Re: [DISCUSSION] turn off OOTB JWT authorization/SSO functionality

[Michael Brohl]

Thank you all,




Regards,

Michael

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10814



Am 21.01.19 um 11:41 schrieb Dennis Balkir:

if there are no objections I will enhance the patch in [1] to make this configurable and switched off as default.

+1 for off as default

Am 21.01.19 um 10:03 schrieb Taher Alkhateeb:

+1 to default off

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 7:25 PM Michael Brohl <michael.br...@ecomify.de> wrote:

No, we are mainly discussing if we should turn off the JWT functionality

in the default setting and what could be done to make the current
implementation more secure / fail proof.


Am 19.01.19 um 16:54 schrieb Shi Jinghai:

I've just reviewed the code of JWT implements. Sorry for my bad English, I'm a bit lost, are we discussing which one is more secure, the tomcat session or JWT?

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发送时间: 2019年1月19日 19:58
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主题: [DISCUSSION] turn off OOTB JWT authorization/SSO functionality

Hi all,

during my work in [1] I realized that the OOTB JWT authorization /
single sign on is switched on by default. The logic to retrieve the

or security.properties.


the code).

I think we should secure this so that this cannot be done in an OOTB
setting with the following additions:

1. make it configurable through a property which is initially turned
off. I think thi is better than commenting the preprocessor in/out


2. don't use a default secret key if none is provided. The

he is doing then.

3. don't proceed if no secret key can be found (do not attempt a login
using the JWT)


I think that we should turn this feature off by default for the
following reasons:

1. it opens up a security hole if the user does not remove the
checkJWTLogin preprocessor (see above)

2. the functionality to have a single sign on between two OFBiz

for this special case and cannot be used for standard single sign on
scenarios with other systems.

3. if it is not used, it will still try to read the authorization
header, key etc. *on every request*


What do think?

Regards,

Michael


[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10814

[2] https://jwt.io/

[3] http://jwtbuilder.jamiekurtz.com/

secret key uses a default if there is no configuration in SystemProperty This makes it easy to prepare a JWT (e.g. by using [2] or [3]) and login using a guessed userLoginId and this token (which can be retrieved from because it can be better integrated in (custom) configuration mechanisms. user/administrator must explicitly set a secret key and should know what instances will only be used in rare cases (I think). It is only designed

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