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PASSKEYS-ATTACKER then tests live implementations with 15 attack types and 28 detection methods: of 103 relying parties analysed, 18 were vulnerable to critical-severity threats and 53 to high-severity ones." resource: "https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity26/presentation/jannett" tags: [article, webseclist-reference, en, usenix, passkeys, webauthn, identity, measurement-study, large-scale-scan, auth-bypass, owasp-a01-2021, owasp-a07-2021] generated: by: webseclist-refs/1 at: "2026-08-19T13:07:52+00:00" status: stable stale_after: 2027-08-19 sources: - id: original resource: "https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity26/presentation/jannett" title: "The State of Passkeys: Studying the Adoption and Security of Passkeys on the Web" author: Louis Jannett, Andreas Mayer, Maximilian Westers, Vladislav Mladenov, Christian Mainka, Jörg Schwenk also_at: - "https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity26-jannett.pdf" - "https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity26/sec26_prepub_jannett.pdf" authors: - Louis Jannett - Andreas Mayer - Maximilian Westers - Vladislav Mladenov - Christian Mainka - Jörg Schwenk canonical_url: "" cited_by: - "2026-ai.md:103" commit: "" content_sha256: 365dad7b5cc7c9a77f8adbf1c23dc48ce8b7554f7568270c0717e586a6640685 depth: full depth_reason: default kind: article language: en licence: unknown original_url: "https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity26/presentation/jannett" published: "" publisher: USENIX publisher_english: "" raw_sha256: 5a7759b4f5a5eca5f88be13c9ddac4e4d8c177a12358135e586447845d96d6e1 retrieved_from: "https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity26-jannett.pdf" retrieved_kind: live retrieved_utc: "2026-08-19T13:07:52+00:00" slug: usenix-org-state-passkeys-studying-adoption-security-passkeys-web snapshot: "" title_english: "" translation_file: "" translation_of: "" --- # The State of Passkeys: Studying the Adoption and Security of Passkeys on the Web **The State of Passkeys: Studying the Adoption and Security of Passkeys on the Web** - Louis Jannett, Andreas Mayer, Maximilian Westers, Vladislav Mladenov, Christian Mainka, Jörg Schwenk, USENIX. - Published: date not stated - Original: - Also published at: - Also published at: - Preserved from: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity26-jannett.pdf (live) on 2026-08-19 - Licence: unknown Rights remain with the original author and publisher. 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August 12–14, 2026 • Baltimore, MD, USA ISBN 978-1-939133-58-8 Open access to the Proceedings of the 35th USENIX Security Symposium is sponsored by The State of Passkeys: Studying the Adoption and Security of Passkeys on the Web Louis Jannett 1 , Andreas Mayer 2 , Maximilian Westers 2 , Vladislav Mladenov 1 , Christian Mainka 3 , and Jörg Schwenk 1 1 Ruhr University Bochum 2 Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences 3 University of Wuppertal Abstract Passkey Authentication WebAuthn CTAP Passkeys provide a secure and phishing-resistant authenti- (a) challenge (b) sign (c) confirm cation method based on FIDO2 and WebAuthn. They have Relying Party Client Authenticator User recently gained popularity, with an increasing number of web- sites adopting them. Nevertheless, a comprehensive security This Paper: Adoption and Securit y of Passkey s analysis that evaluates such websites at scale has not been PASSKEYS- RADAR PASSKEYS- A TTACKER fully addressed. We present PASSKEYS -R ADAR, a continu- radar.passkeys.tools attacker.passkeys.tools - 15 Attack Types, 28 Detection Methods ously updated dataset that tracks the deployment of passkeys - Internet-Wide Scanning - Historic Data Analysis - 103 RPs Analyzed - 18 RPs vulnerable to critical- severity threats on the Internet since 2021. To build this dataset, we ag- - 872 Passkey- Enabled RPs - 53 RPs vulnerable to high- severity threats gregated diverse sources, including community directories, Tranco 1M, CrUX 18M, and historic Internet archive data. We Figure 1: Scope of this Paper. First, we quantify the adoption analyzed the collected data of 872 passkey-enabled websites of passkeys on real-world websites using PASSKEYS -R ADAR and shed light on how passkeys are implemented and man- (§3) and we study how they are used and managed by these aged. We identify major differences in how websites allow sites (§4). Second, we implement all security tests from the users to add or delete passkeys and find that websites request WebAuthn specification into PASSKEYS -ATTACKER (§5), authenticators to use deprecated cryptographic algorithms. and evaluate how secure websites implement passkeys (§6). To perform a comprehensive security evaluation of passkey- enabled websites, we developed PASSKEYS -ATTACKER. The tool allows for precise manipulation of WebAuthn messages with strong public-key cryptography for improved security. at every step of the protocol and integrates 15 attack types of They are based on standards developed by the Fast IDentity which 10 were not covered in previous work. Among them, 2 Online (FIDO) Alliance [36] and W3C [89]. Today, passkeys attack types have critical CVSS scores. We discovered them are supported across all major browsers, including Chrome, on 18 out of 103 evaluated websites. These attacks take over Firefox, and Safari, as well as on platforms such as Windows, user accounts, delete their passkeys, or lock them out of their macOS, iOS, and Android [77]. Large corporations such as accounts. Nearly half of the tested sites (53) were vulnerable Apple, Google, and Microsoft drive the adoption of passkeys. to at least one attack with a high CVSS score, exposing users These companies are members of the FIDO Alliance and to threats such as phishing and session fixation. actively integrate and promote passkeys in their ecosystems. Passkey Authentication Scheme. Passkeys are built on 1 Introduction two core protocols, jointly referred to as FIDO2: (1) Web Au- thentication API (WebAuthn), which defines how the Relying “Hackers don’t break in – they sign in” [66]. In May 2025, Party (RP) communicates with the client, and (2) Client-to- security researchers found 184 million leaked passwords [96]. Authenticator Protocol (CTAP), which specifies how the client Within a few weeks, this estimate was revised to 16 billion communicates with the authenticator. This paper examines passwords, making it the largest known password compromise WebAuthn and evaluates the security of RPs, see Figure 1. to date [95]. Such incidents highlight the urgent need to move (a) First, the RP initiates the authentication process by pro- beyond passwords towards passwordless authentication. viding a randomly generated challenge to the client. Passkeys. Passkeys are the modern, phishing-resistant, and (b) The client then asks the authenticator to sign this chal- user-friendly authentication method that replaces passwords lenge with the private key that it has stored for that RP. USENIX Association 35th USENIX Security Symposium 5039 (c) The user confirms the request through a gesture and, if RQ4: How many websites are compliant with the required, is verified via biometrics or PIN. passkey security considerations? (§6). The WebAuthn stan- Finally, the signed challenge is returned to the RP, which dard [89] defines detailed security and privacy requirements. verifies it using the public key that the user registered when From these, we derived 15 attack types and implemented 28 enabling passkeys for the website. Surprisingly, there has detection methods in PASSKEYS -ATTACKER. Instead of as- been little security research on how RPs are verifying the signing custom names and impact to each attack type, we actual authentication process on the web [44, 56, 98]. relied on standard frameworks. We used CWEs to categorize To fill this gap, we formulated four research questions our attack types. To assess their severity, we mapped them (RQs) to better understand passkey adoption and security. to known CVEs and rated them using the CVSS score. For RQ1: How accurately do current sources reflect the 7 cases without existing CVEs, we assigned scores based on adoption of passkeys? (§3). An essential prerequisite for comparable vulnerabilities. We then analyzed 103 RPs with studying passkeys on the web is to determine which web- PASSKEYS -ATTACKER. The results are alarming: none of sites currently support passwordless authentication. Several the tested RPs passed all security checks mandated by the methods exist for this. For example, Jannett et al. [50] mon- standard. Even more critically, 18 RPs contained at least one itored WebAuthn API calls on the Tranco 1M. Community vulnerability rated as critical and 53 as high. Such flaws en- directories also list sites that have adopted passkeys, such as able attackers to bypass authorization, delete passkeys of other fidoalliance.org, keepersecurity.com, and passkeys. users, or prevent them from accessing their accounts. directory. Websites may further announce support through Contributions. We make the following contributions: well-known URLs. However, the accuracy of these data sources remains unclear. To address this, we built PASSKEYS - ▶ We systematize the passkey registration and authentica- R ADAR, a fully automated scanner that continuously detects tion flows with a focus on security (§2). passkey-enabled websites. We merged 12 public directories ▶ To support future research, we introduce PASSKEYS - and complemented them with monthly scans of the CrUX R ADAR, the most comprehensive automatically gen- 18M. Our results show that scanning domains uncovers about erated and continuously updated directory of passkey- 125% more RPs than all community directories combined. enabled websites (§3). PASSKEYS -R ADAR identified PASSKEYS -R ADAR identified 872 RPs that support passkeys. 872 RPs with support for passkeys. On 208 of them, we RQ2: How are passkeys used on websites? (§4). At first successfully registered passkeys and analyzed their man- glance, managing passkeys appears straightforward, but our agement, supported features, and whether passkeys are study proved us wrong. We manually created test accounts used for passwordless authentication or 2FA (§4). on 208 websites and registered passkeys on them. Even dur- ▶ We present PASSKEYS -ATTACKER, the largest set of ing registration, we observed several peculiarities. Some sites automated security tests for passkeys to date. Beyond skipped password confirmation for adding a passkey, although predefined checks, it allows fine-grained manipulation they required it for changing a password. Others did not allow of each step in the passkey message flow (§5). Using deleting a passkey once registered or supported only a single PASSKEYS -ATTACKER, we conducted a semi-automatic passkey. 61 sites accepted passkeys only as a second factor, analysis of 103 passkey-enabled websites. None passed still requiring a password. Some used the same passkey for all required security tests, and over half contained vul- both passwordless login and two-factor authentication, de- nerabilities with a high or critical CVSS score (§6). pending on the user-chosen passkey authentication mode. All but one site requested deprecated cryptographic algorithms, 2 Passkeys and How They Work and only 90 of 208 RPs used the recommended ones. RQ3: How comprehensive are state-of-the-art passkey The FIDO Alliance [36] is an open industry group that devel- security frameworks? (§5). Web security largely depends on ops and promotes passkey standards. Our work focuses on RPs correctly implementing passkeys. To study this at scale, websites and, thereby, on the WebAuthn protocol [89]. we reviewed existing tools from prior work. Research so far has covered authenticators [15, 54, 55, 64, 82] and provided 2.1 Passkeys Protocol Flow formal analyses [9, 10, 11]. Yet, standardized WebAuthn vali- dations on the RP side have received little attention. Previous Surprisingly, there is no dedicated source that directly de- studies explored other attacker models, such as malware [56] scribes the WebAuthn protocol flow. Instead, the flow is only or malicious browser extensions [98], or performed manual implicitly defined in the WebAuthn standard [89], which we checks on a few validations [44, 45]. To address this gap, summarize in the following. we developed PASSKEYS -ATTACKER, a framework that can Protocol Overview. To log in to RP, a user must first intercept, analyze, and modify all WebAuthn messages. To register a passkey with their account (→ registration phase). our knowledge, it is the first system that automates active and If the user does not yet have an account, they can create extended attacks on passkey registration and authentication. one and immediately set up a passkey as their primary login 5040 35th USENIX Security Symposium USENIX Association Frontend Backend (1) rpname and username are human-readable names for the RP and the user. User Relying Party Client Authenticator Relying Party (2) userid is a unique and random identifier for the user. " Register passkey" Fetch Creation Options: (3) challenge is a fresh session-bound random value. creationOptions = rp id , rp name, user id , user name, challenge §5.4 (4) rpid is a domain that identifies the RP. By default, it is §5.1.3 Call API: creationOptions set to the effective domain of the origin on which the clientData = "create", challenge, origin §5.8.1 passkey is created. It mitigates phishing by protecting Request Attestation: Registration Phase hash(clientData), rp id&name, user id&name §6.3.2 passkeys from being accessed by other origins. User Authorization: User Presence and User Verification §6.5 The creationOptions can include extra parameters, such as §6.3.2.6 Create Attestation: cred id , cred pubkey , cred privkey ? init() preferences for cryptographic algorithms or types of authenti- authData = hash(rp id ), flags, sig cnt = 0, aaguid, cred id , cred pubkey cators (e.g., hardware vs. software). db.store(rp id , user id , cred id , user name, §6.3.2 sig cnt , cred pubkey , cred privkey) Call API. The RP’s front end passes the creationOptions Optional: Resolve API: clientData, Return Attestation: sig = sign(authData, hash(clientData)) authData, [sig] to the client’s navigator.credentials.create API [67]. §5.2.1 authData, [sig] Verif y+Store Request Attestation. The client constructs the clientData. §7.1 Attestation db.store(credid , It contains the current context (“create” for the registration " Successfully registered passkey" cred pubkey , sig cnt) phase), the challenge, and the RP’s origin. The client must db.map(user id , cred id ) verify that the specified rpid matches the RP’s origin or is a registrable suffix. Figure 2: Passkey Registration Phase (we refer to the corre- User Authorization. Covert passkey registrations would sponding sections in the WebAuthn standard [89]). enable user tracking. To prevent this threat, the user must confirm each registration. There are two possibilities for this purpose: user presence and user verification. User presence method. For existing accounts, the user must first authenticate means that the user has intentionally approved the creation of using their current login method, i.e., passwords, Single Sign- the passkey. For example, the user has clicked on a button on On (SSO), or email magic links. Once authenticated, they can a hardware security key. User verification means that the user navigate to their account settings to register a new passkey. was explicitly authenticated during registration. For example, After registration, the user can use the passkey to sign the RP’s the user entered a PIN or used biometrics. challenge and log in to the RP (→ authentication phase). Create Attestation. The authenticator generates a new cre- Protocol Roles. Providing a passwordless login experience dential, which consists of a random identifier (credid ), a public with passkeys requires orchestration between multiple roles. key (credpubkey ), and a private key (credprivkey ). It then assem- (1) Relying Party: The RP is the entity to which the user bles the authData, which includes: (1) the SHA256-hashed wants to authenticate, for example, a website. rpid , (2) flags indicating whether the user was present and (2) Authenticator: The authenticator generates the public verified, and whether the credential is eligible for backup and and private key pair during registration. Later, it uses the pri- backed up, (3) sigcnt – a signature counter that increments vate key to sign the challenge during authentication. Authen- with each authentication, (4) AAGUID – an Authenticator ticators can be physical devices [99], for example, a phone or Attestation Globally Unique Identifier (AAGUID) that identi- hardware security key. They can also be software-based [43]. fies the authenticator’s manufacturer and model, and (5) the Examples include a password manager like Chrome’s built-in credid and credpubkey . Google Password Manager and 1Password. Likewise, they Return, Resolve, and Verify. After the authenticator re- can be integrated into the operating system’s keychain, such turns the attestation to the client, the client augments its client- as Windows Hello or the iCloud Keychain. Data and completes the API call. As a result, the RP’s front (3) Client: The client facilitates communication between end receives the attestation and forwards all data to its back RPs and authenticators. In our web scenario, it is the browser. end. The back end validates the attestation and, if successful, associates the credpubkey with the user’s account. 2.2 Passkey Registration Phase 2.3 Passkey Authentication Phase Figure 2 was generated by utilizing the implicitly defined We depict the authentication phase in Figure 3. registration phase within the WebAuthn standard [89]. We Discoverable vs. Non-Discoverable Mode. There are two assume that the user is logged in and initiates the passkey authentication modes: the discoverable mode and the non- registration from their account settings. discoverable mode. In the discoverable mode, there’s no initial Fetch Creation Options. First, the RP sends a request indication of which user is logging in to the RP. Typically, to its back end. It uses the Fetch API [69] to obtain fresh the RP’s login page only displays a “Login with Passkey” creationOptions. These options include: button. The authenticator retains the username alongside the USENIX Association 35th USENIX Security Symposium 5041 Frontend Backend PASSKEYS- RADAR (§3) radar.passkeys.tools automatic periodic scanning User Relying Party Client Authenticator Relying Party Tranco 1M (Prior Work) attacker.passkeys.tools PASSKEYS- A TTACKER (§5) 1. Find login pages by crawling, search engine, ... " Login" or " Login as alice" Fetch Request Options: user name=alice 2. Trigger and intercept WebAuthn API calls user id ? db.get(username ) §4 requestOptions = rp id , challenge, cred id cred id ? db.get(userid ) CrUX 18M Merging §5.5 Authentication Phase Call API: requestOptions 1. GET /.well- known/webauthn != 404 §5.1.4 2. GET /.well- known/passkey- endpoints != 404 clientData = "get", challenge, origin §5.8.1 Request Assertion: Communit y Directories hash(clientData), rp id , cred id §6.3.3 1. Fetch latest entries from community directory User Authorization and Selection of user name §6.3.3.7 2. Fetch historic entries from internet archive §6.1 Create Assertion: user id , cred id , cred privkey ? db.get(rp id and user name Return Assertion: or via the cred id ) Resolve API: user id , cred id , authData = hash(rp id ), flags, sig cnt clientData, authData, sig sig = sign(authData || hash(clientData)) §5.2.2 user id , cred id , authData, sig §6.3.3 §7.2 Figure 4: PASSKEYS -R ADAR enables our fully automatic Verif y Assertion cred pubkey ? db.get(user id detection of passkey implementations on websites. and/or cred id ) " Welcome, Alice!" verify(sig, credpubkey , authData || hash(clientData)) (which includes the challenge). Figure 3: Passkey Authentication Phase (we refer to the cor- Return, Resolve, and Verify. The authenticator returns responding sections in the WebAuthn [89] standard). Green the assertion to the client, which augments its clientData and parameters and steps are only used in non-discoverable mode. resolves the API call. The front end forwards all data to the back end, which verifies that the correct challenge was signed using the credpubkey that it has stored for the userid and credid . rpid and credprivkey , enabling it to request the user to choose the username for login. For example, consider a user who has two different accounts on the same RP. In the discoverable 3 PASSKEYS -R ADAR: Fully Automatic Detec- mode, the user does not provide any hint to the RP about tion of Passkey Implementations on the Web which account the user wants to use to log in. Instead, the authenticator prompts the user to choose one of those two This section answers RQ1 and presents PASSKEYS -R ADAR, accounts. This task is easy for software authenticators, such as a fully automated large-scale method for detecting passkey- a browser’s password manager, but not for hardware security enabled websites, as detailed in Figure 4. keys. Thus, there is the non-discoverable mode. In this mode, the user needs to submit a username directly on the RP’s login page. This way, the RP back end can perform a database 3.1 Detecting Passkey-Enabled Websites lookup of the username and determine the registered credid . We combine three techniques to build the most comprehensive The credid is passed to the authenticator, allowing it to select collection of passkey-enabled websites to date. To support the appropriate credprivkey for signing the challenge. future large-scale analyses of passkeys, we run automated Fetch Request Options. First, the RP’s front end obtains periodic scans that continuously update this dataset. This fresh requestOptions from its back end. They include the rpid , provides researchers access to the most current list and allows a fresh challenge, and, in non-discoverable mode, the credid us to monitor the long-term evolution of passkeys. of the credential that should be used to sign the challenge. Tranco 1M (Prior Work). Recently, Jannett et al. [50] Call API. The RP’s front end passes the requestOptions to have published a tool that scans the Tranco top 1M websites the client’s navigator.credentials.get API [68]. and their login pages. They automatically detect passkey- Request Assertion. The client constructs the clientData. enabled websites, but they did not further investigate this infor- It includes the current context, which equals “get” for the mation. Since the authors made their dataset and source code authentication phase. Also, it includes the challenge and the publicly available [85], we could build upon their work. Inves- RP’s origin. The client sends a hash of the clientData to the tigating their source code, we discovered that they solely used authenticator, along with the rpid and, in non-discoverable WebAuthn API calls to detect passkey logins. We enhanced mode, the credid . this approach with further techniques as outlined below. User Authorization. To prevent silent authentication and CrUX 18M – Well-Known Documents. Well-known doc- protect against stolen credentials, the user’s presence and iden- uments [94] serve various purposes, such as proving do- tity must be verified. In discoverable mode, the authenticator main ownership [87], delivering metadata [31], or providing additionally prompts the user to choose a username for login. machine-readable instructions for responsible vulnerability Return Assertion. The authenticator constructs the auth- disclosure [38]. These documents are always located at fixed Data, which includes the hashed rpid , flags, and the signature paths on a website, making them easy to detect automatically. counter. It loads the credprivkey corresponding to the userid and In the context of passkeys, there are two relevant well-known credid , and uses it to sign the authData and clientDataHash documents: (1) The webauthn document [91] is hosted at 5042 35th USENIX Security Symposium USENIX Association /.well-known/webauthn. It enables the Related Origin Re- information content of the sources. All entries are consoli- quests (ROR) feature, which allows a single passkey to be dated into a single input file, each containing at least a domain, shared across multiple related sites (see §6.2.3). (2) The end- a name, or both. To align entries, we apply normalization and points document [3] is located at /.well-known/passkey- ⌋ pattern-matching techniques, such as stripping whitespace endpoints. It allows RPs to signal their support for passkeys. and converting to lowercase. We then compare names using In addition, it specifies where users can create new passkeys substring matching. For example, “Google” is considered part and manage existing ones. of “Google LLC”, so we merge these entries. Subdomains Starting in February 2025, we have conducted monthly like login.google.com are reduced to their registrable base scans of these two documents. Each month, we retrieve the google.com. We merge domains if they match or share the latest Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) dataset from same base domain, such as google.com and google.co.uk. Google BigQuery [20], which covers 18M sites. We checked Nevertheless, some entries remained distinct despite using the each site for the presence of these well-known files. same authentication system, such as gmail.com and google ⌋ Community Directories. Several websites curate lists of .com. To resolve such cases, we additionally leveraged the passkey-enabled websites. We refer to these as community Tracker Radar Entity Map [30], which identifies domains and directories because they are manually maintained by compa- names belonging to the same organizational entity. This pre- nies or the community. When a website adopts passkeys, vents large providers from disproportionately inflating the it must be added to these directories by hand to indicate overall passkey adoption rate. its support. These lists are commonly published by pass- word managers [1, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76],1 identity management providers [63], community-driven platforms [2, 71, 92, 93], 4 Passkeys in the Wild: Adoption and Real- and the FIDO alliance itself [37]. For instance, 1Password World Usage on Websites leverages its list to notify users when a website in their vault has added passkey support, encouraging them to upgrade their In this section, we answer RQ2 by presenting the first com- login credentials. prehensive analysis of passkeys on real-world websites. Our To compile our set of community directories, we study consists of two parts: (1) We analyze the adoption of searched Google for the terms “passkey/webauthn/2fa direc- passkeys over the past four years, highlighting their growth tory/websites/lists/community” and reviewed the first five across websites. (2) We then conduct the first in-depth inves- pages of results. We excluded forums, news articles, and blog tigation of how passkeys are implemented in practice, assess- posts announcing new passkey adoptions. Since our focus is ing, among other aspects, which features of the WebAuthn on websites, we also removed resources listing operating sys- standard [89] are employed and how resilient these implemen- tems, user agents, or authenticators. Finally, we used advanced tations prove to be. Moreover, we report on how passkeys can search features in ChatGPT and Perplexity, but these revealed be managed by users, such as being added or deleted, based no further directories beyond those already identified. on our observations during the analysis. Since February 2025, we have conducted weekly scans of these community directories to collect the most recent entries. 4.1 Part 1: Adoption of Passkeys To analyze historical trends, we also extended our tool to retrieve all archived snapshots of these directories from the When aggregating all upstream sources (§3.1), we identified Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine [90], with data dating 8,523 websites. Many of these were duplicates, as the same back to May 2021. sites appeared across multiple community directories. After merging (§3.2), 872 unique websites remained. Figure 5 depicts the adoption of passkeys on real-world 3.2 Merging Passkey-Enabled Websites websites over the past four years. Most directories emerged Each detection technique has its limitations. For exam- in late 2023 and early 2024, with varying update frequen- ple, community-maintained directories may overlook lesser- cies. 1Password [1] (passkeys.directory) proved to be the known websites, and well-known documents are still not most valuable source, offering the second largest but most widely deployed on the web. To address these shortcomings frequently updated collection of passkey-enabled sites. and improve the overall completeness of our dataset, we adopt The number of sites deploying the webauthn document [91] a methodology inspired by the Tranco top sites ranking [61, has grown significantly in the last 6 months, from 27 to 177 62]. At the core of this approach is the merger that aggregates websites (+650%). In contrast, adoption of the endpoints doc- entries from all detection sources into a single, unified list. ument [3] declined slightly, from 387 to 344 domains (-12%). While merging might seem trivial at first glance, it involves By combining multiple detection techniques for the first significant complexity due to the heterogeneous structure and time, we more than doubled the known number of passkey- enabled sites at the start of our study (see logarithmic scale 1 E.g., 1Password, 2Stable, Bitwarden, Dashlane, Enpass, Keeper in Figure 5). As a result, our PASSKEYS -R ADAR currently USENIX Association 35th USENIX Security Symposium 5043 1000 radar.passkeys.tools 750 +125% 500 scale change (log above) 400 well-known/endpoints 300 # Websites hideez.com passkeys.directory keepersecurity.com passkeys.2stable.com passkeys.2fa.directory 200 2fa.directory well-known/webauthn passkeys.com fidoalliance.org dashlane.com passkeyindex.io 100 enpass.io passkeys.io 0 archived data ← → start of our scans 07/2021 01/2022 07/2022 01/2023 07/2023 01/2024 07/2024 01/2025 07/2025 01/2026 Date Figure 5: Adoption of Passkeys from 05/2021 to 08/2025. represents the most comprehensive dataset of passkey-enabled Most websites provide some form of passkey management in sites, providing a solid foundation for future security analyses. the account settings, but there are exceptions. On 7 sites, a passkey can only be registered immediately after login and cannot be removed later, effectively creating a 4.2 Part 2: How Websites Implement Passkeys one-way upgrade: once a passkey is added, users are locked As a starting point, we used our merged list from April 22nd into it. A similar restriction exists on 6 sites where a passkey 2025, comprising 872 yet unconfirmed passkey-enabled do- must be registered at account creation and cannot be replaced mains. We manually reviewed all 872 sites and excluded 664 afterward. On 5 sites, the management interface lacks a delete from further analysis for 19 different reasons, as detailed button. On 3 sites, deleting a passkey requires authentication in Table 3. For example, we excluded 152 false positives with the same passkey, making deletion impossible if it is caused by missed duplicates and misclassifications (§7). We lost. Finally, on another 3 sites, users cannot delete individual also dismissed 334 potential passkey-enabled websites that passkeys but must remove all at once. could not be confirmed because we were unable to create ac- Equally problematic, users should be able to register multi- counts. Thus, we successfully verified 386 confirmed passkey- ple passkeys (e.g., a backup authenticator) to maintain access enabled websites. Among them, 178 sites relied on third-party if their primary one is lost. Yet, on 25 domains, only a single passkey providers (e.g., aid.no). Since all sites using the passkey can be used. same provider shared the same SDK-based setup, we ana- Moreover, deleting a passkey in a website’s account set- lyzed each provider only once to avoid inflated results. After tings does not automatically remove the corresponding cre- deduplication, 208 confirmed independent passkey implemen- dential stored on the authenticator. To address this mismatch, tations remained that we were able to analyze. browsers offer the signalAllAcceptedCredentials() [79] Confirming Passkey Registrations. When testing passkey and signalUnknownCredential() [80] APIs. They allow web- registrations, we observed that websites handle confirmation sites to notify the browser of all accepted credentials or ex- in different ways. Registering a passkey is a sensitive action, plicitly mark a credential as invalid. The browser then for- comparable to changing a password, as it grants lasting ac- wards this information to the authenticator to remove outdated cess to the account. Only 71 sites (34%) asked for an extra credentials and stay synchronized. In practice, however, we confirmation, most often through a password (37), email (25), found only 7 websites implementing these APIs, leaving many or SMS (6). The majority of sites (66%) allowed immediate “dead passkeys” on authenticators. registration without any additional confirmation. These sites Passkey Authentication Modes. Websites can start are more exposed to attacks in which an attacker could trick passkey authentications in three ways: a user into unintentionally adding the attacker’s passkey to (1) Discoverable Mode: Here, the user clicks on a “Log their account [19], something that would be much harder if in with Passkey” button. The authenticator then shows all an extra confirmation were required. passkeys that are valid for that website. If the user has multiple Removing Passkeys. When users lose access to their au- accounts, several passkeys may appear from which the user thenticator, e.g., due to theft, it is crucial that they can remove must choose one. In this case, the account is discovered on passkeys from their account to prevent unauthorized access. the authenticator. 5044 35th USENIX Security Symposium USENIX Association 200 140 gins that can use it. If a passkey is created for www.rp.com, 2FA 120 then only this domain and its subdomains can access it. In 150 addition, the passkey can be scoped to a parent domain up to Non-Discoverable # Domains 100 the registrable domain, such as rp.com. This broadens access # Domains 100 80 Discoverable to rp.com and all its subdomains. Best practice is to keep the 60 50 scope as narrow as possible and limited to the domains that ac- 40 Conditional tually need access to the passkey. For instance, if passkeys are 0 only required on login.rp.com, scoping them to rp.com PS256 EdDSA PS512 ES256 RS256 ES512 RS512 PS384 Other ES384 RS384 20 0 Deprecated Recomm. Not Recomm. creates unnecessary risks. If an attacker compromises any Mode Algorithm subdomain, the passkey can be misused to take over accounts. (a) Modes for Passwordless and (b) Requested vs. Supported Algs. We observed that 80 sites (38%) explicitly scope their 2FA Passkey Authentications. for Passkey Registrations. passkeys to the top-level domain, leaving them exposed to subdomain takeover attacks [86], a well-known threat on the Figure 6: Modes and Algorithms. modern web [84]. Common cases include passkeys created on subdomains like www (22), account[s] (16), app (13), or sso (4), which are then upscoped to the top-level domain. (2) Non-Discoverable Mode: Here, the user first enters a User Verification. To prevent passkeys from being stolen username on the website. The website checks its database to and misused, they enable user verification through biometrics see if passkeys are registered for that account. If they exist, the (e.g., facial recognition) or a PIN. This ensures two-factor website passes the allowed credential to the WebAuthn API, authentication: the user must both possess the device (“some- so the authenticator already knows which passkey to use. thing you have”) and verify their identity (“something you are In this case, the account is not discovered but predefined / know”). When verification succeeds, the authenticator sets on the website. This mode can also be used for two-factor the user verified bit in its flags to true. We found only 82 sites authentication, where the user submits both a username and a that required authenticators to perform user verification. 18 password before the passkey is requested as the second factor. sites explicitly disabled it, but since they used passkeys only (3) Conditional Mode: This works like the discoverable as a second factor, accounts remain protected if the authen- mode, but instead of clicking a button, the WebAuthn API ticator is lost. More concerning, another 17 sites explicitly is called automatically when the page loads. This improves disabled user verification while relying on passkeys for pass- usability, as a login with a passkey requires only one click. wordless authentication. In these cases, if the authenticator is Figure 6a shows that most websites use non-discoverable lost or stolen, an attacker could sign in to the victim’s account. mode, although many only use it for two-factor authentica- Authenticator Selection. RPs can request the use of ei- tion. For passwordless authentication, discoverable mode is ther a software authenticator (e.g., a phone) or a hardware more common. Interestingly, 8 websites use non-discoverable authenticator (e.g., a security key). A software authenticator mode for 2FA while also supporting discoverable mode for often runs on the same device where the user is signing in passwordless login. and offers an enhanced experience. A hardware authenticator Passkey Algorithms. The WebAuthn standard [89] does is always external and therefore provides hardware-backed not limit the signature and key algorithms that can be used. two-factor authentication. Only 22 sites (11%) explicitly re- Instead, all algorithms are defined in the IANA COSE al- quested a hardware authenticator and 5 sites actually enforce gorithms registry [16]. Figure 6b shows that websites usu- it. These websites cryptographically verify the use of a gen- ally support more algorithms than they request. Although uine hardware authenticator through attestation [89, §6.5]. deprecated and not recommended [16], ES256 (universally User Identifier. Because authenticators can reveal userids supported) and RS256 are the most common. An authenti- without user verification, the WebAuthn standard requires that cator limited to ES256 is therefore compatible with all sites. RPs must not store personal information (such as emails or In contrast, the RSASSA-PSS algorithms, although recom- usernames) in the userid [89, §14.6.1]. However, 8 sites still mended [16], are the least requested and supported. We also embed email addresses or usernames directly in the userid . identified 26 algorithm identifiers that are deprecated, unas- Key Attestation. By default, registering a credpubkey at signed, or incompatible with passkeys. For instance, the depre- a website does not require proving possession of the corre- cated RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 with SHA-1 was still requested sponding credprivkey . Key attestation can provide this proof. 5 times. Also, 8 sites requested symmetric HMAC algorithms, During registration, the authenticator signs the credpubkey with which cannot work with the asymmetric design of passkeys. the credprivkey . This allows RPs to confirm that the registering On 22 sites, all algorithms were supported except ES384, a party truly controls the private key. Such verification prevents unique pattern not observed for any other algorithm and likely an attacker from adding a victim’s credpubkey to their account caused by a library that omits this algorithm. and using it for session fixation attacks (see §6). However, Passkey Scopes. The scope of a passkey defines the ori- key attestation currently has no practical relevance on the USENIX Association 35th USENIX Security Symposium 5045 PASSKEYS- A TTACKER (§5) attacker.passkeys.tools online with keywords such as “webauthn/passkey/fido play- ground/debugger/tool” and inspected the first five pages. Ta- Virtual AC Database account registration Analyst ble 1 compares our tool with existing ones. In summary, most tools primarily focus on decoding passkey messages, which PASSKEYS- RADAR (§3) configures via web interface is essential for protocol analysis but insufficient for active radar.passkeys.tools simulates testing. Existing tools cannot handle advanced attacks like re- Attacker Victim play or session swap, which need awareness for user sessions or multiple profiles. For this reason, we created PASSKEYS - Reg. passkey controls Reg. passkey controls ATTACKER. It is the first tool that enables complete security Login passkey Login passkey testing of RPs in line with the WebAuthn standard [89]. In the following, we elucidate the identified requirements in depth. Decoding WebAuthn Messages. Most existing tools are designed for developer support rather than security testing Figure 7: PASSKEYS -ATTACKER enables semi-automatic se- and research. They are usually demo websites that trigger the curity analyses of passkey implementations on websites. WebAuthn API. The browser and authenticator then process Basic Attacks Extended Attacks the messages, and the website displays the decoded results. Encoding WebAuthn Messages. To manipulate Web- Passive Testing # Passive Tests Active Testing # Active Tests Session Swap Open Source User Swap Authn messages, tools must support both decoding and re- Key Swap Decoding Encoding Replay Tools Authors encoding. Only PASSKEY R AIDER and W EB D EVAUTHN pro- Passkeys Playground r-n-o ¥ # # # # – – # # # # vide this. However, W EB D EVAUTHN restricts modifications WebAuthn.io Duo Labs ¥ # G # # # – – # # # # DebAuthn [29] ¥ # G # # # – – # # # # to parameters that are hardcoded in its test cases. WebAuthn CBOR Decoder @srikanthramu ¥ – – SimpleWebAuthn @MasterKale ¥ # G # # # # # # – – # # # # # # # # Basic Attacks. Passive testing requires intercepting all fido2viewer @sbweeden ¥ # # # – – # # # # WebAuthn messages executed by the target website and de- WebAuthn Playground @opotonniee ¥ # # # – – # # # # Passkeys Playground Auth0 q # # # – – # # # # coding them. Two approaches exist: WebAuthn Playground Thinktecture Labs ¥ # # # – – # # # # WebAuthn Viewer @inabajunmr ¥ # # # – – # # # # (1) Intercepting HTTP Traffic: PASSKEY S CANNER and Passkeys Playground OwnID ¥ # # # – – # # # # Passkeys Debugger Corbado q # # # – – # # # # PASSKEY R AIDER are Burp Suite extensions that scan HTTP WebAuthn.me Auth0 ¥ # # # – – # # # # Passkeys Playground Passwordless.ID ¥ # # # – – # # # # traffic for WebAuthn messages. This approach is limited since Passkey Scanner @alexcowperthwaite ¥ 5 0 Passkey Raider @siamthanathack ¥ # # 0 0 # # # # # # # # there is no generic way to detect such messages in HTTP. For WebDevAuthn [45] ¥ # G 5 5 # # # G # example, PASSKEY R AIDER requires custom regular expres- PASSKEYS -ATTACKER This Paper ¥ 9 15 sions for each website, making large-scale studies impractical. Table 1: Requirements for Passkey Security Testing. Only the (2) Intercepting WebAuthn API Calls: W EB D EVAUTHN PASSKEYS -ATTACKER meets all requirements to comprehen- and PASSKEYS -ATTACKER hook directly into the browser sively test RPs against the specification [89]. API, providing a generic and website-independent way of intercepting messages. Both tools emulate the browser and authenticator, giving full control over all messages. web. We observed that only 66 sites request it and 85 sites Active testing requires an additional capability: modifying explicitly disable it, yet none reject registrations without it. intercepted and decoded messages (e.g., altering a signature or challenge) and re-encoding them. Only PASSKEY R AIDER and W EB D EVAUTHN can perform active attacks, with W EB - 5 PASSKEYS -ATTACKER: Semi-Automatic Se- D EVAUTHN implementing 7 selected tests. To the best of our curity Analysis of Passkey Implementations knowledge, our tool – PASSKEYS -ATTACKER – is the first one to support all passive (see §4.2) and active (see §6.2) tests The PASSKEYS -ATTACKER forms the answer to RQ3. In from the specification, doubling the coverage of prior tools. contrast to prior work, it enables a semi-automated analysis Extended Attacks. PASSKEYS -ATTACKER can addition- pipeline for evaluating the state-of-the-art security of passkey ally automate advanced attacks: implementations, as shown in Figure 7. (1) Replay Attacks: We track all WebAuthn messages and manipulations, enabling automated replay by substituting pa- rameters with previously used values. 5.1 Requirements for Passkey Security Testing (2) Key Swapping Attacks: Our credential management The WebAuthn specification [89, §7] lists detailed security system stores credids and keys separately, enabling automated considerations. Based on these, we derived requirements that testing of attacks where an attacker registers their credpubkey are necessary for security testing of passkey implementations. under a victim’s credid . We summarize them in Table 1. We then identified related (3) User Swapping Attacks: Our tool extracts user infor- tools that could assist in implementing them. We searched mation from messages and manages it automatically. This 5046 35th USENIX Security Symposium USENIX Association message tracing allows for automated user swapping attacks 5.3 PASSKEYS -ATTACKER Architecture where an attacker registers a key under a victim’s account. W EB D EVAUTHN supports these types of attacks only with The PASSKEYS -ATTACKER consists of three components as manual extraction and copy-paste of identifiers. depicted in Figure 7. (1) Browser Extension: The extension hooks into all Web- (4) Session Swapping Attacks: We simulate two indepen- Authn APIs and intercepts their calls. Instead of using the dent browsers, one for the victim and one for the attacker, with browser’s built-in WebAuthn handling, it opens a popup that the tool tracking context awareness. This enables automated loads the virtual client and authenticator, forwarding the full replacement of parameters between sessions. request with all parameters. It also adds contextual metadata, such as the origin and current operation (create or get), which is required for correct simulation. After processing, the extension resolves the original API call with the modified 5.2 Semi-Automated Analysis Approach result. It can run in “attacker” or “victim” mode to ensure the virtual client and authenticator act in the right context. Our Desired Goal: Full Automation. To examine whether (2) Virtual Client and Authenticator: This core com- complete automation of our passkey analyses is feasible, we ponent decodes, inspects, modifies (applies attacks), and re- randomly selected five passkey-enabled websites. We built a encodes WebAuthn messages. It manages users and keys in a prototype tool using Playwright [34] and the agentic LLM- context-aware way. For example, it restricts access to attacker- based Browser Use framework [14]. The tool attempted to owned keys when in attacker mode. execute passkey registrations, authentications, and deletions (3) Database: The virtual client and authenticator can run without any manual steps. In practice, it succeeded on only either standalone or with a shared database. In standalone one of the five sites, for the reasons discussed below. mode, all data (users, keys, history) is stored in the browser’s Automation Hurdles. Our analyses require repeated exe- localStorage, suitable for testing with a single browser con- cution of passkey registrations, authentications, and deletions. text. In shared mode, the database enables testing across mul- These are custom and highly sensitive operations, and web- tiple browser contexts (i.e., victim and attacker). This allows sites protect them with strong measures that make automation fully automated cross-context scenarios, such as replaying an hard if not impossible. Common obstacles include a com- attacker challenge in the victim’s session. bination of (1) customized UIs, (2) confirmation prompts, (3) password re-entry, (4) 2FA checks via email, SMS, OTP, 6 Passkey Security: From Standard Violations backup codes, or security questions, (5) CAPTCHAs, and (6) rate limiting. Another challenge was the absence of com- to RP-Specific Key Management Failures mon success indicators, as error messages were often unclear. In this section, we answer RQ4 with the first comprehensive Our Result: Semi-Automated Approach. Thus, we analysis of how secure passkeys are implemented on the web. adopted a semi-automated methodology, which is in line with prior work on post-authentication web security [81]. An im- portant consideration in our design was ethical responsibility. 6.1 Methodology In particular, we did not use automatic CAPTCHA solvers, Attack Scope. We focus on threats known to the standard- since this would bypass protections designed to prevent au- ization community that directly affect RPs. As a basis, we tomation. Our manual effort is limited to: (1) registering carefully studied the WebAuthn standard [89], which out- two test accounts per site, (2) adding and deleting passkeys, lines security and privacy considerations for RPs in §13.4 and (3) starting the passkey authentication. Once the Web- and §14.6. It also defines mandatory validation checks for Authn API is invoked, the PASSKEYS -ATTACKER takes over registrations and authentications in §7.1 and §7.2. From this, and runs the entire security analysis automatically. Develop- we identified 15 Attack Types (ATs) that RPs must defend ers who already maintain automated tests for account man- against. We then created 28 Detection Methods (DMs) to agement could integrate our tool to achieve fully automated examine whether RPs implement these protections securely. evaluation of their passkey implementations. Table 2 provides an overview of our attack catalog. Manual Account Registration. We created two Gmail Impact Assessment. To evaluate the impact of missing addresses, one for the attacker and one for the victim, and validations, we researched all known CVEs related to Web- used them to register accounts on all passkey-enabled sites. Authn and passkeys. For each AT, we checked for matching We used realistic fictional data for usernames and personal CVEs and included them in Table 2. From these, we extracted details, along with two valid phone numbers for verification the CVSS scores and CWE classes to decide upon severity codes. Non-English sites were translated with Chrome’s built- and weakness. If no related CVEs existed, we reported the in translation feature. Whenever possible, we registered via weaknesses as new findings and estimated their severity by passwords, resorting to SSO only when necessary. similar vulnerabilities or attack patterns from other domains. USENIX Association 35th USENIX Security Symposium 5047 103 analyzed websites 100 100% -5% the Tranco top 1k. This observation is an indication that larger -13% platforms face greater challenges in fully implementing all 80 -18% Overall Susceptibility -21% validations. In contrast, smaller sites may benefit from relying # Websites 60 on secure third-party libraries. Registration vs. Authentication. Most attack types af- 40 fect both the registration and authentication phase, and RPs 20 must apply the same protections in both phases. However, we observed that many websites fail a validation in one phase 0 Critical High Medium None ≤1k ≤100k ≤500k ≤1M >1M while securing the other. For example, 9 sites do not validate CVSS Severity Tranco Rank the session binding of the challenge during registration, and (a) Number of vulnerable web- (b) Susceptibility of websites by 14 fail to do so during authentication. This may result from sites by CVSS severity (criti- their Tranco rank. Lower ranked developers implementing checks separately or from libraries cal, high, medium, none). Lower sites are overall less susceptible. lacking a unified configuration for both phases. means less vulnerable websites. Lower means more secure. In the following, we present selected Attack Types (ATs) in more detail and illustrate them with real-world examples. Figure 8: Vulnerabilities by Tranco Rank and Attack Types. 6.2.1 CWE-347: Improper Verification of Crypto- Attacker Model. We assume that the victim’s browser graphic Signature and authenticator are secure and follow the specification. The attacker controls their browser and authenticator via the AT: Signature (Critical). The signature verification is the PASSKEYS -ATTACKER, allowing arbitrary manipulation of most critical step in the passkey authentication flow. Still, we WebAuthn messages. We further assume the attacker can lure found 5 websites that completely skip this check, which is a victims to a malicious site and trick them into registering or critical security issue. We confirmed these vulnerabilities and using passkeys (“web attacker”). If an attack has additional were able to sign in to the victim’s account. requirements, we outline them in Table 2. AT: Context (Medium). A less severe but still relevant Evaluation Scope. For our security analysis, we had to issue for 12 sites arises from improper verification of the manually register a fresh passkey for each DM. On 105 of the signing context. The idea of this attack is to use a signed 208 websites, however, this was difficult or infeasible for sev- registration challenge for user authentication. This context eral reasons. As described in §4, websites integrate passkeys switch is known as signature confusion. in different ways. Some deploy them only as a second factor, which is incompatible with our attacker model. Others re- 6.2.2 CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User- strict accounts to a single passkey without offering a removal Controlled Key mechanism. In addition, some sites enforce further hurdles, such as email or SMS verification, CAPTCHAs, 2FA, or strict AT: Credential Overwrite (Critical). This novel AT targets rate limiting. Consequently, we were able to conduct a full how the RP manages passkeys in its database. Every RP security evaluation on 103 websites. hosts several users, each distinguished by a userid . Users may possess various credentials, each labeled by a credid . The relation is one-to-many: a user may own many credentials, but 6.2 Vulnerabilities each credential must belong to exactly one user. The attacker Table 2 summarizes the results of our semi-automatic security creates a credential that seems to belong to both the victim evaluation. We found that all of the analyzed websites (103) and the attacker simultaneously, challenging this assumption. are vulnerable to at least one AT. This highlights a significant This ambiguity causes confusion during sign-in. gap between the specification and real-world practice, likely Requirements. This AT requires knowing the victim’s caused by the complexity of the WebAuthn standard. credid . It is public since RPs reveal them without authentica- Attack Severity. Figure 8a shows that most missing valida- tion (see §6.2.7). The victim’s credpubkey is harder to obtain, tions fall into attack types with medium or negligible impact. as it is stored only on the authenticator and the RP’s database. However, 53 sites are vulnerable to high-severity threats and Still, the specification assumes that security must hold even if 18 sites to critical-severity threats, which is concerning. the database leaks, so we treat this as a plausible threat. Tranco Ranking. We initially expected insufficient vali- DM: Swap credid . The attacker registers a new passkey dations to be more common on less popular sites, given the by combining their own credpubkey with the victim’s credid . A complexity of the standard. To test this, we compared the total secure implementation must detect the duplicate credid and number of validation issues across all analyzed websites. Fig- reject it. If misconfigured, three outcomes are possible: ure 8b reveals a different picture: lower-ranked sites and even (1) Database Update: The RP replaces the victim’s unranked ones are less susceptible than higher-ranked sites in credpubkey with the attacker’s credpubkey . This locks the victim 5048 35th USENIX Security Symposium USENIX Association # Vuln. RPs Attack Type (AT) CVSS CVE CWE Requirement Validation [89] RW Detection Method (DM) Reg. Auth. ∪ Improper Verification of Bit Flip: Flip the last bit of the signature – 5 Use credpubkey to verify signature over authData Signature 9.8 – Cryptographic Signature – 5 and clientData (§7.2.21) (CWE-347) Authorization Bypass Swap credid +credpubkey : Register passkey with victim’s credid and credpubkey 13 – Leaked credid and/or Credential Overwrite 9.1 [23] Through User-Controlled credid is not yet registered for any user (§7.1.26) Swap credid : Register passkey with victim’s credid and attacker’s credpubkey 12 – 14 credpubkey Key (CWE-639) Swap credpubkey : Register passkey with attacker’s credid and victim’s credpubkey 2 – Externally Controlled Dangling Domains: Check if related origins contain registrable domain – 1 Include only active and trusted related origins Related Origins 8.8 – Reference to a Resource in – 1 (§5.11) Another Sphere (CWE-610) [44] Bit Flip: Flip last bit of challenge 1 1 Leaked or injected challenge clientData.challenge is options.challenge Challenge 8.2 [27] Session Fixation (CWE-384) Reuse: Use challenge that has already been used 8 5 22 (e.g. via XSS or CSRF) (§7.1.8, §7.2.11) Session Binding: Use valid challenge from another session 9 14 [44] Cross-Site: Set clientData.origin to a different site 7 5 Origin Validation Error Origin 8.1 [26] Subdomain Takeover [84] clientData.origin is trusted (§7.1.9, §7.2.12) [44] Subdomain: Set clientData.origin to a subdomain 23 23 40 (CWE-346) Parent Domain: Set clientData.origin to a parent domain 31 23 [44] Cross-Site: Set authData.hash(rpid ) to the hash of a different site 8 4 Origin Validation Error authData.hash(rpid ) is hash(options.rpid ) RP ID 8.1 [26] Subdomain Takeover [84] Subdomain: Set authData.hash(rpid ) to the hash of a subdomain 7 4 9 (CWE-346) (§7.1.14, §7.2.15) Parent Domain: Set authData.hash(rpid ) to the hash of a parent domain 5 3 Improper Authentication Physical access to authData.flags.UV is true if options. [44] Unset: Set authData.flags.UV to false 8 6 User Verified 6.8 [21] 10 (CWE-287) authenticator userVerification is required (§7.1.16, §7.2.17) Improper Verification of Nonsense: Set context to “abc.def” 5 4 Access to valid attestation clientData.type is “webauthn.create” / Context 6.4 – Cryptographic Signature Swap: Swap context create ↔ get 11 8 12 signature (e.g. via XSS) “webauthn.get” (§7.1.7, §7.2.10) (CWE-347) Improper Authentication Unset: Set authData.flags.UP to false 21 16 User Present 5.9 [22] Malware authData.flags.UP is true (§7.1.15, §7.2.16) 27 (CWE-287) Return imaginary credids in requestOptions. Random: Identify as random user. requestOptions.allowCredentials empty? – 68 Observable Response Allow Credentials 5.3 [25] – allowCredentials for non-existing accounts 68 Discrepancy (CWE-204) (§14.6.2, §14.6.3) If clientData.crossOrigin is true, check if framing Cross-Origin: Set clientData.crossOrigin to true 99 87 Improper Restriction of No generic clickjacking by other origins is allowed and if Cross-Site: Set clientData.topOrigin to a different site 93 92 Framing 5.1 – Rendered UI Layers or 102 protections in place [17] clientData.topOrigin is trusted Subdomain: Set clientData.topOrigin to a subdomain 94 92 Frames (CWE-1021) (§7.1.10+11, §7.2.13+14) Parent Domain: Set clientData.topOrigin to a parent domain 84 84 Improper Authentication Physical access to cloned authData.sigcnt is greater than previously stored [44] Reduce: Set authData.sigcnt to 2. Login. Set authData.sigcnt to 1. Login. – 57 Signature Counter 4.8 [24] 57 (CWE-287) authenticator sigcnt (§7.2.22) authData.flags.BS is false if authData.flags.BE is Mutual Exclusion: Set authData.flags.BE to false and authData.flags.BS to true 58 57 Backup State 0.0 – – Authenticator is lost 65 false (§7.1.17, §7.2.18) authData.flags.BE is equal in registration and Swap On: Register authData.flags.BE=false. Login authData.flags.BE=on. – 55 Backup Eligible 0.0 – – Authenticator is lost 57 authentication (§7.2.19) Swap Off: Register authData.flags.BE=true. Login authData.flags.BE=false. – 55 Length of credid 0.0 – – – credid .length ≤ 1023 bytes (§7.1.25) Length 1024: Set credid to 1024 random bytes 48 – 48 Vulnerable websites with CVSS severity: Critical (18), High (53), Medium (103), None (81), All combined: 103 (of 103 analyzed RPs) Table 2: Evaluation Results and Test Catalog. We analyzed 103 RPs with PASSKEYS -ATTACKER and found at least one security issue in all of them. Prior work covered 5 ATs. We extend these with new DMs and introduce 10 additional ATs. out, since the victim does not have access to the matching (2) Browser retrieves rp.co.uk credprivkey owned by the attacker. We found 5 vulnerable sites. whitelist from rp.com (rp id ) rp.com/.well- known/webauthn (1) Call WebAuthn API - rp.de (3) rp.co.uk is whitelisted - rp.co.uk - rp id = rp.com ? browser allows access - relying- party.com - challenge = 1234 (2) Database Append: The RP stores two credpubkeys under (4) Sign challenge using passkey scoped to rp.com the same credid . During authentication, querying this credid (6) Resolve WebAuthn API Authenticator (5) sign(privkey rp.com , 1234) and send signature to returns multiple keys, which causes internal errors and blocks backend to log in the user logins. We observed this on 3 sites. If the attacker deletes the duplicate from their account, the victim can sign in again. Figure 9: CWE-610: Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere. (3) Database Delete: The RP deletes the victim’s creden- tial when a duplicate credid is added. On 3 sites, attackers can delete passkeys of all users and weaken their account security. 6.2.3 CWE-610: Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere DM: Swap credid +credpubkey . Here, the attacker regis- AT: Related Origins (High). Some organizations need to ters the victim’s credpubkey with the victim’s credid in the use the same passkey across multiple country code Top-Level attacker’s account. If the RP uses the credid without the userid Domains (ccTLDs), such as rp.com and rp.co.uk. By default, for credential lookup during authentication, session swapping this is blocked by the browser. The ROR feature [89, §5.11] becomes possible. When the victim later signs in with the enables shared domains by allowing RPs to publish a list of credprivkey , the signature is valid and the victim is logged related origins that may share the same passkey. in to the attacker’s account. This can cause sensitive data Consider a user who logs in to rp.co.uk (see Figure 9): disclosure, for example when the victim uploads files. We (1) The RP calls the WebAuthn API with the rpid set to rp.com. successfully carried out this AT on 3 sites. (2) Since rp.co.uk and rp.com are cross-site, the browser USENIX Association 35th USENIX Security Symposium 5049 fetches the whitelist from a well-known location at rp.com. Off- Path Relying Off- Path Relying Attacker Party (RP) Attacker Party (RP) (3) Because rp.co.uk appears in the whitelist, the browser Passkey Authentication Passw ord Authentication allows access. (4) The browser requests a signature of the Username: user unknown Username: user unknown challenge using the passkey for the rpid . (5) The authenticator " Invalid username" Password: " Invalid username" signs the challenge and returns it. (6) The API call completes. allowCredentials=[] " Invalid username or password" DM: Dangling Domains. Maintaining such whitelists is Username: user password Username: user password risky if they contain dangling domains that are no longer con- allowCredentials=[] allowCredentials=[] Password: " Invalid password" trolled by the RP or have expired. For example, relying- ⌋ " Invalid username or password" Username: user passkey party.com could be an expired domain that can be re- allowCredentials=[] registered (cf. Figure 9). If an attacker acquires it and serves a malicious site, they gain access to the victim’s passkey on rp.com and can compromise the account. Figure 10: CWE-204: Observable Response Discrepancy. Red errors are distinguishable, enabling account enumeration. We identified 2,177 related origins listed in whitelists Green errors are indistinguishable, preventing such leaks. across 177 domains. The largest whitelist contained 102 ori- gins, making management especially difficult. We resolved all domains using Google’s DNS API [51] and checked for 6.2.6 CWE-287: Improper Authentication dangling entries. Using the Namecheap API [8], we found one allowlisted domain available for registration for 10C/year. AT: User Verified (Medium). In §4.2, we showed that If acquired, it would allow an attacker to take over accounts 82 sites explicitly requested user verification, for example on 72 related origins. through biometrics. However, 10 sites did not check whether verification was actually performed. This creates a false sense of security: the site assumes verification took place, even if it 6.2.4 CWE-384: Session Fixation did not. An attacker who steals a victim’s security key could then log in without biometrics or a PIN. While this usually AT: Challenge (High). The challenge is the only randomized requires physical access to the authenticator, there are more input in the signature generation and changes with every au- scenarios. For instance, if a victim carries an NFC-enabled se- thentication flow. It binds the signed assertion to both, the cur- curity key in a pocket, an attacker could hold a phone nearby rent flow and the user’s session. This binding protects against and immediately sign in to the victim’s account [83]. replay attacks if a signed assertion is leaked (e.g., via XSS). It AT: User Presence (Medium). Malware on a user’s system additionally blocks injection attempts (e.g., via CSRF) where can misuse the authenticator as a signing oracle and gener- an attacker tries to log a victim into the attacker’s account. ate valid assertions for other websites. To prevent this, the Despite its importance, we found 22 sites that do not properly specification requires a user presence check for every signing validate the challenge, leaving them vulnerable if attackers operation, such as touching the security key. If this check is can steal or inject signed assertions. missing, an attacker could obtain signatures unnoticed and use them to compromise the victim’s account. AT: Signature Counter (Medium). Each authenticator maintains a signature counter that increases with each signing 6.2.5 CWE-346: Origin Validation Error operation. When an attacker logs into the victim’s account with a cloned authenticator [82], the counter increases. Later, AT: Origin & rpid (High). Passwords are prone to phishing; when the victim signs in with the original device, the counter however, passkeys are phishing-resistant because browsers is lower. The RP can detect this mismatch and warn the vic- block malicious sites from accessing passkeys belonging to tim about the inconsistency. We found that over half of the different sites. Unfortunately, browsers allow subdomains websites ignore the counter, while the rest block the logins to use passkeys scoped to their parent domain. This makes when counters are out of sync. related-domain attackers relevant, such as those who gain control of a subdomain or sibling domain through subdomain takeover. Prior work [84] shows that such cases are common. 6.2.7 CWE-204: Observable Response Discrepancy To mitigate this, the WebAuthn standard requires browsers AT: Allow Credentials (Medium). Passkey logins are prone to include the full origin of the passkey operation, so that the to account enumeration, where attackers learn whether an RP can decide whether to trust it and reject requests from account exists. In non-discoverable mode, the attacker submits untrusted sub- or sibling domains. Yet, we found 40 sites that a username on the RP’s login page. If the account exists do not validate the origin, allowing attackers on malicious sub- and has passkeys, the RP returns the user’s credids in the or sibling domains to use the RP’s passkey, making phishing allowCredentials parameter of the requestOptions. Although attacks possible again. credids are random bytes, their presence reveals that (1) the 5050 35th USENIX Security Symposium USENIX Association victim has an account, and (2) the victim uses passkeys on FIDO2-based 2FA deployments remain within scope. this site. The WebAuthn standard addresses this by requiring (4) Scope Drift: Some community directories include RPs to return random placeholder credids for accounts without not only websites but also third-party passkey providers or passkeys or for non-existent accounts [89, §14.6.2]. platform-level support (e.g., OS or browser features). DM: Random. Detecting account enumeration requires Limited Representativeness of the Dataset. Our 208-site three user accounts: (1) userunknown : a random, non-existent dataset (§4.2) is biased toward publicly accessible, consumer- account, (2) userpassword : an existing account with password facing services. Certain sectors, such as online banking, could authentication, and (3) userpasskey : an existing account with not be systematically evaluated due to the lack of suitable test passkey authentication. The detection process works as fol- accounts. Similarly, the 103-site security evaluation (§6) is bi- lows (see left side of Figure 10): (1) Submitting userunknown ased toward websites that permit passkey registration without should return a random placeholder in allowCredentials. additional verification steps. Such sites may systematically (2) Submitting userpassword should again return a random exhibit weaker protections, as they apply fewer safeguards placeholder. (3) Submitting userpasskey must return the real during passkey enrollment. credid . Any deviation (e.g., allowCredentials being empty) Different Authentication Backends. It is not possible to exposes an observable difference. We also tested password automatically determine whether multiple domains operated authentication [97] (see right side of Figure 10), by submit- by the same provider (e.g., gmail.com and youtube.com) ting userunknown and userpassword with wrong passwords and share a common authentication backend. Across our 872- comparing the responses. site dataset, we manually identified only four cases in which We found 68 websites vulnerable to account enumeration merged domains later turned out to rely on distinct passkey in their passkey authentication. Fewer sites (43) were vul- backends (e.g., linkedin.com and microsoft.com). nerable in their password authentication, often returning uni- form errors such as “Invalid username or password”. More concerning, 25 sites that correctly protected their password 8 Related Work authentication failed to do so for passkeys. In these cases, adopting passkeys reduced security, which is alarming. Adoption. Previous studies on passkey adoption were mainly focused on manual analyses. In 2021, Ulqinaku et al. [88] 6.2.8 CWE-1021: Improper Restriction of Rendered UI inspected the Alexa Top 100 and found FIDO2 support on Layers or Frames 23 sites. A year later, Kepkowski et al. [53] scanned the Cisco Umbrella Top 1M and identified 684 sites indicating AT: Framing (Medium). During each WebAuthn operation, WebAuthn usage by detecting the navigator.credentials ⌋ the browser reports to the RP whether it is displayed in a frame .create property in JavaScript resources. In 2023, Kuchhal and, if so, on which origin. The RP must check this to prevent et al. [56] analyzed the Tranco Top 1k and found 85 sites clickjacking attacks [18]. Such attacks use hidden or overlap- supporting WebAuthn while Gavazzi et al. [40] found 12 sites ping layers to mislead a user into interacting with a different on the Tranco Top 5k. Later, Blessing et al. [13] studied the page than intended. We found that all but one website failed Tranco Top 200 and reported 28 sites offering WebAuthn. Our to validate the built-in clickjacking protections of WebAuthn. work goes beyond these efforts with automated continuous Without additional safeguards, attackers could trick users into scanning, merging multiple detection methods, and perform- registering or authenticating passkeys on unintended sites. ing archived data analysis. Security of RPs. Only a few studies have examined the 7 Limitations real-world security of RPs. Grammatopoulos et al. [45] in- troduced WebDevAuthn, a tool for capturing WebAuthn re- Overestimation of Adoption Rate. Our automated detec- quests and responses for manual analysis and inspection. They tion of passkey-enabled websites inevitably produces false used it to assess conformance and security of 16 RPs [44], positives, which leads to an overestimation of the adoption. but their tool and evaluation missed advanced attack types (1) Missed Duplicates: Although we merge websites to such as replay, key swapping, and session swapping. Kuchhal reduce duplicates, complete deduplication is not possible. For et al. [56] systematized threats under the assumption of a instance, minecraft.com and microsoft.com rely on the compromised client (e.g., malware) and studied FIDO2 con- same authentication backend but are not covered in [30]. figurations of 29 RPs. They found that many sites used weak (2) TOTP Misclassifications: Some community directories configurations, leaving users vulnerable once their devices incorrectly include TOTP-only sites. While majority voting were compromised. In contrast, we conducted an active se- across sources could mitigate this, it would also remove less curity evaluation of 103 RPs using the web attacker model. frequently listed sites, which we deliberately retained. Yadav et al. [98] analyzed FIDO2’s resilience against local (3) U2F Misclassifications: Our analysis focuses on Web- threats such as malicious browser extensions, XSS, or physi- Authn and FIDO2. We excluded U2F-only deployments, but cal access to authenticators. They identified seven attacks and USENIX Association 35th USENIX Security Symposium 5051 demonstrated them with a malicious browser extension on ten key identifiers enables attacks such as unauthorized removal popular web servers using FIDO2. of passkeys, account blocking, or even takeover. Usability Studies. While FIDO has advanced passwordless Passkeys do not remove all risks, but they make large-scale authentication, adoption still faces many barriers. Challenges account takeovers far harder and shift many threats to compli- arise from usability issues [7, 39, 58, 65], difficulties for em- ance issues. They represent clear progress for web authenti- ployees and companies [32, 33, 52, 59, 60] and the public cation, though careful attention to protocol compliance and sector [49], technical hurdles in implementation [5, 6], user management remains essential to avoid severe problems. misconceptions [57], and interpersonal threats [28]. Formal Analyses. The FIDO2 standards have been exam- ined with formal methods to prove their security and privacy, Acknowledgments identify potential weaknesses, and investigate post-quantum The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their valu- security of the underlying protocols [9, 10, 11, 12, 35, 46, able feedback. This research was funded by the Deutsche 47, 48]. While these works concentrate on the standards, our Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Founda- study focuses on how WebAuthn is used on the Internet. tion) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2092 CASA – 390781972. Louis Jannett was supported by the 9 Concluding Remarks research project “North-Rhine Westphalian Experts in Re- search on Digitalization (NERD II)”, sponsored by the state This paper sheds first light on how passkeys are deployed on of North Rhine-Westphalia – NERD II 005-2201-0014. the web. With PASSKEYS -R ADAR, we conducted the largest evaluation of real-world passkey implementations to date and Ethical Considerations identified 872 passkey-enabled websites. Historic data shows a steady rise in deployments over the past four years. Our research focuses on testing the security of websites by ma- Passkeys mark a major step in securing website logins. nipulating the WebAuthn protocol flow and messages during They reduce the attack surface of passwords by embedding au- our own passkey registrations and authentications. The stake- thentication directly into browsers and authenticators, where holders involved in this study are: (1) the RPs whose websites layered protections improve resilience against flaws in RPs. we tested, (2) their users, (3) our research team members, and Our study, however, reveals that adoption remains incon- (4) all users relying on passkeys for authentication. sistent. Many RPs apply the WebAuthn specification only RP Interactions. For the 208 analyzed RPs, we manually partially. Almost all request deprecated algorithms, and key created two testing accounts per site, using only fictitious data attestation is rarely used despite its role as a security feature. without any personal or sensitive information. Our activities To measure compliance, we developed the PASSKEYS - were limited to registering accounts, registering passkeys, au- ATTACKER. It lets researchers inspect and manipulate mes- thenticating with them, and manually navigating the websites. sages at every step in the WebAuthn protocol. One limitation Since all interactions were performed manually, no excessive is that it cannot fully automate account and passkey registra- load was placed on the tested services. We did not employ tions, which restricts scalability. Another limitation is cover- automated CAPTCHA solvers or similar tools. age: we could not test all 872 websites, since account creation Security Testing. All security tests were conducted exclu- often failed and many services blocked repeated passkey reg- sively with our own two testing accounts, ensuring that no istrations. As a result, we focused on a subset of 103 sites, other users were affected. Identified vulnerabilities were not tested manually by three researchers over three weeks. exploited beyond what was necessary to demonstrate proof Still, the PASSKEYS -ATTACKER is first to automate ad- of concept. In particular, we did not access, compromise, or vanced scenarios such as session swapping and message re- interfere with any other accounts or passkeys. play. We will announce the tool to the passkey standardization Responsible Disclosure. We responsibly disclosed all criti- community and make it easily accessible, so that developers, cal and high-severity findings to 61 affected websites. To date, researchers, and penetration testers can quickly find it and 12 websites have fixed the reported issues, including 6 that use it for their analyses. Future work may also extend its use awarded a bug bounty. As of December 2025, we cannot con- beyond websites to test passkey libraries [78] and third-party firm remediation for the remaining websites due to a lack of services that promise to streamline passkey adoption [75]. response (15), missing follow-up communication after initial Our evaluation shows that vulnerabilities persist, especially acknowledgment (8), requests for website-specific proof-of- at the interface between the browser’s WebAuthn API and concept material that we cannot provide due to unmet attack RPs. Although the specification mandates strict validations, requirements (16), or the issues being considered out of scope none of the tested sites enforced them fully. About every sec- by the affected parties (6). For 3 websites, reporting was not ond site contained critical or high-severity issues. Weaknesses possible due to platform restrictions (e.g., minimum reputa- are common in passkey management, where poor handling of tion requirements on HackerOne). In one case, the reported 5052 35th USENIX Security Symposium USENIX Association issue had already been resolved prior to our disclosure. harm and enable timely remediation, we followed a coordi- We will continue to support the vendors by retesting de- nated vulnerability disclosure process: we first shared our ployed patches and providing feedback to help strengthen findings with the relevant vendors to enable them to imple- the overall security of passkey authentication. By the time of ment the necessary fixes and protect their users. Only after publication, all vendors had at least 6 months to address the this remediation phase do we disclose our results to the wider reported vulnerabilities. public through this publication, benefiting all users who rely on passkeys for authentication. We believe that this process, and the resulting improvements to the ecosystem, justify both Retrospective Ethical Considerations the study and its publication. Releasing our Tool. The release of PASSKEYS -ATTACKER is intended to assist researchers and developers in identifying Open Science and addressing vulnerabilities in passkey implementations. Our project website is available at https://passkeys. Thereby, we improve the overall passkey security and con- tools. All tools, source code, and artifacts are publicly tribute to safer and more robust authentication systems. available via GitHub (https://github.com/RUB-NDS/ We acknowledge the risk that malicious actors could state-of-passkeys-artifacts) and Zenodo (https:// use PASSKEYS -ATTACKER to identify vulnerabilities, poten- doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17898769). tially leading to harmful applications. However, PASSKEYS - A continuously running instance of our PASSKEYS -R ADAR ATTACKER is designed for use with two testing accounts that is available at https://radar.passkeys.tools. It offers are owned by the analyst, and it only probes with proof of live statistics on passkey adoption and visualizes the per- concepts that do not interfere with anything else than one formance of individual detection sources. Researchers can of their own testing accounts. Indeed, it remains a risk that explore aggregated lists of passkey-enabled websites for any PASSKEYS -ATTACKER could be adapted to attack accounts given date, with detailed coverage per domain and source. All that are not owned by the analyst and generate payloads that merged lists are available for download as JSON files, and violate their intended ethical constraints. In the worst case, the full dataset can be accessed through our public API. Our the malicious actor could gain access to the victim’s account ongoing scans will ensure long-term monitoring of passkeys. or overwrite their passkeys. We also provide a publicly accessible instance of the Overall, we see PASSKEYS -ATTACKER as being in line PASSKEYS -ATTACKER at https://attacker.passkeys. with well-established and publicly-accessible vulnerability tools. Together with the browser extension (downloadable scanning tools2 . We clearly see the benefits of releasing our from the website) and our preconfigured public database, this tool to outweigh the risks it may introduce. Through our re- allows anyone to replicate our testing setup without requir- sponsible disclosure, we noticed that vendors and triagers ing local installation. The entire setup is containerized with actively used and showed particular appreciation for our tool. Docker and Docker Compose, simplifying local deployments. One passkey developer remarked: “It enables in-depth test- Our artifacts are organized as follows: ing that was simply not possible before.” The tool is further (1) ./radar: Source code of the PASSKEYS -R ADAR. usable only in a semi-automated fashion, making security (2) ./detector: Source code for scanning well-known files. analyses for pentesters easier but still not allowing for au- (3) ./tools: Source code of the PASSKEYS -ATTACKER. tomated vulnerability scanning. We strongly emphasize the (4) ./data: Artifacts for the PASSKEYS -R ADAR, including need for responsible use of the tool, explicitly discourage the community directories, combined, and merged lists. any unethical applications, and provide clear guidelines to (5) ./notebooks: Jupyter notebooks for analyzing evalua- minimize the likelihood of misuse. tion data (sheet.csv) and generating paper figures. We will contact the FIDO Alliance to promote our tool and request its inclusion on the public lists of passkey tools3 . Additionally, we will discuss the integration of PASSKEYS - References ATTACKER into the official FIDO compliance tool [42] with the alliance. We strongly advocate for open science and will [1] 1Password. Passkeys.directory. [Online; accessed therefore release all tools and artifacts on GitHub to maximize 2025-08-06]. URL: https : / / passkeys . availability, functionality, and reproducibility. directory/. Research Benefits. 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Σ 664 forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/05/23/ 184162718 - passwords - and - logins - leaked --- Table 3: Reasons for Excluding Websites From Our Analysis. apple-facebook-snapchat/. 5058 35th USENIX Security Symposium USENIX Association