Re: CSRF and clickjacking not mentioned in "HTTP/1.1, part 7: Authentication"

Tyler Close wrote:
> The "Security Considerations" section of "HTTP/1.1, part 7:
> Authentication" should mention that the mechanism is vulnerable to
> Confused Deputy attacks such as Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (CSRF) and
> clickjacking. Is someone working on text for this, or should I propose
> some?
> 
> See:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-08#section-5
> ...

Hi Tyler,

as far as I can tell, nobody is currently working on this.

I can't speak for the whole group, but I would be *very* happy if you 
would look not only at Part 7, producing proposals on what should be 
said. Note that we should be careful in adding too much text though; in 
the past we were working on a separate spec, 
<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/draft-ietf-httpbis-security-properties/>, 
which might be a better container for some of this.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 25 November 2009 15:18:58 UTC