbmer . com windows . net adone . ru psma01 . com videoseed . ru *. 9 img-src *. superjob . ru data: blob: mil . ru videoseed . ru *. ok . ru vk . com *. mail . ru *. mil . ru *. mail . ru *. yandex . ru counter www . odnoklassniki . ru *. twitter . com *. . yadro . ru check . googlezip . net *. facebook . com vkontakte . ru yastatic . net g oo g le - an a ly t ic s . com stats . g . *. ytimg . com apicaller . ru www . youtube . doubleclick . net counter . rambler . ru *. com kinogo-2016 . net hdgo . cc https: //*. gstatic . com *. g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com googleapis . com https: //*. google . com *. tagmanager . google . com *. adriver . ru cdn google . com *. gstatic . com https: //*. . userecho . com vk . com *. vk . com *. gstatic . com www . go o gl e -a n al y ti c s . com twitter . com *. facebook . net *. facebook . https: // www . go o gl e -a n al y ti c s . com http: com *. maps . yandex . net *. netroxsc . ru *. //*. g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com https: //*. netrox . sc *. sharethis . com *. bigmir . net g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com *. googleapis . com *. i . ua *. mystat-in . net www . uz *. all . 3 object-src ’ self ’ *. rutube . ru *. admitad . by *. akavita . com i . ytimg . com i . com *. minutta . com *. facetz . net *. vimeocdn . com / *. super-job . ru az846955 . cdnvideo . ru *. instreamatic . com idntfy . vo . msecnd . net az849513 . vo . msecnd . net ru mediatoday . ru adpod . ru *. yandex . ru *. blob . core . windows . net huntflow . ru *. *. adfox . ru *. vihub . ru storage . getsentry . com online . swagger . io ad . kinogo-2016 . net *. storage . kinogo-2016 . adriver . ru cm . marketgid . com rtb . net n161adserv . com adpod . in videoseed . directadvert . ru avatars-fast . yandex . ru psma01 . com psma02 . com psma03 . com net favicon . yandex . net googleads . g . adservone . com a d s e r v o n e - g l o b o t e c h 1 . doubleclick . net www . google . com www . netdna-ssl . com http: //*. onedmp . com google . ru www . google . com . ua www . google https: //*. onedmp . com https: // cdn . . by onedmp . com cunderdr . net psmardr . com 10 connect-src *. superjob . ru ’ unsafe-inline ’ http: //*. ytimg . com *. macromedia . com *. ’ unsafe-eval ’ localhost mc . yandex . ru adobe . com https: //*. adobe . com https: yandex . ru www . g oo gl e -a n al y ti c s . com //*. googleapis . com http: // www . youtube . tagmanager . google . com userecho . com *. com https: // www . youtube . com *. gstatic . userecho . com wss: // alloe . superjob . ru com dev . recrubase . com app . recrubase . com 4 style-src ’ self ’ ’ unsafe-inline ’ h1summer . com novinkifilmov . com tns-counter . ru vid eob urne r201 5 . com *. vimeocdn . com *. Those 2 policies are incomparable, as shown by the fol- vimeo . com videsjs . com vbmer . com *. lowing table. googleapis . com *. cackle . me viutb . com kinogo-2016 . net https: //* http: // netdna . bootstrapcdn . com Directive IC≡ PC PC⊃ IC IC⊃ PC 5 img-src * data: psma01 . com psma02 . com child-src − − − psma03 . com adservone . com object-src − − − a d s e r v o n e - g l o b o t e c h 1 . netdna-ssl . com script-src − − − http: //*. onedmp . com https: //*. onedmp . connect-src − − − com https: // cdn . onedmp . com psmardr . com ki nogo -net -201 5 . net fonts . googleapis . frame-ancestors X X X com kinogo-2016 . net img-src − − − 6 child-src blob: * style-src − − − 7 media-src ’ self ’ * mediastream blob: * font-src − − − 8 frame-src ’ self ’ ’ unsafe-eval ’ *. worldssl . media-src − − − net videoframe . blue h1summer . com video . sibnet . ru *. rutube . ru rutube . ru *. vk . com vk . com *. rocks *. mail . ru www . ok . ru Table 8: Superjob.ru: page and iframe ok . ru winvideo . org *. adfox . ru *. vihub . ru *. betweendigital . com *. smartadserver . com videoroll . net videoapi . my . mail . ru youtu . be psma01 . com psma02 . com psma03 . com adservone . com a d s e r v o n e - g l o b o t e c h 1 . netdna-ssl . com http: //*. onedmp . com https: //*. onedmp . com https: // cdn . onedmp . com psmardr . com *. videoseed . ru yastatic . net *. cackle . me cackle . me 1001 noch . net kin ogo -net -201 5 . net *. uptolike . com moonwalk . cc serpens . nl 37.220.36.15 hdgo . cc *. yahoo . com http: // yandex . sc http: // www . youtube . com https: // www . youtube . com http: //*. g o o g l e s y n d i c a t i o n . com https: //*. google . com http: //*. google . com 9 font-src ’ self ’ data: https: //*. gstatic . com *. bootstrapcdn . com *. uptolike . com: * 10 connect-src ’ self ’ *. moonwalk . cc 37.220.36.15 *. onedmp . com level1cdn . com *. rutube . ru rutube . ru wss: // ws . hghit . com *. adfox . ru *. vihub . ru *. weborama . fr *. am15 . net *. minutta . com *. nighter . club *. zerocdn . com *. storage . kinogo-2016 . net *. doubleclick . net wss: //*. cackle . me kinogo-2016 . net *. yandex . net *. cackle . me *. yandex . ru *. uptolike . com https: // www . youtube . com *. googlevideo . com https: //*. gstatic . com