[OpenID] Association poisoning

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Sun Mar 8 17:20:11 UTC 2009


Andrew Arnott wrote:
> If you write an OpenID relying party library or custom implementation, you
> might want to review a post I just wrote on a potential security hole I've
> never heard anyone else talk about:
> 
> http://blog.nerdbank.net/2009/03/openid-association-poisoning.html

So, just to be clear, the flaw here is employing a simple assoc_handle 
to assoc secret mapping without considering which OP belongs to the 
assoc_handle?

That is a pretty serious problem. Have you found any RP implementations 
that *are* vulnerable?




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