Re: hsecscan v0 (https://github.com/riramar/hsecscan)

Make sense. I'll include your suggestion in my TODO list.
My first goal for the version 0 was construct a simple "platform" and
make it usable.
One of the goals for version 1 is improve the database with users
feedback like yours.
Thanks!

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd say both of those were references not recommendations, the
> recommendation should be something along the lines of:
>
> Ensure cookies protecting important data, such as session tokens, are
> correctly protected (httponly and secure flags).
> Beware session fixation
>
> I may add ensure good entropy on session tokens but that is more in
> session management than cookies.
>
> For the security comment, what would you write about cookies in a test
> report? Check things like OWASP and see what they say but make sure
> whatever you put that it is within the context of the short paragraph
> you've got that you give a realistic comment on the header.
>
> Robin
>
> On 20 October 2015 at 13:14, Ricardo Iramar dos Santos
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks for your advise and opinion.
>> Have you seen the recommendations field?
>> Do you have a suggestion for a better security description?
>>
>>>>   Recommendations: Please at least read these references:
>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-8 and
>>>> https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_Management_Cheat_Sheet#Cookies.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 19 October 2015 at 16:49, Ricardo Iramar dos Santos
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Robin Wood,
>>>>
>>>> This security description came from here
>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-8 so we could ask your
>>>> question to the author.
>>>> But IMO the RFC author is saying the HTTPS is insufficient because of
>>>> attacks like described here
>>>> https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical-sessions/presentation/zheng.
>>>> I don't know any other HTTP State Management Mechanism than cookies
>>>> for web applications accessible by browsers.
>>>
>>> I can see what they are trying to say but the snippet you include in
>>> the results takes it out of context and doesn't really represent their
>>> message. I'd be careful giving results you don't fully understand from
>>> your tools, without the context they could cause problems for users
>>> who don't do additional research.
>>>
>>> Robin
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 18 Oct 2015 03:02, "Ricardo Iramar dos Santos" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I started to develop in python a dumb tool called hsecscan
>>>>>> (https://github.com/riramar/hsecscan). I'll appreciate any feedback.
>>>>>> :)
>>>>>> It's a security scanner for HTTP response headers. Just finished the
>>>>>> usable version 0 with a few features.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ ./hsecscan.py
>>>>>> usage: hsecscan.py [-h] [-P] [-p] [-u URL] [-R]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A security scanner for HTTP response headers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> optional arguments:
>>>>>>   -h, --help         show this help message and exit
>>>>>>   -P, --database     Print the entire response headers database.
>>>>>>   -p, --headers      Print only the enabled response headers from
>>>>>> database.
>>>>>>   -u URL, --URL URL  The URL to be scanned.
>>>>>>   -R, --redirect     Print redirect headers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The code itself is short because I spent most of my time constructing
>>>>>> the sqlite database. You can check the database content on hsecscan.db
>>>>>> (sqlite) or hsecscan.tsv (tab separated value).
>>>>>> Most of the headers came from
>>>>>> https://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-headers.xhtml
>>>>>> and the security description/reference/recommendation came from the
>>>>>> related RFC. I also include all headers from
>>>>>> https://www.owasp.org/index.php/List_of_useful_HTTP_headers. The idea
>>>>>> is keep the database up-to-date and if you want you can add your
>>>>>> headers.
>>>>>> Since this is version 0 I didn't include all the features that I want
>>>>>> and this is my personal TODO list:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Improve output to highlight the required headers
>>>>>> Add option to select the method (GET or POST)
>>>>>> Improve README.md with more information (eg. how to use as a module)
>>>>>> Add options to show only the enabled headers
>>>>>> Add option to select the User-Agent header or set any other header
>>>>>> Add option to detect bad practice (eg. Content-Type without charset=utf-8)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Basically "hsecscan.py -u http://google.com" will do a GET on
>>>>>> google.com over HTTP and retrieve all the headers. For each header
>>>>>> hsecscan.py will search on the database and print the results. If you
>>>>>> select the option "-R" hsecscan.py will also print results for each
>>>>>> redirect response header.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ ./hsecscan.py -u http://google.com
>>>>>> URL: http://www.google.com.br/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=uO8eVtCNA_Cp8weYqLCgAQ
>>>>>> Code: 200
>>>>>> Headers:
>>>>>> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:13:45 GMT
>>>>>> Expires: -1
>>>>>> Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
>>>>>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>>>>> P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See
>>>>>> http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657
>>>>>> for more info."
>>>>>> Server: gws
>>>>>> X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
>>>>>> X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
>>>>>> Set-Cookie:
>>>>>> PREF=ID=1111111111111111:FF=0:TM=1444868025:LM=1444868025:V=1:S=63__QH8d-rawj72t;
>>>>>> expires=Thu, 31-Dec-2015 16:02:17 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com.br
>>>>>> Set-Cookie:
>>>>>> NID=72=CoRBDHqHqS4hFQZX_KM-EihW23odkCZSkndoN2tdH6DJY6lG--ZGRIGTQSZdqhePaWrWlBkwP0DXjt3r4OKLtnaU6ZsrVypT8GqJuN-9YzcDWHfamVpZTWd0b72YuiGNMDHBRH5X;
>>>>>> expires=Fri, 15-Apr-2016 00:13:45 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com.br;
>>>>>> HttpOnly
>>>>>> Accept-Ranges: none
>>>>>> Vary: Accept-Encoding
>>>>>> Connection: close
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Header Field Name: X-XSS-Protection
>>>>>>   Type 1: Personal
>>>>>>   Protocol: http
>>>>>>   Status:
>>>>>>   Reference:
>>>>>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/07/02/ie8-security-part-iv-the-xss-filter.aspx
>>>>>>   Type 2: Response
>>>>>>   Enable: Y
>>>>>>   Required: Y
>>>>>>   HTTPS: N
>>>>>>   Security Description: This header enables the Cross-site scripting
>>>>>> (XSS) filter built into most recent web browsers. It's usually enabled
>>>>>> by default anyway, so the role of this header is to re-enable the
>>>>>> filter for this particular website if it was disabled by the user.
>>>>>> This header is supported in IE 8+, and in Chrome (not sure which
>>>>>> versions). The anti-XSS filter was added in Chrome 4. Its unknown if
>>>>>> that version honored this header.
>>>>>>   Security Reference:
>>>>>> https://www.owasp.org/index.php/List_of_useful_HTTP_headers
>>>>>>   Recommendations: Use "X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block" whenever is
>>>>>> possible (ref.
>>>>>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/01/31/controlling-the-internet-explorer-xss-filter-with-the-x-xss-protection-http-header.aspx).
>>>>>>   CWE: CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page
>>>>>> Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
>>>>>>   CWE URL: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Header Field Name: Set-Cookie
>>>>>>   Type 1: Permanent
>>>>>>   Protocol: http
>>>>>>   Status: standard
>>>>>>   Reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265
>>>>>>   Type 2: Response
>>>>>>   Enable: Y
>>>>>>   Required: N
>>>>>>   HTTPS: N
>>>>>>   Security Description: Cookies have a number of security pitfalls. In
>>>>>> particular, cookies encourage developers to rely on ambient authority
>>>>>> for authentication, often becoming vulnerable to attacks such as
>>>>>> cross-site request forgery. Also, when storing session identifiers in
>>>>>> cookies, developers often create session fixation vulnerabilities.
>>>>>> Transport-layer encryption, such as that employed in HTTPS, is
>>>>>> insufficient to prevent a network attacker from obtaining or altering
>>>>>> a victim's cookies because the cookie protocol itself has various
>>>>>> vulnerabilities. In addition, by default, cookies do not provide
>>>>>> confidentiality or integrity from network attackers, even when used in
>>>>>> conjunction with HTTPS.
>>>>>>   Security Reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-8
>>>>>>   Recommendations: Please at least read these references:
>>>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-8 and
>>>>>> https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_Management_Cheat_Sheet#Cookies.
>>>>>>   CWE: CWE-614: Sensitive Cookie in HTTPS Session Without 'Secure'
>>>>>> Attribute
>>>>>>   CWE URL: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/614.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> I've not ran the tool yet but this feedback on cookies caught my eye. What
>>>>> is ambient authority and why is HTTPS is insufficient to protect a cookie
>>>>> from a network attacker?
>>>>>
>>>>> From this it seems you don't like the idea of cookies being used to manage
>>>>> authenticated sessions so what would you suggest as an alternative?
>>>>>
>>>>> Robin
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Header Field Name: Vary
>>>>>>   Type 1: Permanent
>>>>>>   Protocol: http
>>>>>>   Status: standard
>>>>>>   Reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.1.4
>>>>>>   Type 2: Response
>>>>>>   Enable: N
>>>>>>   Required:
>>>>>>   HTTPS:
>>>>>>   Security Description:
>>>>>>   Security Reference:
>>>>>>   Recommendations:
>>>>>>   CWE:
>>>>>>   CWE URL:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Header Field Name: Server
>>>>>>   Type 1: Permanent
>>>>>>   Protocol: http
>>>>>>   Status: standard
>>>>>>   Reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.4.2
>>>>>>   Type 2: Response
>>>>>>   Enable: Y
>>>>>>   Required: N
>>>>>>   HTTPS: N
>>>>>>   Security Description: Overly long and detailed Server field values
>>>>>> increase response latency and potentially reveal internal
>>>>>> implementation details that might make it (slightly) easier for
>>>>>> attackers to find and exploit known security holes.
>>>>>>   Security Reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.4.2
>>>>>>   Recommendations: An origin server SHOULD NOT generate a Server field
>>>>>> containing needlessly fine-grained detail and SHOULD limit the
>>>>>> addition of subproducts by third parties.
>>>>>>   CWE: CWE-200: Information Exposure
>>>>>>   CWE URL: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Header Field Name: X-Frame-Options
>>>>>>   Type 1: Permanent
>>>>>>   Protocol: http
>>>>>>   Status: informational
>>>>>>   Reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7034
>>>>>>   Type 2: Response
>>>>>>   Enable: Y
>>>>>>   Required: Y
>>>>>>   HTTPS: N
>>>>>>   Security Description: The use of "X-Frame-Options" allows a web page
>>>>>> from host B to declare that its content (for example, a button, links,
>>>>>> text, etc.) must not be displayed in a frame (<frame> or <iframe>) of
>>>>>> another page (e.g., from host A). This is done by a policy declared in
>>>>>> the HTTP header and enforced by browser implementations.
>>>>>>   Security Reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7034
>>>>>>   Recommendations:  In 2009 and 2010, many browser vendors
>>>>>> ([Microsoft-X-Frame-Options] and [Mozilla-X-Frame-Options]) introduced
>>>>>> the use of a non-standard HTTP [RFC2616] header field
>>>>>> "X-Frame-Options" to protect against clickjacking. Please check here
>>>>>> https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking_Defense_Cheat_Sheet
>>>>>> what's the best option for your case.
>>>>>>   CWE: CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure
>>>>>>   CWE URL: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/693.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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