- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:59:45 -0800
- To: "Close, Tyler J." <tyler.close@hp.com>
- CC: Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai@us.ibm.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>, "public-appformats@w3.org" <public-appformats@w3.org>
Close, Tyler J. wrote: > Hi Jon, > > Jon Ferraiolo wrote: >> * The Access Control mechanism MUST not broaden the attack >> surface for hackers, particularly with regard to CSRF > > Could you elaborate a bit on this contraint? For example, one > interpretation might be that the currently proposed mechanism > violates this constraint since any cookies or HTTP Auth credentials > the user may have are included in the request sent to the server > (the opposite of what's done in the JSONRequest proposal). In essense, > the current proposal is one for determining the set of hosts that are > allowed to issue CSRF requests, which is a broadening of the CSRF attack surface. Does this really broaden the attack surface since it is already possible to do GET requests, that includes cookies and HTTP Auth credentials, to any uri on any server by simply pointing an <img> to that uri? / Jonas
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