FW: iframe tag attack

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From: public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Thomas Roessler
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 3:49 PM
To: Doyle, Bill
Cc: Dan Schutzer; Mike Beltzner; Rachna Dhamija; public-wsc-wg@w3.org
Subject: Re: iframe tag attack


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On 2007-06-22 19:47:16 +0000, Doyle, Bill wrote:
> From: "Doyle, Bill" <wdoyle@mitre.org>
> To: Dan Schutzer <dan.schutzer@fstc.org>,
> 	Mike Beltzner <beltzner@mozilla.com>,
> 	Rachna Dhamija <rachna.w3c@gmail.com>
> Cc: public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org
> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:47:16 +0000
> Subject: RE: iframe tag attack
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> Understand current environment and that OS, network is out and
> compromise of user agent is out for normal tasks.
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> I would like to see additional user agent checks and controls when a
> user agent task is declared "safe" given that user agents operate in a
> less than secure environment.
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> Stated as safe, user expects safe.
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> 	From: Dan Schutzer [mailto:dan.schutzer@fstc.org] 
> 	Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 3:34 PM
> 	To: Doyle, Bill; 'Mike Beltzner'; 'Rachna Dhamija';
> dan.schutzer@fstc.org
> 	Cc: public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org
> 	Subject: RE: iframe tag attack
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> 	Per my draft. This is an issue, but keeping a PC clean of bots
> and other malware is out-of-scope, although I provided some examples of
> things we could do to help defeat this use case.
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> 	From: Doyle, Bill [mailto:wdoyle@mitre.org] 
> 	Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:10 PM
> 	To: Dan Schutzer; Mike Beltzner; Rachna Dhamija
> 	Cc: public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org
> 	Subject: RE: iframe tag attack
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> 	More thoughts.
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> 	"However if a user only downloaded from trusted sites when in
> safe mode (a big if, probably not realistic), then the scenario would
> be defeated"
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> 	User goes out, compromises browser, goes into safe mode, thinks
> they are secure and gives up the farm.
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> 	Looks like it gets back to the expectations that the user agent
> is functioning correctly and not compromised.
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> 	Does "safe" mode also need a user agent provided by a trusted
> source that is restricted to only go to sites that are "trusted"
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> 	Bill 
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> 		From: Dan Schutzer [mailto:dan.schutzer@fstc.org] 
> 		Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:24 AM
> 		To: Doyle, Bill; 'Mike Beltzner'; 'Rachna Dhamija'
> 		Cc: public-wsc-wg@w3.org
> 		Subject: RE: iframe tag attack
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> 		When in safe mode, this threat scenario should be
> defeated. The untrusted site would be rejected; the trusted site would
> be audited to ensure there is sufficient security built-in that their
> web site is unlikely to be compromised. However, when not in the safe
> mode a user would be vulnerable as they can access any site. However if
> a user only downloaded from trusted sites when in safe mode (a big if,
> probably not realistic), then the scenario would be defeated.
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> 		Dan 
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> 		From: public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-wsc-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Doyle, Bill
> 		Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:15 AM
> 		To: Mike Beltzner; Rachna Dhamija
> 		Cc: public-wsc-wg@w3.org
> 		Subject: RE: iframe tag attack
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> 		Thanks -- I pulled out part of your text that I want to
> review against the "safe" browsing modes are being discussed
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> 		iframe is doing things where a site which is
> trusted/identified in one way is loading content form a site that is
> not trusted
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> 		Bill D.
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> 			From: Mike Beltzner
> [mailto:beltzner@mozilla.com] 
> 			Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 1:54 AM
> 			To: Rachna Dhamija
> 			Cc: public-wsc-wg@w3.org; Doyle, Bill
> 			Subject: Re: iframe tag attack
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> 			Using Rachna's unpack (thanks for that!) the
> way I see it ...
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> 			1. is definitely out of scope.
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> 			2. is strange - the fact that the site is
> compromised makes me think this is out of scope, but must any identity
> mechanisms that we do accept as in scope protect users from these types
> of problems?
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> 			3. feels in scope to me, especially if the
> iframe is doing things where a site which is trusted/identified in one
> way is loading content form a site that is not trusted, and then
> presenting it as part of the trusted site. I understand that this is a
> common practice amongst websites, but we need some mechanisms for
> enabling it without enabling this type of compromise as a side effect,
> IMO. Also, we need a pony.
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> 			4. the browser exploits that result in
> downloaded and installed malware are in scope, but once infected, the
> effects of that malware are totally out of scope.
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> 			imo, fwiw, etc.
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> 			cheers,
> 			mike
> 			----- Original Message -----
> 			From: "Rachna Dhamija" <rachna.w3c@gmail.com>
> 			To: "Bill Doyle" <wdoyle@mitre.org>
> 			Cc: public-wsc-wg@w3.org
> 			Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 6:21:18 PM
> (GMT-0500) America/New_York
> 			Subject: Re: iframe tag attack
> 			
> 			On 6/19/07, Doyle, Bill <wdoyle@mitre.org>
> wrote: 
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> 				This enterprising company seems to have
> improved productivity.
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> Growing, Security Company Warns
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> 				Seems to be a user agent issue, is this
> in or out of scope?
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> 			If we unpack the attack, this question might be
> easier to answer:
> 			1) Attacker compromises a web server using
> malware
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> 			2) User visits a legitimate, but compromised,
> website that includes malicious iframe 
> 			3) iframe causes browser to be redirected to a
> site with malicious javascript
> 			4) malicious javascript detects the browser
> type and exploits browser vulnerabilities to download code, which then
> downloads other code (keyloggers, proxy, etc...) 
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> 			We have ruled 1 out of scope.  How about the
> rest?  
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> 			I am hoping that we can use our list of attacks
> (i.e., the threat trees) to come to a better understanding on what is
> in and out of scope.
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> 			Rachna
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