Enforcing protection at the browser side has recently become a popular approach for securing web authentication. Though interesting, existing attempts in the literature only address specific classes of attacks, and thus fall short of providing robust foundations to reason on web authentication security. In this paper we provide such foundations, by introducing a novel notion of web session integrity, which allows us to capture many existing attacks and spot some new ones. We then propose FF+, a security-enhanced model of a web browser that provides a full-fledged and provably sound enforcement of web session integrity. We leverage our theory to develop SessInt, a prototype extension for Google Chrome implementing the security mechanisms formalized in FF+. SessInt provides a level of security very close to FF+, while keeping an eye at usability and user experience.

Provably Sound Browser-Based Enforcement of Web Session Integrity

BUGLIESI, Michele;CALZAVARA, STEFANO;FOCARDI, Riccardo;KHAN, WILAYAT;TEMPESTA, MAURO
2014-01-01

Abstract

Enforcing protection at the browser side has recently become a popular approach for securing web authentication. Though interesting, existing attempts in the literature only address specific classes of attacks, and thus fall short of providing robust foundations to reason on web authentication security. In this paper we provide such foundations, by introducing a novel notion of web session integrity, which allows us to capture many existing attacks and spot some new ones. We then propose FF+, a security-enhanced model of a web browser that provides a full-fledged and provably sound enforcement of web session integrity. We leverage our theory to develop SessInt, a prototype extension for Google Chrome implementing the security mechanisms formalized in FF+. SessInt provides a level of security very close to FF+, while keeping an eye at usability and user experience.
2014
Proceedings of the 27th Computer Security Foundations Symposium
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